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IEEE Membership
  • IEEE Schenectady Section, Region 1
  • IEEE Society on Computers
  • IEEE Society on Control Systems
  • IEEE Society on Robotics and Automation
  • IEEE Society on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
IEEE Volunteer Positions
  • 1983-1985 Elected Member of Administrative Committee, Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)
  • 1984-1986 Appointed Division X Representative to Technical Activities Board (TAB) Periodicals Committee
  • 1986-1987 Elected Vice President (Evaluation/Awards), SMC
  • 1988-1989 Elected Vice President (Long Range Planning and Finance), SMC
  • 1987-1989 Appointed Chair, Society Publications Committee
  • 1987-1989 Appointed Member, TAB
  • 1988-1990 Appointed Member, Publications Board
  • 1989-1990 Appointed Chair, Panel of Technical Publication Editors
  • 1989-1990 Appointed Member, Technical Activities Department (TAD) Organization Study Committee
  • 1990-1991 Elected President, SMC
  • 1990-1991 Elected Member, TAB
  • 1990-1991 Elected Chair, IEEE Society Presidents' Forum (Comprised of 37 IEEE Society/Council Presidents)
  • 1990-1990 Appointed Member, TAD Review Committee
  • 1990-1992 Appointed Chair, Engineering Foundation Research Initiation Grant Program Review Committee
  • 1991-1992 Appointed Member, Neural Networks Council
  • 1991-1992 Appointed Member, TAB Budget Review Committee
  • 1991-1992 Appointed Chair, TAB Structure Review Committee
  • 1992-1992 Appointed Member, Regional Activities Board (RAB)/TAB Transnational Committee
  • 1991-1992 Appointed Member, TAB Committee on Affiliates
  • 1992-1992 Elected Member, TAB Administration Council
  • 1992-1993 Appointed Chair, Task Force on Organization
  • 1992-1996 Appointed Member, IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee
  • 1993-1997 Appointed Member, TAB Strategic Planning and Review Committee
  • 1993-1993 Appointed Member, Review Committee for the IEEE Admission and Advancement Committee
  • 1993-1998 Appointed Chair, SMC Society Fellows Committee
  • 1993-1994 Appointed Chair, Membership Options Committee
  • 1994-1995 Appointed Member, SMC Committee on SMC/NNC Merger
  • 1994-1996 Appointed Member, TAB Standing Committees Review Committee
  • 1994-1996 Appointed Member, TAB Committee on Financial Policy
  • 1994-1996 Appointed Member, SMC Finance Committee
  • 1995-1996 Elected Chair, TAB Products Council
  • 1995-2000 Elected Member, Publications Board
  • 1995-1996 Appointed Member, Book Brokers Committee
  • 1995-2000 Appointed Member, TAB Finance Committee
  • 1995-1996 Elected Member, TAB
  • 1995-1996 Appointed Member, TAB Management Committee
  • 1995-1997 Appointed Chair, AdHoc Products Revenue Distribution Committee
  • 1996-1997 Elected Member, Nominations & Appointments Committee
  • 1997-1997 Elected General Chair, International SMC Conference
  • 1997-2000 Elected Chair, Publications Activities Board Finance Committee
  • 1997-2000 Elected Member, IEEE Finance Committee
  • 1997-1998 Appointed Co-Chair, SMC/Robotics and Automation (RA) Merger Committee
  • 1998-2004 Appointed Member, IEEE Strategic Planning Committee
  • 2000-2002 Appointed Member, Simon Ramo Medal Committee
  • 2001-2002 Elected Vice President, IEEE Publication Services and Products (PSPB) Board
  • 2001-2004 Elected Member, IEEE Board of Directors
  • 2001-2004 Elected Member, IEEE Executive Committee
  • 2001-Pres Appointed Member, TAB/PSPB Electronic Products Committee
  • 2001-2002 Appointed Member, IEEE Transnational Committee
  • 2001-2003 Appointed Member, IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee
  • 2001-2002 Appointed Member, IEEE Awards Board
  • 2001-2004 Appointed Member, IEEE Overhead Administration Committee
  • 2002-2003 Appointed Member, IEEE Foundation Committee on Awards
  • 2002-2003 Appointed Member, IEEE Procedures Development and Review Committee
  • 2002-Pres Elected Charter Member, Friends of the IEEE Awards Program
  • 2003-2004 Elected Vice President, IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB)
  • 2003-2004 Elected Member, United Engineering Trust
  • 2005-Pres Appointed Member, Region 1 Strategic Planning Committee
  • 2005-Pres Past Vice President, IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB)
Honors and Awards
  • 1964 Elected to Eta Kappa Nu
  • 1965 Elected to Tau Beta Pi
  • 1966 Designated a Bell Telephone Laboratories Fellow
  • 1967 Elected to Sigma Xi
  • 1972 Received Excellence in Teaching Award (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • 1979 Cited in Who's Who In Finance and Industry
  • 1980 Cited in Who's Who In The World
  • 1981 Cited in Who's Who In Engineering and Who's Who In America
  • 1982 Elected Senior Member in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • 1988 Recipient of National Institute of Justice Research Award (“In recognition of important contributions to criminological research”)
  • 1988 Elected to The New York Academy of Sciences
  • 1989 Recipient of National Institute of Justice Research Award (“In recognition of important contributions to criminological research”)
  • 1989 Elected Senior Member in Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
  • 1991 Elected Fellow in IEEE ("For contributions to systems engineering as applied to public systems")
  • 1991 Recipient of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC) Outstanding Contribution Award ("For outstanding leadership and exemplary service")
  • 1993 Recipient of 1993 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Centennial Award ("For distinguished contributions")
  • 1996 Designated Honorary Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
  • 1997 Recipient of IEEE/SMC Outstanding Contribution Award (“For contributions to scholarship”)
  • 1997 Recipient of DSES' 1997 Del and Ruth Karger Dissertation Prize (For supervision of Young Lee’s doctoral dissertation)
  • 1998 Elected to Benjamin Franklin Greene Society of the Patroons of Rensselaer.
  • 1998 Recipient of IEEE/SMC Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award (“For exemplary contributions to systems engineering concepts, methodologies, and education”) – Youngest Recipient of Award.
  • 2000 Recipient of DSES' 2000 Del and Ruth Karger Dissertation Prize (For supervision of Plinio De los Santos' doctoral dissertation).
  • 2000 Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal ("For outstanding achievements and contributions").
  • 2000 Recipient of the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award ("For initiating, developing, and leading multidisciplinary innovations in engineering education")
  • 2001 Elected to National Academy of Engineering ("For contributions to the development and application of systems engineering concepts and methodologies contributions to engineering education")
  • 2001 Recipient of DSES' 2001 Faculty Award for Excellence
  • 2002 Invited Honorary Guest, China International Talent Exchange Foundation, Beijing, China
  • 2002 Designated Honorary Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China), Tianjin University of Finance and Economics (Tianjin, China), and Wuhan University of Technology (Wuhan, China)
  • 2002 Recipient of 2002 Rensselaer Alumni Association Fellows Award
  • 2002 Elected (Inaugural) Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
  • 2002 Appointed (Inaugural) Yamada Corporation Professor
  • 2004 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 Recipient of IEEE/SMC Norbert Wiener Award ("For very significant contributions to research in systems, human factors and cybernetics")
  • 2005 Recipient of IBM Faculty Award
Education
  • 9/62-6/66 B.E.E., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
  • 9/66-9/67 S.M., Electrical & Systems Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • 9/69-6/70 E.E., Electrical & Systems Engineering, MIT
  • 9/70-6/72 Ph.D., Systems Engineering & Operations Research, MIT
Academic Experience
  • 9/69 Teaching Assistant/Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (9/69-6/72)
  • 9/73 Visiting Lecturer (Part-Time), MIT (9/73-6/77)
  • 7/77 Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering (ECSE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
  • 7/81 Associate Professor (with Tenure), ECSE, RPI
  • 9/86 Acting Department Head, ECSE, RPI (9/86 8/87)
  • 7/87 Professor, ECSE, RPI (7/87-Present)
  • 7/88 Professor and Chair, Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems (DSES), RPI (7/88-Present)
  • 8/92 Acting Dean, School of Engineering, and Officer of the Institute, RPI (8/92-6/94)
  • 4/98 Acting Dean, School of Engineering, and Officer of the Institute, RPI (4/98-10/99)
  • 11/02 Yamada Corporation Professor, RPI (11/02-Present)
Industrial Experience
  • 6/66-9/69 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories
  • 6/70-9/73 Researcher/Project Director, The Rand Corporation
  • 9/73-3/75 Senior Scientist/Area Director, Urban Systems Research & Engineering
  • 3/75-Pres Vice President and Principal, Structured Decisions Corporation
Refereed Publications
  • 3 Co-Edited Books
  • 30 Authored and Co-Authored Monographs
  • 14 Authored and Co-Authored Book and Encyclopedia Chapters
  • 80 Authored and Co-Authored Papers (Including Publications in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking)
Conference Presentations
  • 51 Paper Presentations (Mostly in IEEE-Sponsored Conferences)
  • 27 Plenary Presentations
Funded Research Areas
  • Methodologies (Probabilistic Modeling; Queuing Theory; Decision Analysis; Evaluation Methods; Statistical Computing; Computational Cybernetics; Biometric Modeling; Decision Informatics)
  • Applications (National assessment of criminal history information systems; Data base management and information systems design; Computer performance modeling and network analysis; Decision support, expert and knowledge systems; Real-time management of supply and demand chains; Real-time decision making in E-Business)
Other Professional Activities
  • Member, 5 Editorial Boards
  • Member, 5 Other Professional Societies
  • Member, International Network for Engineering Education and Research (INEER).
  • Member, Academic Advisory Committee, Research Center for Contemporary Management, TsinghuaUniversity, Beijing, China
  • Member, National Panel on Distance/Continuing Education, Education Ministry, Beijing, China.
  • Member, Research Committee, National Sciences and Research Council of Canada
  • Member, Expert Committee on the Intelligent Renewal of Department of Energy Infrastructure, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, National Research Council
  • Chair, Section 8 Peer Committee on Industrial, Manufacturing and Operational Systems Engineering, National Academy of Engineering
   
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James M. Tien, Ph.D., NAE
Yamada Corporation Professor
Chair and Professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA
518-276-6486
tienj@rpi.edu

 
 
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