Accenture Professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, United States
Dragan Djurdjanovic obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Eng. and B.S. in Applied Mathematics in 1997 from the Univ. of Nis, Serbia, his M.S. in Mechanical Eng. from the Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore in 1999, and his M.S. in Electrical Eng. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Eng. in 2002 from the Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Djurdjanovic explores methodologies for transforming data into useful information and further into operational decisions, with most of the applications of his research being in semiconductor manufacturing. Between 2013 and 2020, Dr. Djurdjanovic served as the Director of the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS Center) at the University of Texas at Austin. He also served as the Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center on Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies (NASCENT Center) from 2018 until 2023. Dr. Djurdjanovic co-authored more than 150 archival journal and refereed conference publications, and he serves as an Associate Editor in the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), Associate Member of the International Academy for Production Research (CIRP) and is the recipient of several prizes and recognitions, including the 2018 August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship from the Technical University of Munich, and the 2006 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
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