Zhenyu Kong
Professor
Email: zkong@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-9762
Introduction
Dr. Zhenyu (James) Kong is currently a professor with the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2013, he had been a faculty member with the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University since 2006. He also worked as a senior research engineer in Dimensional Control Systems Inc., Troy, Michigan, from 2004 to 2006. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial and System Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, and his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1993 and 1995, respectively. His research focuses on sensing and analytics for advanced manufacturing, and modeling/synthesis/diagnosis for large and complex manufacturing systems. His research contributions have been recognized by six Best Paper awards in IISE annual conference, INFORMS annual meeting, and IISE Transactions, and featured four times by IISE magazines. Kong’s external research funding amounts to over $10M with personal share of $3.7M sponsored by the federal agencies such as NSF, DoE, and DoD, as well as industries. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has been honored with several awards including the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence in 2019, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech; APM Outstanding Faculty Award for 2017-2018, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech; and Halliburton Outstanding Faculty Award in 2013, College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, Oklahoma State University.
Most Recent Publications
- Liu, C., Kapoor, A., VanOsdol, J., Ektate, K., Kong, Z.J., Ranjan, A., 2018, “A Spectral Fiedler Field-based Contrast Platform for Imaging of Nanoparticles in Colon Tumor,” Scientific Reports (accepted).
- Trivedi, M., Jee, J., Silva, S., Blomgren, C., Pontinha, V.M., Dixon, D.L., Van Tassel, B., Bortner, M.J., Williams, C., Gilmer, E., Haring, A.P., Halper, J., Johnson, B.N., Kong, Z.J., Halquist, M.S., Rocheleau, P.F., Long, T.E., Roper, T., and Wijesinghe, D.S., 2018, “Additive manufacturing of pharmaceuticals for precision medicine applications: A review of the promises and perils in implementation,” Additive Manufacturing (in press).
- Liu, J., Liu, C., Bai, Y., Rao, P., Kong, Z.J., and Williams, C., 2018, “Layer-wise Spatial Modeling of Porosity in Additive Manufacturing,” IISE Transactions (accepted).
- Liu, J.P., Jin, R. and Kong, Z. 2018, "Wafer quality monitoring using spatial Dirichlet process based mixed-effect profile modeling scheme," Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 48, Part A, pp. 21-32.
- Sun, H., Rao, P., Kong, Z., Deng, X., and Jin, R., 2017, “Functional Quantitative and Qualitative Models for Quality Modeling in a Fused Deposition Modeling Process,” IEEE Trans. Journal of Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 393-403.
Go to Journal Publications and Conference Papers on my website for other publications.