Professor Jay Lee, Professor Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, is founding director of the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) as well as a founding director of Industrial AI Center. He was on leave to serve as vice chairman and board member of Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn) during 2019-2021. Currently, he serves as member of the Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Production of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Board of Governors of the Manufacturing for the National Association of Manufacturing (NAM) Executive Leadership Board.

In addition to his position as Advisory Director of the IMS Center at the University of Michigan, Professor Jun Ni also served as the Shien-Ming (Sam) Wu Collegiate Professor of Manufacturing Science, Director of the S.M. Wu Manufacturing Research Center, Deputy Director of the NSF-Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Co-Director, Multi-Campus Center for Industrial AI.

In addition to being Director of the Center for Intelligent Maintenance systems, Dr. Djurdjanovic also serves as Director of the Industrial AI Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Djurdjanovic’s research seeks to make manufacturing systems, rotating machinery, and automobiles more independent and durable by isolating abnormal behavior and autonomously compensating for it. His findings have been employed by Ford Motor Co. and General Motors, ETAS Inc. and Bosch.