Liang Zhang - Assistant Professor

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering - Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2009
M.E., Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2004
B.E., Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2002

Research Interests

Production Systems Engineering; Modeling, analysis, improvement, and design of manufacturing and service systems; Supply chain and enterprise systems management; Computational intelligence based optimization theory and algorithms.

Selected Awards

• Best Paper Award, 16th Chinese Conference on Decision and Control, Huangshan, China, 2004
• Outstanding Paper Award, 1st International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Beijing, China, 2002

Selected Publications

Refereed Journals

1. J. Arinez, S. Biller, S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Quantity/Quality improvement in an automotive paint shop: A case study," conditionally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2009.
2. S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Product quality inspection in Bernoulli lines: Analysis, bottlenecks, and design," conditionally accepted by International Journal of Production Research, 2009.
3. S. Biller, J. Li, S. Marin, S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Bottleneck in Bernoulli serial lines with rework," conditionally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2009.
4. S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Bernoulli production lines with quality-quantity coupling machines: Monotonicity properties and bottlenecks," accepted for publication in Annals of Operations Research, 2009.
5. S. Biller, S. Marin, S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Closed Bernoulli production lines: Analysis, improvement and leanness," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 168-180, 2009.
6. S. Ching, S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Assembly systems with non-exponential machines: Throughput and bottlenecks," Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 911-917, 2008.
7. S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Transient behavior of serial production lines with Bernoulli machines," IIE Transactions, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 297-312, 2008.
8. L. Wang, L. Zhang and D.-Z. Zheng, "An effective hybrid genetic algorithm for flow shop scheduling with limited buffers," Computers & Operations Research, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2960-2971, 2006.
9. L. Wang and L. Zhang, "Determining optimal combination of genetic operators for flow shop scheduling," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 30, no. 3-4, pp. 302-308, 2006.
10. L. Wang and L. Zhang, "Stochastic optimization using simulated annealing with hypothesis test," Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 174, no. 2, pp. 1329-1342, 2006.
11. L. Zhang, L.Wang and D.-Z. Zheng, "An adaptive genetic algorithm with multiple operators for flow shop scheduling," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 27, no. 5-6, pp. 580-587, 2006.
12. L. Wang, L. Zhang and D.-Z. Zheng, "Genetic ordinal optimisation for stochastic flow shop scheduling," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 27, no. 1-2, pp. 166-173, 2005.
13. L. Wang, L. Zhang and D.-Z. Zheng, "A class of hypothesis-test based genetic algorithm for flow shop scheduling with stochastic processing time," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 25, no. 11-12, pp. 1157-1163, 2005.
14. L. Wang, L. Zhang and D.-Z. Zheng, "The ordinal optimisation of genetic control parameters for flow shop scheduling," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 23, no. 11-12, pp. 812-819, 2004.
15. L. Wang, L. Zhang and D.-Z. Zheng, "A class of order-based genetic algorithm for flow shop scheduling," International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 22, no. 11-12, pp. 828-835, 2003.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Transients in production lines with two non-identical Bernoulli machines," to appear in 7th Conference on Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Operations, Italy, 2009.
2. J. Li, S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Production Systems Engineering: Problems, solutions, and applications," to appear in 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, Moscow, Russia, 2009 (keynote).
3. S. M. Meerkov, N. Shimkin and L. Zhang, "Transient behavior of two-machine geometric lines," to appear in 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, Moscow, Russia, 2009 (invited).
4. S. Biller, S. P. Marin, S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Closed production line with arbitrary models of machine reliability," Proceedings of 4th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, pp. 466-471, Washington, DC, 2008.
5. S. Biller, J. Li, S. Marin, S. M. Meerkov and L. Zhang, "Bottlenecks in production lines with rework: A systems approach," Proceedings of 17th IFAC World Congress, pp. 14888-14893, Seoul, Korea, 2008.
6. L. Zhang, L. Wang and D.-Z. Zheng, "Hypothesis test based intelligent optimization algorithms and comparisons," Proceedings of 16th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, pp. 338-341, Huangshan, China, 2004 (in Chinese).
7. L. Zhang, L. Wang and F. Tang, "Order-based genetic algorithm for flow shop scheduling," Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, pp. 139-144, Beijing, China, 2002.