Biography: Ruqiang Yan (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in precision instrument and machinery from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, in 2007. He was a Guest Researcher with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, from 2006 to 2008, and a Professor with the School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, from 2009 to 2018. He joined the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2018. His research interests include data analytics, artificial intelligence, and energy-efficient sensing and sensor networks for the condition monitoring and health diagnosis of large-scale, complex, and dynamical systems. Dr. Yan is a fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His honors and awards include the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award in 2019, the Distinguished Service Award in 2022, and multiple best paper awards. He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Instrument and Measurement since January 2022. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal and an Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering.
