About
Ran Jin
Professor, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech · Director, Laboratory of Data Science and Visualization.
Appointments and leadership
Assistant ProfessorAugust, 2011 - May, 2019
Associate Professor (with Tenure)June, 2019 - June, 2025
Professor (with Tenure)July, 2025 - Present
Director, Laboratory of Data Science and VisualizationSeptember, 2015 - Present
President, Engineering Faculty OrganizationJune, 2019 - January, 2021
Co-Chair, Commission on Research, Virginia TechAugust, 2021 - May, 2022
Operations Officer, Virginia Tech Faculty Senate (The first Operations Officer in the University History)August, 2021 - May, 2022
Education
- Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 2011
- Advisor: Dr. Jianjun Shi
- M.A. Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2009
- M.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007
- B.Eng. Electronic Information Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2005
Selected awards
- Dean’s List of Teaching Evaluations for 2024-2025 Academic Year (A list of instructors who taught at least 30 students, and at least 3 classes, and whose average overall rating was 5.2 or above (out of 6.0 scale) for the 2024-2025 Academic Year (fall and spring only)), 2025
- Academy of Faculty Service Award, Virginia Tech, 2024
- Best Associate Editor’s Award, INFORMS Journal on Data Science, 2023
- Dean’s List of Teaching Evaluations for 2022-2023 Academic Year (A list of instructors who taught at least 30 students, and at least 3 classes, and whose average overall rating was 5.2 or above (out of 6.0 scale) for the 2022-2023 Academic Year (fall and spring only)), 2023
- IISE Transactions, Focus Issue on Quality and Reliability Engineering, Honorable Mention for the Best Application Paper, 2020
- Editor's Choice Article in Energies, 2018
- ICTAS Junior Faculty Awards at Virginia Tech, 2017, 2018 (together with Dr. Dongyoon Lee from Computer Science on “Fog Computing based Smart Additive Manufacturing”; among 10 awards at Virginia Tech), April 2017 and April 2018
- Scholar of Week at Virginia Tech, July 2017
- Best Poster Award, CELDi - Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution, 2017 (together with Mr. Yifu Li, Mr. Lening Wang, Dr. Kimberly Ellis and Dr. Jeffrey Arbogast)
- ICTAS Diversity and Inclusion Award at Virginia Tech, 2016-2017 ($10,000, together with Dr. Xinwei Deng from Department of Statistics)