Bing Si

In 2018, Bing Si shook hands with Dean Kyle Squires and departed the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, leaving the graduate convocation as a shining example of everything the school’s industrial engineering program has to offer.

During her time as an ASU doctoral student, Si was named an Outstanding Emerging Fulton Student Organization Leader, and she also received both the Dean’s Dissertation Award and the Grace Hopper Scholarship.

Quickly snapped up post-graduation, she assumed a tenure-track faculty position at the State University of New York. She made waves with her impactful research in statistical machine learning and its application in health care and medicine. Si is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Early Stage Distinguished Research Award and the Million Dollar Award from the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University.

In 2023, an R01 research project, helmed by Si, received a $2.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health to develop machine learning models to identify and predict cardiometabolic risks in U.S. adolescents and young adults.

Now, Si returns to the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. She joins the Fulton Schools as an associate professor of industrial engineering, part of efforts to build a world-class faculty team to enhance the highly ranked program’s growth.

Si’s research lies at the intersection of statistical modeling, machine learning and health care data science. Working in collaboration with physicians, clinical scientists and nursing researchers, she studies how technology can be used throughout the patient care cycle, including during screening, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, monitoring and care. Her research aims to develop novel systems engineering approaches for complex-structured heterogeneous data that improve precision medicine, public health and health care systems.

With a track record of encouraging and mentoring women in engineering and students from historically underserved populations, Si’s presence in the Fulton Schools is sure to inspire the next generation of industrial engineers to tackle pressing problems.

Si is a member of numerous professional associations, including IISE, INFORMS, IEEE and SRS. She serves as a guest editor for the journal Mathematics and an associate editor for IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering.

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Written by Kelly deVos