Dr. Jay Lee is Clark Distinguished Professor and Director of Industrial Artificial Intelligence Center in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of the Univ. of Maryland College Park.

Previously, he served as an Ohio Eminent Scholar, L.W. Scott Alter Chair and Univ. Distinguished Professor at Univ. of Cincinnati. He was Founding Director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems during 2001-2019. IMS Center has developed research memberships with over 100 global companies since 2000 and was selected as the most economically impactful I/UCRC in the NSF Economic Impact Study Report in 2012. He is also the Founding Director of Industrial AI Center. He mentored his students and developed a number of start-up companies including Predictronics through NSF iCorp in 2013 and has won 1st Place for PHM Society Data Challenges competition 5 times.

He was on leave from UC to serve as Vice Chairman and Board Member for Foxconn Technology Group during 2019-2021 to lead the development of Foxconn Wisconsin Science Park in Mt. Pleasant, WI. In addition, he advised Foxconn business units to successfully receive five WEF Lighthouse Factory Awards since 2019.

He is a member of Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Production of the World Economics Council (WEF), a member of Board of Governors of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Council of National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), Board of Trustees of MTConnect, as well as a senior advisor to McKinsey. Previously, he served as Director for Product Development and Manufacturing at United Technologies Research Center (now Raytheon Technologies Research Center) as well as Program Director for a number of programs at NSF.

He was selected as 30 Visionaries in Smart Manufacturing by SME in Jan. 2016 and 20 most influential professors in Smart Manufacturing in June 2020, and received SME Eli Whitney Productivity Award and SME/NAMRC S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award in 2022. His new book on Industrial AI was published by Springer in 2020.