Shen Yin holds the position of DNV Endowed Professor within the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NTNU. He obtained a Dr.-Ing. and an MSc. from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He currently serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
Research interests:
- Fault diagnosis/prognosis and fault-tolerance strategy
- System and control theory
- Machine learning/data-driven aided optimization, diagnosis, and control
- Reliability, maintenance, safety, and security for technical process
- Applications on cyber-physical systems, health diagnosis/medical technology, sustainable energy, etc.
Selected membership/board:
- IEEE Fellow (class of 2023)
- Elected full member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society
- Founder-Chair of the Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society on Data-Driven Control and Monitoring (2013-2016)
- AdCom member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2013-2016)
- Member of IFAC TC 6.4. Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Technical Processes
- Technical Program/General Chair for IEEE ISIE2014, ICICIP2016, IEEE IECON2017, IEEE ONCON2023, etc.
Selected editorial work:
- Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Discover Artificial Intelligence (Springer Nature)
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, etc.
- Guest Editor for Proceedings of the IEEE (2016), IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2016), Information Science (2016), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (2019), IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (2023), IEEE Transactions of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (2023)
Selected awards/honors:
- NAMUR Award for "Process Automation" from the User Association of Automation Technology in Process Industries (2012)
- Young Scientist Award of the International Union of Radio Science (2014)
- Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics (2015)
- One of the 19 Hottest Researchers by Clarivate Analytics (2017)
- Best Poster Paper Award, 11th CCA SAFEPROCESS (2019)
- China Youth Science and Technology Award (2020)
- Outstanding Paper Award, International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (2022)
- Highly Cited Researcher in the Engineering field by Clarivate (2016-2022)
- Top 2% Scientists Worldwide by Stanford University (2019-2022)
- For contributions to fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of complex systems, he has been elected as a Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
