Leyuan Shi

Leyuan Shi is a Chinese-American industrial engineer and a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on the modeling, simulation, and optimization of large-scale systems for smart manufacturing, supply chains, and communications.

Education and career Shi studied mathematics at Nanjing Normal University, graduating in 1982. After a second master's degree in applied mathematics in 1985 from Tsinghua University, she went to Harvard University for continued study in applied mathematics. She earned a second master's degree there in 1990, and completed her Ph.D. in 1992. Her doctoral dissertation, Optimization of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, was supervised by Yu-Chi Ho.

After joining the University of Wisconsin, Shi founded a spinoff company in 1995 named LS Optimal. In 2010 she took a leave from Wisconsin to join the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Peking University. In 2020 she was named as director of Wisconsin's Center for Quick Response Manufacturing.

Books Shi's books include: Modeling, Control and Optimization of Complex Systems (edited with Weibo Gong, Springer, 2003) Nested Partitions Method, Theory and Applications (with Sigurdur Ólafsson, Springer, 2009) Supply Chain Management and Logistics: Innovative Strategies and Practical Solutions (edited with Zhe Liang and W. Art Chaovalitwongse, CRC Press, 2016)

Recognition Shi was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011.