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Dr. Tongdan Jin
Assistant Professor in Systems Engineering Program
Math & Physical Science Department
Texas A&M International University
5201 University Boulevard
Laredo, TX 78041
Phone:(956)326-2582
E-mail:tjin@tamiu.edu



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1. General Information

Dr. Tongdan Jin is an assistant professor of systems engineering program at Texas A&M International University(TAMIU) since 2006. He has been working with colleagues to successfully develop and implement a new BS Systems Engineering program at TAMIU. He also serves the director of Systems and Computation Lab.

Prio to TAMIU, he held a Reliability Engineer position at Teradyne Inc.,Boston, MA for five years. Teradyne is a world leading manufacturer in providing semiconductor testing solutions for high-speed digital, mixed signal, and memory devices. He worked with cross-functional teams from marketing, design, manufacturing, and support departments to enhance product reliability and improve customer satisfactions world-wide.

In 2007, he was awarded the Chunhui Fellowship, a prestigious award to young oversea Chinese scholars, by The Ministry of Education of China. He conducted research projects with professor in the School of Microelectronics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) during the summer 2007. He also assisted local professors in developing new engineering courses.

During his graduate study at Rutgers University, he accomplished multiple research projects in the Quality and Reliability Engineering Center, a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center.

Among the recognitions and awards received are: (1) Chunhui Research Fellowship; (2) University Fellowship at Rutgers University; (3) University Fellowship at The Ohio State University; (4) Outstanding Master Thesis Award at Beijing Institute of Technology; (5) First-Class Scholarship Recipients at Shanxi University of Science and Technology.

He is the member of IEEE and INFORMS . His research interests include, but not limited to:

1) Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for complex systems.
1) Microelectronics fabrications, reliability testing and quality controls.
2) Probabilistic reliability modeling and optimizations.
3) Applied operations research in supply chain and engineering systems.

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2. Education

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3. Teaching in Fall 2008

  1. MATH 1324: Business Math I

  2. ENGR1204:Engineering Graphics I

  3. PHYS1170:Survey of Physical Sciences

  4. PHYS1101:Physics Lab

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4. Research

Journal Articles

  1. B. Janamanchi, T. Jin, "Reliability growth vs. HASS cost for product manufacturing with fast-to-market requirement", International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, (accepted with revision), 2009.
  2. T. Jin, "Hierarchical variance decomposition of system reliability with duplicated components," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, (appear in March 2009).
  3. P. Wang. T. Jin, "Parametric uncertainty analysis of complex system reliability by Monte Carlo simulations," International Journal of Performability Engineering, Jan 2009, pp. 197-199.
  4. T. Jin, L. Gonigunta,"Approximate Weibull renewal functions under reliability growth using Laplace transforms,"Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (under revision), 2008.
  5. T. Jin, H. Liao," Spare parts inventory control considering stochastic growth of an installed base," Computers & Industrial Engineering , 2008 (in press).
  6. T. Jin, D. Coit," Unbiased variance estimates for system reliability estimate using block decompositions," IEEE Transactions on Reliability , vol. 57, 2008, pp.458-464.
  7. T. Jin, L. Gonigunta, "Weibull and gamma renewal approximation using generalized exponential functions," Communication in Statistics-Simulation and Computation ,2008 (in press).
  8. T. Jin, H. Liao, P. Wang, “Risk-Free based MTBF optimization for electronic product design considering component and non-component failures," International Journal of Product Development Vol. 5, No.1/2, 2008, pp. 93 - 108 .
  9. D. Coit, T. Jin, N. Wattanapongsakorn, "System optimization considering component reliability estimation uncertainty: multi-criteria approach," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 53, no.3, 2004, pp. 369-380.
  10. J. Ramirez-Marquez, D. Coit, T. Jin, "Test plan allocation to sinimize system reliability estimation variability," International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, vol. 11, no. 3, September 2004, pp. 257-272.
  11. T. Jin, D. Coit, " Approximating network reliability estimates using linear and quadratic unreliability of minimal cuts ," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 82, no. 1, October 2003, pp. 41-48.
  12. T. Jin, D. Coit, " Variance of system reliability estimation with arbitrarily repeated components ," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 50, no. 4, December 2001, pp. 409-413.
  13. D. Coit, T. Jin, " Prioritization of system reliability prediction improvements," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 50, no. 1, March 2001, pp. 17-25.
  14. D. Coit, T. Jin, " Gamma distribution parameter estimation for field data with missing times,” IIE Transactions, vol. 32, no. 12, Dec 2000, pp. 1161-1166.


Conference Proceedings/Presentations

  1. F. Belkhouche, T. Jin, C. Sung, "Plane collision course detection between moving objects by transformation of coordinates," 2008 Multi-conference on Systems and Control, San Antonio, TX, Sept 3-5, 2008.
  2. K. Bendjilali, F. Belkhouche, T. Jin, "Exponential navigation functions with a learning algorithm," American Conference on Automation, Seattle, WA, June 11-13, 2008, pp. 1232-1237,
  3. F. Belkhouche, F. Wu, R. Lin, T. Jin, "Multi-observer three points tracking law with networked observers," Int'l Conference on Automations, Robotics and Control Systsems, Orlando, FL, July 7-10 2008, pp. 110-115
  4. Sheng Hua, Xiulan Cheng, Tongdan Jin,"A Novel Advanced Process Control for Semiconductor Manufacturing: Dual Proximate Inverse Feedback Control,", IEEE ASMC 2008, May 5-7, Boston, MA, USA.
  5. Tongdan Jin, Balaj Janamanchi, "Approximating Weibull RF using exponential functions for decreasing failure rates,"INFORMS Texas, April 18-19, 2008, College Stations, Texasm USA
  6. Balaj Janamanchi, Tongdan Jin, "Zero Inventory or Just-about-zero Inventory", INFORMS Texas, April 18-19, 2008, College Stations, Texas
  7. Tongdan Jin, Jason Liao, Jianbin Du,"Low cost or market shift drives manufacturing outsource-A case study," 13th Annual Conference for “Western Hemispheric Trade: Facing New Global Challenges.” April 2-4,2008, Laredo, TX, USA
  8. Tongdan Jin, Shu Xia, Xiulan Cheng, "Managing ATE maintenance to reduce semiconductor testing cost". China Testing Conference, May 21-23, 2008, Suzhou, China
  9. Haitao Liao, Peng Wang, Tongdan Jin, "Spare parts management considering new sales," Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, January 28-31, 2008
  10. Sheng Hua, Xiulan Cheng, Tongdan Jin,"A Novel Advanced Process Control for Semiconductor Manufacturing: Twin Proximate Inverse System Feedback Control,” Agilent Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference China, Oct 26, 2007, Beijing.
  11. Shu Xia, Tongdan Jin, "Parallel edge search technique for high speed low cost timing measurements on ATE platform," Beijing Advanced Semiconductor Technology Symposium, Oct, 19-21,2007, Beijing, China.
  12. Tongdan Jin, Fethi Belkhouche, Chen-Han Sung, "A Consolidated Approach to Minimize Semiconductor Production Loss Due to Unscheduled ATE Downtime”, CASE 2007, Sept, 21-25, 2007, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, pp. 188-193.
  13. Fethi Belkhouche, Tongdan Jin, K. Bendjilali, "Exponential Navigation Functions with a Learning Algorithm," Submitting to IROS 2007, San Diego, CA.
  14. Tongdan Jin, "Inventory Optimization for Repairable Products Considering Reliability Growth and Increased Field Population," accepted for IERC 2007 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  15. Tongdan Jin, Haitao Liao, "Failure Time Based Reliability Growth in Product Development and Manufacturing," RAMS2007, January 24-27, Orlando,FL,USA, pp.489-493
  16. Tongdan Jin, “HASS or Non-HASS for printed circuit board manufacturing-how to breakeven in MTBF vs. cost," Annual INFORMS 2006, Nov. 6-8, Pittsburg, PA, USA.
  17. Tongdan Jin, Haitao Liao, Zhenhua Xiong, Chen-Han Sung, "Computerized reparable inventory management with reliability growth and increased product population”, Conference of Automation Science Engineering (CASE 2006), Oct, 8-9, 2006, Shanghai, China, pp. 336-341
  18. Tongdan Jin, Shu Xia, “Estimate Measurement Uncertainty in Device Test Due to ATE Calibration Variations”, SEMICON China 2006 SEMI Packaging and Testing Symposium, March 21-193, 2006, Shanghai, China.
  19. Tongdan Jin, Peng Wang, Qiyu Huang, “A practical MTBF estimate for PCB design considering component and non-component failures”, Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2006, Jan 23-26, 2006, Newport Beach, CA, USA, pp. 604-610
  20. Tongdan Jin, Zhenghua Xiong, “Minimize System Failure Rate Considering Variations of Component Lifetime,” 2005 International Conference on Asian Green Electronics (AGEC 2005), March 15-17, Shanghai, China.
  21. Peng Wang, Tongdan Jin, Haitao Liao, Jiachen Liu, “Regression Model for Parameters Related to Bayesian Reliability Inference procedures”, 2005 International Conference on Asian Green Electronics (AGEC 2005), March 15-17, Shanghai, China.
  22. Tongdan Jin, Shu Xia, “Calibrate Digital Signal Skew for Semiconductor Testing Systems using Small Number of Channels”, SEMICON China 2005 SEMI Technology Symposium (STS), March 18-19, 2005, Shanghai, China.
  23. Tongdan Jin, Peter Su, “Estimate system reliability variability based on six-sigma criteria considering component operational uncertainties”, Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2005, Jan 24-17, 2005, Alexandria, VA, USA, pp. 214-219.
  24. David Coit, Tongdan Jin, "Multi-criteria Optimization: maximization of system reliability estimate and Minimization of the estimated variance." In Proceedings of the European Saefty and Reliability International Conference (ESREL), 2001.
  25. Tongdan Jin and David Coit, “Allocation of Component Test Units to Minimize Reliability Estimate Variance-A Bayesian Approach”, INFORMS, November 5-8 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
  26. Tongdan Jin and David Coit, “System Reliability Sensitivity Measures”, Proceedings of the Eighth Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), May 1999, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
  27. Peng Wang, Tongdan Jin and David Coit, “Repairable System Reliability: Planning and Assessment Tools”, Quality and Reliability Engineering Center Report, QRE report number 99-2, October 1999, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.
  28. David Coit and Tongdan Jin, “System Reliability Models with Uncertain Component Reliability Estimates”, Quality and Reliability Engineering Center Report, QRE report number 98-2, October 1998, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.

Invited Talk/Seminar

  1. Tongdan Jin, “Calibrating digital skew-a step for making iPod from beach sand," LBV Room 208, Texas A&M International University, Nov 13, 2008
  2. Tongdan Jin, “Exponential Approximation to Weibull Renewal Functions with Decreasing Failure Rate," Jernigan Library Room 302, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, April 4, 2008
  3. Tongdan Jin, Shu Xia “Estimate Digital Channel Skew Based on Down Sampling Technique," Conference Rom 301, School of Microlectronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, July 2, 2007

Ph.D. Dissertation

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5. Graduate Assistants


Madhu kilari
Graduate Student in MBA program
Texas A&M International University
E-mail:madhu@students.tamiu.edu
Education: B.S. in Information & Communication Technology, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology.
Work Experience: software engineer for 2 years in Infosys to conduct automation testing in QTP 9.2 on Microsoft OEM project modules.

Research Interests: experienced in C/C++, Matlab, and Cplex.
Current Position: Research Assistant (9/1/2008-current).


Ying Yu
Ph.D. visiting Student at Texas A&M International University
Education: Ph.D. candicate in College of Economics and Management at Southeast University,Nanjing, China
Work Experience: senior software engineer at Nanjing ZTE Institute, (2001-2003)

Research Interests: operations research and supply chain management
Current Position: Research Assistant (11/1/2008-present).


Jianing He
Visiting Ph.D. candidate at TAMIU
E-mail: hejia_1982@163.com
Education: 1) BS in Transportation Engineering, SCUT, China; 2) MS in Transportation Planning and Management, SCUT, China

Research Interests: experienced in C/C++, Matlab, and Cplex. Foucus on solutions to optimal cost management and risk control problems in supply network.
Current Position: Summer Research Associate (6/1/2008 to 8/31/2008)


Jiefang Li
Visiting Ph.D. candidate at TAMIU
E-mail: twotwolee@gmail.com
Education: PhD Studnet in the School of Business, South China University of Technology, China

Research Interests: Corporate management and culture
Current Position: Summer Research Associate (6/1/2008 to 8/31/2008)

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Lakshmana Surendra Gonigunta
Graduate Student in Management Information Systems
Texas A&M International University
E-mail:glsurendra@gmail.com
Passed Education: BS in Electronics and Communications, JNTU, India, June 2006
Position at TAMIU: Graduate Assistant (9/1/2007-5/31/2008).
Current Employer: Clear thought solutions LLC, Cary, North Carolina (9/1/2008-present)

Research Interests:
Lakshmana is experienced in programming using C, Java and SQL. He also has good leadership capabilities in managing multi-task projects and exhibits strong oral and written communication skills as demonstrated in his senior design project etc.

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7. External Collaborators (alphabetic)

Great time to work with these beatiful minds !

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8. Funding Opportunities

  1. Co-PI, "MRI: Acquisition of a Low-Field NMR for Research/Education at Texas A&M International University,",NSF(#0820919), 9/1/2008-8/31/2011,$99,210.00.
  2. PI, "Reliability Growth Prediction Considering Surfaced and Latent Failures",Sponsor:TAMIU Research Grant, 9/2008-8/2009.
  3. PI, "Solar Energy Pains Laredo Green", Sponsor:Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development, 6/2008-8/2008.
  4. PI, "Chunhui Research Project", Sponsor: Education Office of Consulate General of People's Republic of China in the USA, 6/2007-8/2007.
  5. PI, "Optimal Subsystem-Level Reliability Growth Test for Fast-to-Market Products", TAMIU Research Grant, 9/2007-8/2008.
  6. PI, "Inventory Optimization for Repairable Products Considering Reliability Growth and the Demand Increase,” TAMIU Research Grant, 1/2007-8/2007.

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10. Confernece/Journal Links

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Last revised 11/1/2008
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