Rate My Professor Yi Wang

Yi Wang is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Sciences at Auburn University at Montgomery. He earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from West Virginia University in 2003, with a doctoral dissertation titled 'Fast Wavelet Collocation Methods for Second Kind Integral Equations on Polygons.' He previously obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China, in 1997, with a dissertation on 'On the Reliability and Maintainability of Railway Locomotives,' and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution in 1991. Dr. Wang joined Auburn University at Montgomery in August 2006 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010, Professor in 2015, served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from 2017 to 2019, and has been Chair of the Department of Mathematics since 2020. Prior roles include Assistant Professor at Fairmont State University from 2003 to 2006, Research/Teaching Assistant at West Virginia University from 2001 to 2003 and North Dakota State University from 1999 to 2001, Lecturer at Southwest Jiaotong University from 1997 to 1999, and Visiting Professor at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, from May to August 2014.

Dr. Wang's research interests focus on machine learning, optimization, and operations research, particularly with applications to scheduling, disassembly line balancing, and container terminal management. His publications have appeared in journals including Complex & Intelligent Systems, Engineering Optimization, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Soft Computing, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, and Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. Representative works include 'Decomposition approaches for parallel machine scheduling of step-deteriorating jobs to minimize total tardiness and energy consumption' (2021, Complex & Intelligent Systems), 'Logic-based benders decomposition for gantry crane scheduling with transferring position constraints in a rail-road container terminal' (2021, Engineering Optimization), 'On the end-of-life states-oriented multi-objective disassembly line balancing problem' (2020, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing), 'An improved scatter search algorithm for the corridor allocation problem considering corridor width' (2020, Soft Computing), 'Dispatching rules for scheduling twin automated gantry cranes in an automated rail-road container terminal' (2020, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering), and 'Gantry crane scheduling in intermodal rail-road container terminals' (2018, International Journal of Production Research). His scholarship has accumulated over 1,700 citations on Google Scholar. Awards include the 2017 AUM Warhawk Spirit Award, the 2013-2014 Research Award of the School of Sciences at Auburn University at Montgomery, and the Endowed Doctoral Teaching Fellowship from West Virginia University in 2002-2003. Dr. Wang serves as reviewer editor for Frontiers in Mathematics of Computation and Data Science since 2015 and editorial board member for Frontiers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics since 2017.