Human-centric AI & Intelligent Manufacturing Lab
at Virginia Tech

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• 09/2025 - [Talk] Dr. Zhong presented our lab’s research on "Towards AI‑enabled Human‑centric Smart Manufacturing" at the ENGR 1014 Undergraduate Seminar Series.

  Thanks for the invitation!

• 09/2025 - [Talk] Dr. Zhong presented his research on "Explainable AI for Smart Manufacturing" at the ISE 5024 Graduate Seminar Series.

  Thank Dr. G. Don Taylor for this great opportunity!

• 06/2025 - [Award & Paper] Cheers! Our paper "Efficient screening of rare large pit anomalies on polished surfaces using a minimalist sampling scheme" has been fast-tracked to the SME Journal of Manufacturing Processes and won the NAMRC Outstanding Paper Award in Manufacturing Processes!

  I have presented this work at the Student Research Presentation Competition during SME NAMRC 53.

• 05/2025 - [Award] Cheers! Our team has won the second place in the 2025 IISE QCRE Data Challenge.

  Kudos to the main contributors: Shashank Galla, Haopeng Tian, and Abhishek Hanchate!

• 04/2025 - [Paper] Cheers! Our paper "When textures deceive: Weakly supervised industrial anomaly detection with adapted-loss CycleGAN" has been accepted at the 2025 IEEE/CVF CVPR Workshop on Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection (VAND 3.0).

  Congratulations, Tapan Ganatma Nakkina!

• 10/2024 - [Award] INFORMS TAMU Student Chapter has once again won the highest distinction, Summa Cum Laude!

  As Vice President of the INFORMS TAMU Student Chapter, I am proud to announce...

• 10/2024 - [Conference] Welcome to my session TA26 at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting!

  Time & Location: Tuesday, October 22nd, from 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM in Summit 346