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Dr. Linkan Bian is the Thomas B. & Terri L. Nusz Endowed Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU) and currently serves as a Program Director in the Advanced Manufacturing (AM) cluster at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Beijing University. His primary research focuses on additive manufacturing process modeling, AI/ML integration into manufacturing systems, and healthcare analytics. Key areas include process-structure-property relationships, defect detection via thermal imaging, and medical imaging analysis for cancer diagnostics.
Dr. Bian has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers and secured federal funding from NSF, NIH, DoD, and industry partners. He received the IISE Outstanding Young Investigator Award and multiple Best Paper Awards. He serves as Associate Editor for IISE and ASME journals and previously led the IISE Quality Control and Reliability Engineering Division. His research lab, the CAVS Additive Lab, pioneers innovations in additive manufacturing quality control and AI-driven medical applications.
Current NSF duties involve advancing advanced manufacturing research initiatives while maintaining MSU academic responsibilities. His work bridges manufacturing engineering with interdisciplinary applications in cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and healthcare decision-support systems.
