How Industrial AI Will Advance Smart Manufacturing

Description

Dr. Jay Lee, Clark Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Industrial AI Center at the University of Maryland College Park and a member of the MLC’s Board of Governors, will discuss the development of industrial AI and its impact on smart manufacturing systems.
Key areas of discussion will be:

  • Advances in data-centric technology, tools, and talents for the development of Industrial AI
  • Trends in data-centric industrial systems and their impact on productivity, with examples from different industries.
  • Advances in industrial AI and non-traditional machine learning including topological data analytics, stream-of-quality (SoQ) based data analytics, similarity-based machine learning, domain adaptation, and transfer learning for highly connected and complex industrial systems
  • Training of AI-augmented talents and skillsets in smart manufacturing

Speaker Bio:

Prior to joining the University of Maryland, Dr. Lee was the founding director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems.

He is a member of Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Production of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Board of Governors of the Manufacturing Leadership Council, a member of the Board of Trustees of MTConnect, as well as a senior advisor to McKinsey.

Dr. Lee is a fellow of ASME, SME, PHM Society, and ISEAM. He was selected as one of 30 Visionaries in Smart Manufacturing by SME in Jan. 2016, among 20 most influential professors in Smart Manufacturing in June 2020, and received the SME Eli Whitney Productivity Award and SME/NAMRC S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award in 2022. His book on Industrial AI was published by Springer in 2020.