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Daniel Apley

Daniel Apley

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences,  Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Quality Technology
E-mail:  apley @ iems.northwestern.edu
Phone:  (847) 491-2397
Fax:  (847) 491-8005
Office:  Tech C150
Website:  http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~apley/

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, 1997
M.S., University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering, 1995
M.S., University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, 1992
B.S., University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, 1990


Field(s) of Expertise/Research Area(s)

Statistical modeling and analysis of engineering systems, statistical learning and data mining, quality engineering and six sigma, manufacturing process diagnosis and control


Biography

I am an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Northwestern in 2003, I served on the faculty of Texas A&M University for five years. My research interests lie at the interface of engineering modeling, statistical analysis, and data mining, with applications that include quantitative six sigma process improvement and manufacturing variation reduction. Much of my work in these application areas is geared towards processes in which one is inundated with data, in particular those that are pervaded by measurement and automation technology. I received an NSF CAREER award for my research and teaching in this area in 2001. I am a past chair of the Quality, Statistics & Reliability Section of INFORMS and a past Director of the Manufacturing and Design Engineering Program at Northwestern. I served as an Associate Editor for Technometrics from 2002-2009, and I currently serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Quality Technology.


Research

Shan, X. and Apley, D. W., 2008, Blind Identification of Manufacturing Variation Patterns by Combining Source Separation Criteria, Technometrics, 50(3), pp. 332-343.

Apley, D. W., and Zhang, F., 2007, Identifying and Visualizing Nonlinear Variation Patterns in Multivariate Manufacturing Data, IIE Transactions, 9(6), pp. 691-701.

Apley, D. W., Liu, J. and Chen, W., 2006, Understanding the Effects of Model Uncertainty in Robust Design With Computer Experiments, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 128 (4), 945-958.

Daniel Apley, J.B. Kim, 2004, Cautious Control of Industrial ProcessVariability with Uncertain Input and Disturbance Model Parameters,Technometrics, 46 (2), 188-199

Daniel Apley, H. Y. Lee , 2003, Identifying Spatial VariationPatterns in Multivariate Manufacturing Processes: A Blind SeparationApproach, Technometrics, 45 (3),220-234


Honors and Awards