Yaping Wang, Ph.D.
Instructional Associate Professor, Director of Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Program1. Quality engineering in healthcare: Statistical quality control, Lean, and continuous improvement methods to enhance healthcare processes.
2. Engineering education & student well-being: Experiential and project-based instruction, flipped classrooms, and AI-driven lifestyle interventions to improve teaching effectiveness and student mental health.
3. Student success & outreach: Developing seamless transfer pathways from community colleges and engaging in outreach to increase the visibility of Industrial & Systems Engineering among high school and community college students.
4. Computational optimization: Design and analysis of algorithms for rigid point set registration, electricity power systems, and large-scale complex systems.
ISE Outstanding Instructor Award, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, UH, 2025
IISE Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, U.S. South Central Region (Region 5), 2022, 2024
Teaching Excellence Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2021
Nominee and attendee, INFORMS Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, Phoenix, AZ, 2018
Industrial Engineering Shiny Nut Award (for demonstrating the most student engagement throughout the year), IISE Student Chapter of UH, 2017.
Graduate Teaching Fellow, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2015.
Second Best Poster Award (on paper “Flexible Implementation of Power System Corrective Topology Control”), IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, 2015.
Nominee and attendee, INFORMS Doctoral Student Colloquium, San Francisco, CA, 2014.
Graduate Student Presentation Grant, Association of Former and the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies, Texas A&M University, 2014.
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M, 2013.
Nominee and attendee, NextProf Future Faculty Workshops, The University of Michigan, 2013.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship in pursuing Master degree at Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Texas A&M, 2009 -2010
Faculty Advisor, IISE Student Chapter at UH, 2018 - Present
Faculty Advisor, INFORMS Student Chapter at UH, 2017-2018
Selected Publications
- Y. Wang, E. Moreno-Centeno, Y. Ding, “Matching Misaligned Two-resolution Metrology Data", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 14 no. 1, pp. 222-237, 2017.
- D. Payman, Y. Wang, G. Gurrala, E. Moreno-Centeno, M. Kezunovic, “Flexible implementation of power system corrective topology control", Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 128, pp. 79-89, 2015.
- W. Wang, H. Wang, B. Wang, Y. Wang, and J. Wang, “Energy-aware and self-adaptive anomaly detection scheme based on network tomography in mobile ad hoc networks", Information Sciences, vol. 220 pp. 580-602, 2013.
- Y. Wang, X. Zhou, S. Yan, F. Zhang, “Analysis and Simulation of Scheduling Algorithm called Even Service Sequence-based Deficit Round-Robin", Journal of Computer Applications, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 2904-2907, 2005. (In Chinese)