Dr. Simon M. Hsiang

Education
Taiwan Fengchia University: B.S., Traffic and Transportation Engineering and Management, 1982
Texas Tech. University: M.S.I.E., Industrial Engineering, 1989
Texas Tech. University: Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, 1992

Areas of Interest
Human Factors/Ergonomics
1. Cognitive Engineering – perceptual models, psychophysics, information theory, crossover model, optimal control.
2. Occupational Biomechanics – bioinstrumentation, signal processing, digital human simulation, disc disruption theory, gait analysis.
3. Virtual Reality – signal detection, optic flows manipulation, haptic feedback, Kalman filter.
Modeling and System Design
1. Data Mining – cluster analysis, multiple scaling, principle components, factor analysis, discriminant analysis, fuzzy neural network, multidimensional scaling, nonlinear regression.
2. System Identification – ARX, ARMAX, state-space models.
3. Human Safety and Reliability – axiomatic design, accelerated life testing, survival/failure analysis, proportional hazardous model, risk analysis.

Simon M. Hsiang is a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University joining the faculty in 2005.

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