Yiming Deng, Ph.D., ASNT Fellow (class of 2021)
Professor, Director of Graduate Program
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory
Yiming Deng is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the
College of Engineering, at Michigan State University,
USA. He is serving as the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Director of Graduate Program of ECE. He leads the Nondestructive Evaluation
Laboratory and is also an affiliated faculty member of Composite Vehicle Research Center.
Prof. Yiming Deng's current research focuses on NDE
for Advanced Manufacturing, NDE 4.0 and 5.0, AI enabled NDE/SHM systems
with Uncertainty Quantification (UQ), and Statistical Methods in NDE
(Causal Inference, Learning).
Prof. Deng is an Associate Editor
of IEEE Transactions on
Reliability
(IEEE TREL), IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (IEEE TMAG), Research in
Nondestructive Evaluation (RNDE), Materials Evaluation (ME); Prof. Deng is an Subject Editor of Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (Taylor & Francis) and Editorial Board Member
of Scientific Reports (Nature). Prof. Deng is the Guest Editor of
International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics in
2024.
He regularly serves as Panelist and Reviewer for
National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Energy (DOE), US
Department of Transportation (DOT), US Department of Defense (DOD),
Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and Hong Kong RGC and
over 40 scientific journals. He
is a Fellow of ASNT(Class of 2021), Senior Member of IEEE, Member of ASEE, MSU AGE Fellow. He is a Research Council member of IEEE and ASNT,
International Standing Committee member of ENDE and ISEM, and TPC members for
various international conferences.
In 2018, Prof. Deng was appointed by U.S. Transportation Secretary as
one of the 24 VIS-WG members and special government employees (SGE)
under Federal Advisory Committee Act. [news release]
Prof. Deng is co-General Chair of ISEM2025 and ENDE2025, and Program Committee member of ASNT Research Symposium from 2023-2025. Prof. Deng served as the General Chair
of the 23rd International
Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation Workshop, and served as
Program Chair of IEEE PHM Conference in 2024.. He was co-Editor of the
special issue of ISTP indexed book series "Study on Applied
Electromagnetics and Mechanics" in 2019. Prof. Deng received ASNT Faculty Grant Award
(2010, 2017), Best Paper Award/Best Student Paper Award (ANTEC2019, IEEE/ASME AIM2024) and Best Poster Award
(ISEM2019, ENDE2018, SPE-ACCE2018), ASNT Fellowship Award (2021) with his PhD students, he is one of
the recipients of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s Better
Way Award.
Prof Deng was invited Keynote Speakers of IEEE PHM2020 (China), ISEM2022 (Greece), ENDE2024 (India), Int. Symp. NDT&AI for High-speed Transport 2024 (China).
His broad research interests include electromagnetic and acoustic
nondestructive evaluation (NDE), structural health monitoring (SHM) for
multi-scale, multi-resolution, and multi-parameter damage diagnosis and
prognosis; applied electromagnetics and acoustics, and computational
modeling. His research work has been extensively supported by federal
agencies and private sectors for the development of novel NDE/SHM actuators and sensors,
sensing systems that involve multi-physics simulations for
understanding the physics, experimental validation and verification
(V&V), as well as actuators/sensors prototyping and fabrication for
a wide range of engineering applications to assure safety-critical
defense, energy and transportation infrastructure safety, security,
durability, reliability and sustainability.
Nationality: American
Related News: [Creating a new technology, 2021] [Named ASNT Fellow, 2021] [Next Generation NDE, 2018] [Road 2 Composites, 2017] [AGE Fellow, 2017]
- Eduation and Background
- Research Projects, Grants and Contracts: 18 active grants as of April 2022, over $6M awarded to Dr. Deng as PI or co-PI (total amount is ~$16.5M)
from NSF, DoD, DOT, DOE, ONR, NIH, GTI, EPRI, ASNT, NJH and industry.
- Publications: reprints and preprints, 104 journals as of September 2023, over 120 conferences papers/presentations, 1 book and 4 book chapters.
- Course Information:Circuits
and Systems II (F2017, F2018, F2021, F2024), Electromagnetic Fields
and Waves I (S2018), Sensors Technologies for NDE
(F2019), Electrical Engineering Analysis (S2020), Introduction to
Signal Processing (S2021, F2023), ECE Senior Design Capstone (S2021,
S2024)
- Teaching Interests and Advising: Great teachers are the reason why students dream to do extraordinary things.
- Professional
Services: Membership; Editorship; Committee Members and Session
Chairs; Department, College and University-level Service;
Outreach and Community Service, Journal Referee, etc.
- Graduate students and Visiting scholars: If you would like to join NDEL and work with me, please read.
- Current NDEL Members (FS24): Yiming Deng (PI), X. Huang
(PhD student), O. Elshafiey (PhD student), L. Peng (PhD student), Y.
Kotriwar (PhD student), J. Hu (PhD student), A. Bodea (MS student), F.
Li (BS, MS, PA), C. Fike (BS student, PA), X. Cai (BS student),K.B. Khan (Fulbright Scholar, Assoc. Prof.)
- Undergraduate students and interns:
If you would like to find an exciting and interesting topic for your
capstone/senior design project or summer research internship, please
read.
- Collaborators
- Meetings and Schedules
- Miscellaneous Links: Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory, Google Scholar Citations, Conferences, Curriculum Vitae, etc.
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Contact:
Yiming Deng, Ph.D.
2325B Engineering Building
Department of Electircal and Computer Engineering
428 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824
Michigan State University
Office Phone: 517-884-0926
Email:
dengyimi AT egr DOT msu DOT edu

