Speaker

Soumaya Yacout

Biography :

Soumaya Yacout is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal in Canada. She is also the owner, President and CEO of DEXIN Inc. She earned her doctoral degree in Operations Research, her bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and her master’s in industrial engineering. She designed and taught courses on quality engineering, reliability and maintenance, and discrete event simulation. Her main research is in the analytics of faults and maintenance. She has publications in peer-reviewed journals including Quality Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Expert Systems with Applications, and papers in international conferences, some of which received the best paper award. She is the co-editor and the co-writer of a book on minimal repair and interoperability. She has a patent on data-driven maintenance with machine learning.