Rate My Professor Mingzhou Jin

Mingzhou Jin is the John D. Tickle Professor and Department Head of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He directs the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE) and the FERSC Center, a U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center Tier-1 Center. Jin joined the University of Tennessee in 2012 after spending ten years at Mississippi State University from 2002 to 2011. His academic background includes a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Lehigh University in 2001, an MS in Management Science from the Business School of Zhejiang University in 1998, and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Mixed Class from Zhejiang University in 1995. Jin's research centers on sustainability, climate change, optimization, transportation and logistics, supply chain management, additive and smart manufacturing, and energy efficiency. His work has secured more than $19 million in grants and contracts from federal agencies such as the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Transportation, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as well as state departments of transportation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and industry partners including FedEx, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Nissan, Schneider Electric, and America Makes.

Jin has made substantial contributions through key publications, including "Country-specific net-zero strategies of the pulp and paper industry" in Nature (2023), "TSECfire v1.0: Quantifying Wildfire Drivers and Predictability in Boreal Peatlands Using a Two-Step Error-Correcting Machine Learning Framework" accepted by Geoscientific Model Development (2023), "Automated Storage and Retrieval System Design with Variant Lane Depths" accepted by European Journal of Operational Research (2023), and "Coffee Supply Chain Planning under Climate Change" in the Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences (2022). His achievements have earned him numerous honors, such as the 2020 University of Tennessee Knoxville Chancellor’s Research and Creative Achievement Award, 2020 Tickle College of Engineering Research Achievement Award, election as a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers in 2018, Tickle College of Engineering Teaching Fellow Award in 2015, Outstanding Faculty Service Award in 2018, Outstanding Advising Award in 2016, and multiple best paper awards at IISE conferences including Logistics and Supply Chain Track in 2018 and Engineering Economic Analysis Track in 2016. Jin also received the Dr. Kenneth Kirby Endowed Faculty Award in 2023 and 2017.