Complex Systems Monitoring, Modeling and Analysis

Dr. Yang and his research team at USF aim to create a rigorous knowledge body for sensorbased complex systems monitoring, modeling and analysis. The research will ultimately contribute to a new paradigm where a complex system is autonomized and optimized at all scales. As shown in Figure 1, industry in the 21 century is investing in a variety of sensor networks and dedicated data centers to increase information visibility in both engineering and healthcare domains. Real-time sensing brings the proliferation of big data (i.e., dynamic, nonlinear, nonstationary, high dimensional) that contains a wealth of information on the condition and status of a product, process or a system. Big Data presents a ‘gold mine’ of this era (21 century). Innovations in industrial and systems engineering in this century will be highly dominated by “new methods and tools” to mine the big data and harness its power for new product development, problem solving and system optimization.