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Dr. Tim Young
UTIA School of Natural Resources
Professor Emeritus, and Interim Director, UT Data Science Institute

AI Impacts for Timber Industry

Timothy M. Young is Professor Emeritus and Interim Director of the Data Science Institute in the School of Natural Resources, University of Tennessee. He has Ph.D. in Natural resources (focus on statistics and machine learning) and M.S. in Statistics (minor in Operations Research) from the University of Tennessee. He also holds M.S. and B.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He teaches highly successful industry courses in ‘Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning’, ‘Data Analytics and Variation Reduction’ and ‘Design of Experiments for Rapid Innovation’ to a large number of companies at national and international locations since 2000. His currently is heavily involved in the data sciences in: 1) advanced analytical modeling, machine learning and AI applications; 2) automated data fusion and Total data Quality Management (TqDM); 3) statistical visualization and real-time predictive analytics. He has four years of manufacturing experience with Georgia-Pacific Corporation. He has participated in grants from the private and public sectors totaling more than $50 million. He has successfully mentored more than 36 M.S. and Ph.D. students combined.

He has 323 scientific publications of which 106 appear in refereed journals. He has given more than 500 professional presentations and has been an invited keynote speaker at 27 scientific meetings. He is an invited lecturer and adjunct professor at BOKU University, Vienna, and Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; and the Technical University of Munich Germany since 2010. Tim has extensive invited international speaking engagements and customized training courses for industry in Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Romania, and Wales. He has been the invited keynote speaker at annual technical director and quality manager meetings of several large corporations. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Specialist (Statistics) in 2014|2016 in Austria.

Tim was awarded the University of Wisconsin CALS ‘Outstanding Alumni of the Year’ in 2018 and ‘Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science’ in 2019. He is current Head of the Industrial Engineering Unit and Director of the Center for AI and Data Science (CDS) of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Greece. Leadership experience includes past President of the Forest Products Society (FPS). Tim is an active member of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and American

Society of Quality (ASQ).

Research Gate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy_Young2

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-young-ba93772a/

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