Operations research; Logistics, transportation, and supply chain management (director of the LTS lab); Advanced manufacturing and sustainability.

Mingzhou Jin directs the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE) and the FERSC Center (a DOT/UTC Tier-1 Center) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) and is a professor and Department Head at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He currently holds the John D. Tickle Professorship. His research interest includes sustainability, climate change, optimization, transportation and logistics, supply chain, additive and smart manufacturing, and energy efficiency. His research has been well sponsored with more than $19 million in grants and contracts from a board spectrum of federal, local government agencies and corporations including US National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, US Department of Transportation, US Department of Homeland Security, three state Departments of Transportation, Tennessee Valley Authority, American Trucking Associations, America Makes, FedEx, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Nissan, Schneider Electric, CyManII, Material Handling Industry, etc. In addition, he has received multiple research, teaching and service awards from professional organizations, Tickle College of Engineering (TCE), and the University of Tennessee, including 2020 UTK Chancellor’s Research and Creative Achievement Award and 2020 TCE Research Achieve Award. He also received TCE Teaching Fellow, Outstanding Advising, and Outstanding Service awards in the past five years. He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). Before joining UT, he worked at Mississippi State University for 10 years, from 2002 to 2011.