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Dr. Jay Lee is Vice Chairman and Board Member of Foxconn Technology Group. He is also Ohio Eminent Scholar and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor, and Univ. Distinguished Professor at the Univ. of Cincinnati and is founding director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (www.imscenter.net) which consists of the Univ. of Cincinnati (lead institution), the Univ. of Michigan, and the Univ. of Texas-Austin. Since its inception in 2001, the Center has been supported by over 100 global companies. IMS was selected as the most economically impactful I/UCRC in the NSF Economic Impact Study Report in 2012 which reported that the Center has delivered to its members a combined benefit of $847.6 million in cost savings, and that the Center returned $238.30 of benefits for every $1 invested by the National Science Foundation.
He is also the Founding Director of Industrial AI Center (www.iaicentrer.com). He was selected to be one of the 30 Visionaries in Smart Manufacturing in U.S. by SME in Jan. 2016. He has also been selected as 20 most influential professors in smart manufacturing by SME Smart Manufacturing Magazine in 2020. He also serves as senior advisor to McKinsey & Company as well as a member of the Global Future Council on Production of the World Economics Council (WEF).
Previously, he served as director for product development and manufacturing at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) as well as program directors for a number of programs at NSF including the Engineering Research Centers Program, the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program, and Materials Processing, and Manufacturing Program, etc., etc. He also served on the Board on National Research Council (NRC) Manufacturing and Engineering Design (BMAED) during 1999-2005 as well as a number of NRC Study and Assessment Panels since 1999. He is a frequently invited speaker and has delivered over 260 keynote and plenary speeches at major international conferences. He is a Fellow of ASME, SME, PHM (Prognostics and Health Management), as well as a founding fellow of International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM).
He has received a number of awards including the Prognostics Innovation Award at NI Week by National Instruments in 2012, NSF Alex Schwarzkopf Technological Innovation Prize in 2014, MFPT (Machinery Failure Prevention Technology Society) Jack Frarey Award in 2014, and PICMET Medal of Excellence in 2016.
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