Jian Bo Yang

Jian-Bo is Professor and Chair of Decision and System Sciences, and has conducted research throughout his career in the areas of evidential reasoning and probabilistic inference, multiple criteria decision analysis, data analytics, multiple objective optimisation, decision support systems, intelligent modelling, simulation and prediction, risk, safety and security analysis, performance analysis, new product development, production and resource management, etc.

As a principal investigator or co-investigator, he has been awarded 49 major research projects by various funding bodies in the UK, EU, China and USA, with a total value of over £3.78m, including 17 EPSRC and ESRC funded projects totalling £1.97m.

He has collaborated widely with many organisations in research and consultancy, and has published 177 journal papers, 4 books, 23 book chapters, 160 publications in conference proceedings, and many reports. He has also designed and developed several large software packages including a Windows-based Intelligent Decision System (IDS) for multiple criteria assessment.

Additional Information

He teaches at all undergraduate and MSc/MBA levels:

• First Year - Quantitative Methods for Management (module co-ordinator and lecturer)
• Second Year - OR: Introduction to Linear Programming (module co-ordinator & lecturer)
• Third Year - OR: Decision Analysis for Business and Management (module co-ordinator & lecturer)
• MSc in Business Analytics - Risk, Performance and Decision Analysis
• Part-time Executive MBA - Statistics and Decision Analysis for Management

Professor Yang has supervised many PhD and MPhil student research projects, a large number of MSc student dissertations, and lots of visiting scholars in recent years.

Research interests

• Professor Yang has published four books and over 200 papers in journals and a similar number of papers in conferences.

Books

• J. B. Yang , "Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis Methods and Applications ." Hunan Publishing House, Changsha, P. R. China, 1996, 409 pages, ISBN 7-5438-1508-7 (in Chinese).
• P. Sen and J. B. Yang , "Multiple Criteria Decision Support in Engineering Design ." Springer-Verlag, London, 1998, 261 pages, ISBN 3-540-19932-2.
• G. P. Liu, J. B. Yang and J. F. Whidborne, "Multiobjective Optimisation and Control .” Engineering Systems Modelling and Control Series, Research Studies Press Limited, Baldock, Hertfordshire, England, 2002, 320 pages, ISBN 0-86380-278-8.
• Z. J. Zhou, J. B. Yang, C. H. Hu and D. L. Xu, “Belief Rule Base Expert Systems and Complex System Modelling.” Science Publisher, Beijing, China, 2011, 139 pages, ISBN 978-7-00-000000-0.