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Daniel Apley

Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech M235
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

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Departments

Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

Affiliations

Master of Science in Machine Learning and Data Science Program

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Education

PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

MS Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

MS Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI


Research Interests

Statistical modeling and analysis of engineering, industrial, and enterprise systems; machine learning and predictive analytics; quality engineering and six sigma; manufacturing process diagnosis and control


Selected Publications

  • Zhang, K., Apley, D. W., Chen, W., Liu, W. K., and Brinson, C., “A Framework for Supervised and Unsupervised Segmentation and Classification of Materials Microstructure Images,” Acta Materialia,301(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2025.121588, 2025.
  • Yerramilli, S. and Apley, D. W., “Fractional cross-validation for optimizing hyperparameters of supervised learning algorithms,” Technometrics, 67(4), pp. 683—692, https://doi.org/10.1080/00401706.2025.2515926, 2025.
  • Zhang, S., and Apley, D. W., “Interpretable Architecture Neural Networks for Function Visualization,” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 32:4, 1258-1271, DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2023.2195461, 2023.
  • Zhang, K., Bui, A. T., and Apley, D. W., "Concept Drift Monitoring and Diagnostics of Supervised Learning Models via Score Vectors," Technometrics, https://doi.org/10.1080/00401706.2022.2124310, 2022. Received the Wilcoxon Prize for best practical application paper appearing in Technometrics.
  • Sürer, Ö., Apley, D. W., and Malthouse, E. C., "Coefficient Tree Regression: Fast, Accurate and Interpretable Predictive Modeling," Machine Learning, to appear, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-021-06091-7, November, 2021.
  • Zhang, K., Apley, D. W., and Chen, W. "Nonstationarity Analysis of Materials Microstructures via Fisher Score Vectors," Acta Materialia, 211(1), 116818, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.116818, 2021.
  • Yang, R., Apley, D. W., Staum, J., and Ruppert D., "Density Deconvolution with Additive Measurement Errors using Quadratic Programming," Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 29:3, pp. 580-591, https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2019.1704294, 2020.
  • Apley, D. W. and Zhu, J., "Visualizing the Effects of Predictor Variables in Black Box Supervised Learning Models", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology), 82(4), pp. 1059–1086, DOI: 10.1111/rssb.12377, 2020.
  • Zhang, Y., Tao, S., Chen, W., and Apley, D. W., "Latent Variable Approach to Gaussian Process Modeling with Qualitative and Quantitative Factors," Technometrics,62:3, pp. 291-302, DOI: 10.1080/00401706.2019.1638834, 2020.