Zhenyu (James) Kong
Ph.D., Professor
Director, SMART Lab

Grado Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech

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201 Durham Hall

1145 Perry Street

Blacksburg, VA 24061

Email: zkong@vt.edu

Phone: 540-231-9762

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Education

• Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004

• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 1995

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 1993

Research Areas

Main Area: Manufacturing Systems Engineering

• Sensing and analytics for smart manufacturing

• Modeling, synthesis, and diagnosis for large and complex manufacturing systems

• Data mining and machine learning for manufacturing and service applications