Rong Pan is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. He received his B.S. in Materials Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1995, M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the College of Engineering of Florida A&M University and the Florida State University in 1999, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2002. Before he came to ASU in Fall of 2006, Pan was an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Pan’s research interests include statistical quality control, reliability engineering, time series analysis and control, and supply chain management. He has published in Journal of Quality Technology, Journal of Applied Statistics, International Journal of Production Research, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, etc. His current research project is on modeling and analysis of profiled reliability testing using computation-intensive statistical methods and it is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). His previous projects were funded by U.S. Department of Education (DoEd), Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and GM.

Pan is a senior member of American Society of Quality (ASQ), and a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE), and Institute of Supply Management (ISM). He is currently serving as an associate editor of Journal of Quality Technology.