Dr. Yanjun Yan

• Professor
• School of Engineering + Technology, College of Engineering and Technology
• Western Carolina University
• Email: yyan@wcu.edu
• Phone: 828-227-2648
• Office: Belk 332, Belk building is #14 on the map

Bio

Dr. Yan obtained her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Applied Statistics from Syracuse University. She worked at a company for a few years before she joined Western Carolina University in Fall 2013.

Curriculum Vitae

Research

• Swarm robotics and swarm intelligence (such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO))
• Prognostics and diagnostics, such as in wind energy systems
• Statistical signal processing, applied in detection and estimation, tracking, fusion, wireless communications, and pattern recognition
• Engineering education

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Awards

• On scholarship
• Fall 2021, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. Read the newsletter FB Newsletter Spring 2022 on the story of “Super-Duper Souvenir” on page 16-19.
• Fall 2021, WCU Scholarly Development Award Program
• 2016-2017, the College of Engineering and Technology (CET) Distinguished Research and Scholarly Engagement Award, one recipient per year at CET.
• 2015-2016, WCU Hunter Scholar Award, one recipient per year at WCU. See Hunter’s Clarion Newsletter Page 6.
• 2014-2015, the Kimmel School Outstanding Early-Career Faculty Award, one recipient per year at Kimmel School (renamed to be CET since 2016).
• Internal research awards
  • 2020, WCU Provost Scholarship Development Award
  • 2018-2019, WCU Faculty Scholarship and Creative Activities Award, 2nd time.
  • 2016, WCU Provost’s Internal Funding Support Grant.
  • 2014-2015, WCU Faculty Scholarship and Creative Activities Award, 1st time, one of five recipients per year at WCU.
• On teaching
• 2023 University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching,
  https://www.wcu.edu/stories/posts/News/2023/04/yanjun-yan-named-recipient-of-2023-unc-board-of-governors-award-for-excellence-in-teaching.aspx
  https://www.northcarolina.edu/news/unc-board-of-governors-names-recipients-of-2023-awards-for-excellence-in-teaching/
• 2019-2020, the CET Distinguished Student Engagement Award, one recipient per year at CET.
• 2017-2018, the CET Board of Governors Distinguished Teaching Award, one recipient per year at CET.
• On service
• 2020-2021, Outstanding Faculty Participation in Community Service Projects
• 2019-2020, Top Community Engagement Faculty at WCU
• Spring 2018, WCU Coulter Endowment Grant on COACHE and Faculty Fit Project.

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Publications (Published and Accepted)

The copyright of each article belongs to the corresponding copyright holder.

2024:

• Yanjun Yan, Gael Graham, and Russell Sarwar Kabir. “Co-offering Engineering and Non-Engineering Courses on Faculty-led Trips to Foster Global Competence via Interdisciplinary Learning,” Proceedings of the 131st ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2024), Portland, USA, June 23-26, 2024.
• Hugh Jack and Yanjun Yan. “The Use of Chatbots in Engineering Including Critical Thinking and Problem Definition,” Proceedings of the 131st ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2024), Portland, USA, June 23-26, 2024.

2023:

• Andy Ritenour and Yanjun Yan. “Use of Individual Lab Kits to Enhance Hands-on Learning in Electronic Circuits Courses,” Proceedings of the 130th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2023), Baltimore, USA, June 25-28, 2023.
• Basel Alsayyed Ahmad and Yanjun Yan. “All-encompassing Skill Portal for Skills Management and Development,” Proceedings of the 130th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2023), Baltimore, USA, June 25-28, 2023.
• Yanjun Yan. “Create Multi-Part Problems with Random Parameterization On Blackboard and Canvas On Par with “Mastering” and “Connect”,” Proceedings of the 130th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2023), Baltimore, USA, June 25-28, 2023.
• Vladislav Slavov and Yanjun Yan. “Study on AI in Education Policies,” Proceedings of INTED (International Academy of Technology, Education and Development) 2023, Valencia, Spain, Mar 2023. PDF

2022:

• Yanjun Yan. “Co-offering An Engineering Course and A Non-engineering Course During the Same Faculty-Led Trip to Promote Interdisciplinary Collaboration,” Peer-reviewed long abstracts for the 25th Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education (ACIEE 2022): Connecting Engineering with the Humanities, virtual, RI, November 2-3, 2022.
• Yanjun Yan, Ivo Rumenov Draganov, Hugh Jack, Tasho Tashev, and Mary Anna LaFratta. “A Project-Based Learning (PBL) Course Offered in Bulgaria in a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Project During the Pandemic,” Proceedings of the 129th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2022), Minneapolis, USA, June 26-29, 2022.
• Yanjun Yan, Ivo Rumenov Draganov, and Tasho Tashev. “A Case Study of Student-Centered Project Design and Execution,” Proceedings of the XIX-th International Conference “Challenges in Higher Education and Research in the 21st Century”, virtual, Bulgaria, May 30 – June 1, 2022. The paper will be in the archive link
• Nelson A. Granda-Marulanda, Yanjun Yan, and Hugh Jack. “Using a Faculty-Led Course Experience to Increase Global Sustainability Competencies On-Campus,” Proceedings of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2022, Seattle, USA, May 21-24, 2022.

2021:

• Paul Yanik, Chip Ferguson, Sudhir Kaul, and Yanjun Yan. “Enhancement of Engineering Student Engagement,” Journal of Engineering Technology, Fall 2021, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p24-36. Best Paper Award of JET 2020 Fall – 2022 Spring.
• Yanjun Yan, Robert Adams, Paul Yanik, Hugh Jack, Andrew Ritenour, and H Bora Karayaka. “BYOE: Individual Lab Kit Options for Analog and Digital Circuits Suitable for In-Class or At-home Experiments,” The 128th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2021), virtual, July, 2021.
• Yanjun Yan, Hugh Jack, and James Coffin. “Team-teaching a Project-based First-Year Seminar in Pandemic,” The 128th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2021), virtual, July, 2021.

2020:

• Yanjun Yan, Nelson A. Granda Marulanda, B. David Tyler, Hugh Jack, and Lauren R. Bishop. “Overcoming the Challenges to Launch a Successful Initiative of an Engineering Faculty-led Travel Course While Boosting Interdisciplinary Collaborations,” The 127th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2020), Virtual, June 21, 2020.
• Yanjun Yan, Mary Anna LaFratta, Lane Graves Perry III, and Hugh Jack. “Engagement in Practice (EIP): Differences in Perceptions between Engineering and Art Students in an Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Project,” The 127th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2020), Virtual, June 21, 2020.
• Patrik Gilley and Yanjun Yan. “Comparison of Search Optimization Algorithms in Two-Stage Artificial Neural Network Training for Handwritten Digits Recognition,” 2020 IEEE SoutheastCon, Raleigh, USA, Mar 12-15, 2020.
• Anik Tahabilder and Yanjun Yan. “Building Kilobots In-house for Shape-Formation,” 2020 IEEE SoutheastCon, Raleigh, USA, Mar 12-15, 2020.
• Rumana Sultana, Robert Adams, Yanjun Yan, Paul Yanik and Martin Tanaka. “Trash and Recycled Material Identification using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN),” 2020 IEEE SoutheastCon, Raleigh, USA, Mar 12-15, 2020.

2019:

• Mahendra Mallick, Kuo-Chu Chang, Sanjeev Arulampalam, Yanjun Yan, and Barbara La Scala. “Heterogeneous Track-to-Track Fusion in 2D Using Sonar and Radar Sensors,” Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on Information Fusion, Ottawa, Canada, July 2-5, 2019.
• Yanjun Yan, Mary Anna LaFratta, Hugh Jack, and Lane Graves Perry III. “Engagement in Practice: An Engineering Service-Learning Course in Collaboration with an ART 2D Design Course to Serve Young People on the Autism Spectrum Using The Touchboard,” The 126th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2019), Tampa, USA, June 19, 2019.
• Mahendra Mallick, Kuo-Chu Chang, Sanjeev Arulampalam, and Yanjun Yan. “Heterogeneous Track-to-Track Fusion in 3D Using IRST Sensor and Air MTI Radar,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, early access on Feb 8, 2019. Vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 3062-3079, Dec. 2019.
• Pranoy Kumar Singha Roy, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, and Yazan Alqudah. “Investigations into Best Cost Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System for a Utility Scale PV Array,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 22, pp. 50-59, ISSN 2352-152X, Apr 2019.
• Md Rakib Hasan Khan, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, Peter Tay, and Yi-Hsiang Yu. “Slider Crank WEC Performance Analysis with Adaptive Autoregressive Filtering,” in Proceedings of IEEE SouthEastCon 2019, Huntsville, USA, Apr 11-14, 2019.
• Md Rakib Hasan Khan, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, Peter Tay, and Yi-Hsiang Yu. “Wave Excitation Force Prediction Methodology Based on Autoregressive Filters for Real Time Control,” in Proceedings of IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech 2019), Lafayette, USA, Apr 3-6, 2019.
• Sudhir Kaul, Chip W Ferguson, Yanjun Yan, and Paul M Yanik. “Triangulated Mentorship of Engineering Students: Leveraging Peer Mentoring and Vertical Integration,” Global Journal of Engineering Education (GJEE), vol. 21, no.1, 2019.

2018:

• Mahendra Mallick, Yanjun Yan, and Sanjeev Arulampalam. “Heading-Parametrized Multiple Model Method for Bearing-only Filtering,” in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Control Automation & Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2018), Hangzhou, China, Oct 24-27, 2018.
• Mahendra Mallick, Yanjun Yan, and Sanjeev Arulampalam. “Aircraft 3D Trajectory Estimation with a Single Nonlinear Filter Using Two 2D Radars,” in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Control Automation & Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2018), Hangzhou, China, Oct 24-27, 2018.
• Mahendra Mallick, Sanjeev Arulampalam, and Yanjun Yan. “Posterior Cramér-Rao Lower Bound for Angle-only Filtering in 3D,” in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Control Automation & Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2018), Hangzhou, China, Oct 24-27, 2018.
• Tanner Hollis, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yi-Hsiang Yu, and Yanjun Yan. “Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation for the Proposed Slider-Crank Wave Energy Conversion Device,” Proceedings of the OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA, Oct 22-25, 2018.
• Peter Tay and Yanjun Yan. “Wavelet Denoising using a Conjointly Space and 2D Frequency Localized Filterbank,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2018), Athens, Greece, Oct 7-10, 2018.
• Chip W Ferguson, Yanjun Yan, Sudhir Kaul, and Paul M Yanik, “Scholarship Program Initiative via Recruitment, Innovation and Transformation (SPIRIT): SSTEM Program Initiatives and Results,” 125th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, USA, Jun 23-27, 2018.
• Matthew Stender, Yanjun Yan, Bora Karayaka, Peter Tay, and Robert Adams. “Adapted Neighborhood Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Kilobot in Kilombo Simulations,” 2018 IEEE SoutheastCon, St. Petersburg, USA, Apr 19-22, 2018.
• Pranoy Kumar Singha Roy, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, and Yazan Alqudah. “Evaluation of Reference Generation Algorithms for Dispatching Solar PV Power,” 2018 IEEE SoutheastCon, St. Petersburg, USA, Apr 19-22, 2018.
• Peter Tay and Yanjun Yan. “Conjointly Space and 2D Frequency Localized Filter-banks,” 2018 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI 2018), Las Vegas, USA, April 2018.
• Mahendra Mallick, Sanjeev Arulampalam, Yanjun Yan, and Jifeng Ru. “Three Dimensional Tracking of an Aircraft Using 2D Radars,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 585-600, Apr 2018.
• Yuanrui Sang, H. Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, Nadir Yilmaz, and David Souders. “Ocean (Marine) Energy,” Book Chapter in Comprehensive Energy Systems Volume 1:Energy Fundamentals, Elsevier, ISBN 9780128095973, Feb 21, 2018.

2017:

• Yuanrui Sang, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, James Z. Zhang, Darek Bogucki, and Yi-Hsiang Yu. “A Rule-Based Phase Control Methodology for a Slider-Crank Wave Energy Converter Power Take-Off System,” International Journal of Marine Energy, vol. 19, pp. 124-144, 2017.
• Pranoy Kumar Singha Roy, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, and Yazan Alqudah. “Size Optimization of Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System for 1MW Grid Connected PV Array,” The 49th North American Power Symposium, Morgantown, USA, Sep 17-19, 2017.
• Paul M Yanik, Chip W Ferguson, Sudhir Kaul, and Yanjun Yan. “A Pilot Program in Open-Ended Problem Solving and Project Management,” The 124th ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2017), Columbus, USA, Jun 25-28, 2017.
• Yanjun Yan, Le Chen, Peter Tay, and Martin Tanaka. “Molecule Binding Parameter Estimation from Surface Plasmon Resonance Measurements,” 2017 IEEE SoutheastCon, Charlotte, USA, Mar 30-Apr 2, 2017.
• Matthew Stender, Yanjun Yan, Bora Karayaka, Peter Tay, and Robert Adams. “Simulating Micro-robots to Find a Point of Interest under Noise and with Limited Communication Using Particle Swarm Optimization,” 2017 IEEE SoutheastCon, Charlotte, USA, Mar 30-Apr 2, 2017.

2016:

• Nathan Thomas and Yanjun Yan. “Make Kilobots Truly Accessible to All the People around the World,” 2016 IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO 2016), Shanghai, China, July 8-10, 2016.
• Yanjun Yan, Mahendra Mallick, James Z. Zhang, and Jie Liu. “Prognostics by Interacting Multiple Model Estimator,” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM2016), Ottawa, Canada, June 21, 2016.
• Yanjun Yan, Sudhir Kaul, Chip W Ferguson, Paul M Yanik, and April Tallant. “Perceptions and Applications of Honors Contracts in Developing an Undergraduate Engineering Research Experience,” The 123rd ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2016), New Orleans, USA, June 29, 2016.
• Yanjun Yan, Paul M Yanik, Sudhir Kaul, Chip Ferguson, Robert Adams, Wes Stone, Hugh Jack, and Jeff Ray. “The Challenges and Lessons Learned in Establishing a Travel Course,” The 5th Annual ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) International Forum, New Orleans, USA, June 25, 2016.
• Nathan Thomas, Yanjun Yan, and Hugh Jack. “Maker: A Kilobot Swarm,” The 123rd ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2016), New Orleans, USA, June 28, 2016.
• Paul M Yanik, Yanjun Yan, Sudhir Kaul, and Chip W Ferguson. “Sources of Anxiety among Engineering Students: Intervention and Mitigation,” The 123rd ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2016), New Orleans, USA, June 27, 2016.
• Chip W Ferguson, Paul M Yanik, Yanjun Yan, and Sudhir Kaul. “NSF S-STEM SPIRIT Program: Scholarship Program Initiative via Recruitment, Innovation, and Transformation, Year-One Results,” The 123rd ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2016), New Orleans, USA, June 28, 2016.
• Sudhir Kaul, Chip W Ferguson, Paul M Yanik, and Yanjun Yan. “Importance of Undergraduate Research: Efficacy and Student Perceptions,” The 123rd ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE2016), New Orleans, USA, June 29, 2016.
• Jordan Chaires, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, and Patrick Gardner. “Solar Farm Hourly Dispatching using Super-Capacitor and Battery System,” The 15th IEEE Annual Power Systems Conference, Clemson, USA, Mar 10, 2016.

2015:

• Yanjun Yan, James Z Zhang, and Hayrettin Bora Karayaka. “A Comparison of Edge Detectors in the Framework of Wake Pattern Modeling for Wind Turbines,” International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, Vol. 6, No. 28, 2015.
• Peter C. Tay and Yanjun Yan. “Conjointly Well Localized Modulated Lapped Orthogonal Transforms“, in Proceedings of 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, USA, Nov 8-11, 2015.
• Yuanrui Sang, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, James Z. Zhang, Eduard Muljadi, and Yi-Hsiang Yu. “Energy Extraction from A Slider Crank Wave Energy Converter under Irregular Wave Conditions, ” OCEANS’15 MTS/IEEE, Washington DC, USA, Oct 19-22, 2015.
• Yuanrui Sang, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, James Z. Zhang, and Eduard Muljadi. “Irregular Wave Energy Extraction Analysis for A Slider Crank WEC Power Take-off System,” 2015 ACEMP-OPTIM-Electromotion International Conference, Side, Turkey, Sep 2-4, 2015
• Yanjun Yan. “Nacelle Orientation based Health Indicator for Wind Turbines,” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM 2015), Austin, USA, June, 2015.

2014:

• Yuanrui Sang, Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Yanjun Yan, James Z. Zhang. “Resonance Control Strategy for a Slider Crank WEC Power Take-off System,” OCEANS’14 Marine Technology Society/IEEE, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, September, 2014.
• Yanjun Yan and James Zhang. “Using Edge-detector to Model Wake Effects on Wind Turbines,” 2014 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM 2014), Spokane, USA, June, 2014.
• Peter Tay and Yanjun Yan. “Particle Swarm Optimization to Determine Conjointly Well Localized MLTs,” 2014 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI 2014), San Diego, USA, April, 2014.

2013 and Earlier:

• Tiee-Jian Wu, Pinyuen Chen and Yanjun Yan. “The weighted average information criterion for multivariate regression model selection,” Signal Processing, Vol. 93, No. 1, 2013, pp. 49-55.
• Mahendra Mallick, Mark Morelande, Lyudmila Mihaylova, Sanjeev Arulampalam and Yanjun Yana. “Angle-Only Filtering in Three Dimensions,” book chapter in Integrated Tracking, Classification, and Sensor Management, Wiley & IEEE Press, 2012, pp. 3-42.
• Siva Sivananthan, Yanjun Yan, and Jifeng Ru. “Altitude Estimation Using Primary Returns from Two Radars,” The Journal of Air Traffic Control, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2012, pp. 33-37.
• Yanjun Yan, Jifeng Ru and Akhilesh Shrestha. “Improving Altitude Estimation of Primary Returns from Two Radars,” Proceedings of The 56th ATCA (Air Traffic Control Association) Annual Conference, National Harbor, MD, Oct, 2011.
• Mahendra Mallick, Lyudmila Mihaylova, Sanjeev Arulampalam and Yanjun Yan. “Angle-only Filtering in 3D Using Modified Spherical and Log Spherical Coordinates,” Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, US, July 5-8, 2011.
• Xiang Ye, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Ann Osadciw. “Learning Decision Rules by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for Wind Turbine Fault Diagnosis,” Proceedings of Annual Conference of the PHM (Prognostics and Health Management) Society 2010, Portland, OR, Oct 10-14, 2010.
• Mahendra Mallick, Yanjun Yan, Sanjeev Arulampalam and Aditya Mallick. “Connection between Differential Geometry and Estimation Theory for Polynomial Nonlinearity in 2D,” Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Information Fusion, EICC Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010.
• Weihua Gao, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Osadciw, Chunjie Duan and Cheng Li. “A Two Stage PAPR Reduction Method on Frequency Redundant OFDM System,” Proceedings of 25th Queen’s Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC 2010), Kingston, Canada, May 12-14, 2010.
• Xiang Ye, Weihua Gao, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Osadciw. “Multiple tests for wind turbine fault detection and score fusion using two-level multidimensional scaling (MDS),” Proceedings of 2010 SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computation: Theory and Applications IV, Orlando, FL, Apr. 2010.
• Lisa Ann Osadciw, Yanjun Yan, Xiang Ye, Glen Benson and Eric White. “Wind Turbine Diagnostics based on Power Curve Using Particle Swarm Optimization,” book chapter in Wind Power Systems: Applications of Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2010.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Density Estimation using a New Dimension Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm,” Swarm Intelligence, vol. 3, no. 4, 2009, pp. 275-301.
• Yanjun Yan, Ganapathi Kamath, Lisa A. Osadciw, Glen Benson, Paul Legac, Peter Johnson, and Eric White. “Fusion for Modeling Wake Effects on Wind Turbines,” Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle,Washington, July, 2009.
• Xiang Ye, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Yanjun Yan, and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Unsupervised Learning and Fusion for Failure Detection in Wind Turbines,” Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle, Washington, July, 2009.
• Yanjun Yan, Lisa A. Osadciw, Glen Benson, and Eric White. “Inverse Data Transformation for Change Detection in Wind Turbine Diagnostics,” Proceedings of 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Delta St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, May, 2009.
• Yanjun Yan, Ganapathi Kamath and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Feature Selection Optimized by Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Face Recognition,” 2009 SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification V, Orlando, FL, Apr. 2009.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Varying Dimensional Particle Swarm Optimization,” Proceedings of 2008 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, Sep, 2008.
• Yanjun Yan, Lisa A. Osadciw and Pinyuen Chen. “Confidence Interval of Feature Number Selection for Face Recognition,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 17, no. 1, Jan 2008.
• Yanjun Yan, Rajani Muraleedharan, Xiang Ye and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Contourlet Based Image Compression for Wireless Communication in Face Recognition System,” Proc. IEEE-ICC 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May, 2008.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Intelligent Three Step Sampling Design for Face Recognition,” 2008 SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification V, Orlando, FL, Mar. 2008.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Bridging Biometrics and Forensics,” Proc. IS&T and SPIE Electronic Imaging 2008, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2008.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Distributed Wireless Face Recognition System,” Proceedings of IS&T and SPIE Electronic Imaging 2008, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2008.
• Yanjun Yan, Rajani Muraleedharan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Ant System based Flexible and Cost Effective Routing for Wireless Face Recognition,” Proceedings of IEEE-CCNC 2008, 5th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 2008.
• Rajani Muraleedharan, Yanjun Yan, and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Detecting Sybil Attacks in Image Sensor Network Using Cognitive Intelligence,” Proceedings of 1st ACM Workshop on Sensor and Actor Networks SANET’07. ACM Press, pp. 59-60. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sep. 2007.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Fusion for Component based Face Recognition,” Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, Mar. 2007.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Sampling Design for Face Recognition,” SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, vol. 6202, Orlando, FL, Apr. 2006.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Contourlet based Image Recovery and De-noising through Wireless Fading Channels,” Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, Session: FA6, Mar. 2005.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. “Intra-difference based Segmentation and Face Recognition,” Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security: Security, Law Enforcement and Defense, vol. 5404, Orlando, FL, Apr. 2004.
• Norio Baba, Naoyuki Inoue and Yan Yanjun. “Utilization of Soft Computing Techniques for Constructing Reliable Decision Support Systems for Dealing Stocks,” Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Hawaii, May, 2002.

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Students

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Teaching & Advising

• The most preferred way to make an appointment is to click the Advising Campaign link in the email that Dr. Yan will send you.
• Or, you can make appointments at gradesfirst.wcu.edu, or go to myWCU and select Advising/Tutoring.
• Follow the steps on how to make an appointment.

You can plan your next semester’s schedule by exploring the list of classes at:

• Dynamic Class Schedule Search

You can find a suggested eight-semester plan by clicking on the appropriate link for your major:

• ECET Eight-Semester Plan
• EE Eight-Semester Plan
• ET Eight-Semester Plan
• BSE ME Eight-Semester Plan

You also need to satisfy liberal studies requirement (Core and Perspective):

• Everything about Liberal Studies at WCU

You could substitute some introductory engineering courses and liberal arts courses:

• NC Pathway articulation between NC state universities and community colleges
• NCCC liberal studies equivalences
• Transient permission procedure, Transient permission form, if the course substitution is not listed above

Other helpful information:

• Understand NC Promise from Fall 2018
• Registration Intro
• How to do degree audit and search classes
• Student Forms
• Current Catalog to understand course description and program requirement
• Academic Calendar
• WCU Honors College
• NSF (National Science Foundation) REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Program, see the news of our students being awarded this opportunity.
• Financial Aid Information
• Before fall 2019, 50% Tuition Surcharge After 140 In-State Credit Hours (no matter in what major or in which university). It is removed from fall 2019.
• Weather Forecast (please keep your email and phone number updated in MyWCU in case of snow day class cancellations)

The courses that I have taught or am teaching:

• Undergraduate Courses:
  • ECET 221 Digital Integrated Circuit Lab
  • ECET 231 Circuit Analysis I
  • ECET 242 Electronic Circuits
  • ECET 321 Circuit Analysis II
  • ECET 464 Instrumentation
  • EE 200 Computer Utilization
  • EE 211 Instrumentation and Networks Laboratory
  • EE 311 Electronic Devices Laboratory
  • EE 424 Digital Signal Processing
  • ENGR 199 Introduction to Engineering Practices and Principles I.  Fall 2018 Rube Goldberg Machines, Fall 2020 Save Halloween!
  • ENGR 365 Global Engineering and Technology
  • ENGR 402 System Dynamics and Control
  • ENGR 493 Special topics on Arduino Programming.  Spring 2019 TouchBoard Projects
• Graduate Courses:
  • ET 593 Special topics on Digital Image Processing
  • ET 593 Special topics on Technical Problem Solving
  • ET 593 Special topics on Data Acquisition and LabVIEW Programming
  • ET 644 Advanced Digital Signal Processing
  • ET 645 Random Variables, Signals and Waveforms

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Services

Serving in Technical Program Committees

• International Conference on Information Fusion 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010
• SSIAI (IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation), 2018, 2016
• SDPC (International Conference on Sensing, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Control) 2018, 2017
• IEEE ICPHM (IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management) 2018, 2017, 2016
• ANTS (International Conference on Swarm Intelligence) 2016, 2014
• ICCAIS 2015 (The International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences)
• I4CT 2015 (International Conference on Computer, Communications, and Control Technology)
• VTC 2014-Spring (Vehicular Technology Conference) and VTC 2012-Spring
• ICMCE 2014 (International Conference on Mechanics and Control Engineering)
• BDM (Biological inspired techniques for data mining) workshop in PAKDD, 2013, 2011
• On Multi-media Communications Networks in the Session of Sensor Networks & Distributed Computation in the Complex Adaptive Systems Conference, 2011
• WAC 2008 (IADIS International Conference on Wireless Applications and Computing 2008)

Reviewer for Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
• Journal of Electronic Imaging by IS&T and SPIE (JEI)
• Soft Computing Journal
• Swarm Intelligence Journal
• International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management (IJPHM)
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• IEEE Sensors Journal
• Machine Vision and Applications Journal
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)
• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES)
• IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
• IEEE Communications Letters
• Optical Engineering
• International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics
• International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering
• International Journal of Image and Graphics
• International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

Reviewer Manager or Reviewer for Other Conferences

• North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 2017, 2023
• Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2017
• IEEE SouthEastCon 2017
• PHM Conference (International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management) 2015, 2011, 2010, 2009
• European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2014
• ACC (American Control Conference) 2014
• IEEE WCNIS2010-Communication Theory and Signal Processing 2010
• GC’09-WNS (IEEE GlobeCom Conference 2009 Wireless Networking Symposium)
• SIS 2008 (IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium Conference) 2008

WCU Campus Service

• WCU IRB Committee, 2018-2021, 2021-2024
• WCU Faculty-led Committee, 2016-2019
• WCU Council on Inclusive Excellence, 2018-2019
• WCU Liberal Studies Committee, 2016-2019
• WCU Graduate Council, 2017-2022
• WCU Institutional Review Board, 2018-2021
• WCU International Faculty and Staff Council, 2017-2019
• WCU Math Tutoring Center’s Assessment Team, 2017
• University Budget Committee, 2016-2017
• University NSB Planning: Pedagogy Committee, 2016-2017
• WCU CET Strategic Direction Taskforce, 2016-2017
• Department Scholarship Coordinator, 2014-2019
• WCU First Year Experience (FYE) Cabinet, 2015-2017
• WCU One Book Selection Committee, 2014-2016
• Department Peer Review of Teaching Materials committee, 2013-2016
• Department Collegial Review Document Committee, 2015-2016
• Provost Office’s Student Community Ethics Committee, 2013-2016
• Kimmel School Dean’s Advisory Committee, 2015-2017
• Kimmel School Technology Advisory Committee, 2014-2016
• University Scholarship Committee, 2013-2014, 2017-2018

ASEE International Division:

• Chair-Elect: 2023-2025
• Program Chair: 2022-2023
• Volunteer on Bylaw Revision, etc: 2020-2021

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