Young-Jun Son

Young-Jun Son is a professor of systems and industrial engineering, a da Vinci Fellow, an Arizona Engineering Faculty Fellow, and Director of the Advanced Integration of Manufacturing Systems and Technologies Program at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on modeling and control of complex manufacturing and service enterprises, distributed federation of multi-paradigm simulations, and modeling human decision-making and social behaviors. A member of IEEE, he received the SME 2004 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, the IIE 2005 Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer Award, the IERC Best Paper Awards (in 2005, 2008 and 2009), and Best Paper of the Year Award in 2007 from IJIE.