Yung C. Shin is currently a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University and holds the Donald A. and Nancy G. Roach Professorship of Advanced Manufacturing.  He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1984. He worked as a senior project engineer at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan from 1984 to 1988 and as an assistant professor at the Pennsylvania State University from 1988 to 1990 prior to joining the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 1990.  His research areas include laser processing of materials, intelligent and adaptive control of manufacturing processes, machining of advanced materials, process monitoring and automation.  He has published over 340 refereed papers in archived journals and conference proceedings.

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He established the Center of Excellence for Laser-based Manufacturing in 2003 and currently is serving as its director.  He also  served as chair of Systems, Measurement and Control Area in the School of Mechanical Engineering,  an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, and is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief for  Lasers in Materials Processing and Manufacturing, an international journal, published by Springer as well as on the editorial board of several other journals.  He received numerous awards, including the 2007 ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, the best paper award at 2011 ASME MSEC, the best paper of the year award from Journal of Laser Applications in 2012, the SME Frederick Taylor Research Medal in 2015, and SME/NAMRI 2016 S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award.  He is a fellow of ASME and SME, and a senior member of ASM, TMS, and LIA.