MATERIALS

• Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis – Problems, Models, Methods and Applications

CURRICULUM VITAE
Short Bio

• 1987               PhD in System Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• 1987-89          Lecturer and Associate Professor (1988) in System Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• 1989-90           British Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in System Sciences, UMIST
• 1991-95          Research Associate and Senior Research Associate (1993)in Decision Support Systems, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• 1995-97          Lecturerin Operational Research, University of Birmingham
• 1998-04          Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (2000) and Professor (2003) of Decision and System Sciences, UMIST
• 2004-              Professor of Decision and System Sciences, The University of Manchester

Research Interests

• Evidential Reasoning under Uncertainty and Decision Theory
• Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis and Multiple Objective Optimisation
• Knowledge-based Systems and Decision Support Systems
• System Modelling, Simulation, Optimisation and Control
• Risk, Safety and Security Analysis in Engineering and Social Systems
• Design Decision Support for Engineering Products and Systems
• Performance Analysis and Improvement for Public and Private Sectors
• Evaluation of Sustainability, Innovation, Quality, Policy, etc

Email: jian-bo.yang@mbs.ac.uk
Web-Page: www.personal.mbs.ac.uk/jbyang