Dr. Ruifeng Yu is an associate professor in the industrial engineering department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research areas cover visual search, visual cognition, work organization and Human-autonomous systems collaboration and interaction in the region of human factors and ergonomics.Currently, he is the member of Tsinghua University Admission Committee for graduate students, the secretary general and executive council member of China Ergonomics Society, the council member of International Ergonomics Association, the council member of Asian Council of Ergonomics and Design, the council member of Managerial Innovation Branch of Innovation Method Association of the Ministry of Science & Technology of China, the council member of Industrial Engineering & Management Branch of Management Science & Engineering Society of China. He is the editor of International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, associate editor of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries, editorial board of Journal of Transportation Technologies and editorial board of Chinese Journal of Ergonomics.

As the principal investigator, he has managed three projects funded by national natural science foundation, one project funded by the National Key Technology R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, five projects funded by international companies and has led more than 30 projects funded by governmental agencies or industries. As the first or second author, he has published more than 60 papers in international and domestic journals, in which 35 papers are indexed by SCI or/and SSCI.

Work innovation award of graduate school of Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University Excellent Course Award

Presidential Award of British Ergonomics Society

2000-2004, PhD, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

1994-1997, Master, School of Management, Tianjin University

1988-1992, Bachelor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University

2004-present, associate professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University

2001-2004, lecturer, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University

1997-2001, teaching assistant, lecturer, Dept. of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University

1992-1994, assistant engineer, Tianjin Motor Works

1.Undergraduate

Human factors engineering

Essentials of management

2.Graduate

Work organization

Marketing

Visual search and cognition

Work organization

Human-autonomous systems collaboration and interaction

1. Na Liu, Ruifeng Yu. Social facilitation effect in search and decision‐making components of visual inspection. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries. 2019, 29, 224–232 (SSCI & SCI)

2. Na Liu, Ruifeng Yu*. Investigation of force, contact area, and dwell time in finger-tapping tasks. Ergonomics. 2018，61（11）：1519–1529. (SSCI & SCI)

3. Na Liu, Ruifeng Yu*. Determining effects of virtually and physically present co-actor in evoking social facilitation. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries. Accepted and Published online.https://doi.org/10.1002/hfm.20743 (SSCI & SCI)

4. Lin-dong Yang, Rui-feng Yu*, Xue-lian Lin, Ya-qing Xie and Liang Ma. Visual search tasks: measurement of dynamic visual lobe and relationship with display movement velocity. Ergonomics, 2018, 61(2): 273-283. (SSCI & SCI)

5. Lindong Yang, Ruifeng Yu*, Xuelian Lin and Na Liu. Shape representation modulating the effect of motion on visual search performance. Scientific Reports. 2017, 7, 14920. (SCI)

6. Na Liu, Ruifeng Yu*, Lindong Yang, Xuelian Lin. Gender composition mediates social facilitation effect in co-action condition. Scientific Reports. 2017, 7, 15073. (SCI)

7. Na Liu, Ruifeng Yu*. Influence of social presence on eye movements in visual search tasks. Ergonomics. 2017, 60(12): 1667-1681 (SSCI & SCI)

8. Na Liu, Ruifeng Yu*. Identifying design feature factors critical to acceptance and usage behavior of smartphones. Computers in Human Behavior, 2017, 70: 131-142(SSCI)

9. Ruifeng Yu*, Lin-dong Yang and Xin Wu. Risk Factors and Visual Fatigue of Baggage X-ray Security Screeners: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis. Ergonomics, 2017, 60(5): 680-691. (SSCI & SCI)

10. Na Liu, Ruifeng Yu*. Effects of Font Size, Stroke Width, and Character Complexity on the Legibility of Chinese Characters. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries. 2016，26(3): 381–392 (SSCI & SCI)

11. Ruifeng Yu*, and Xin Wu. Working alone or in the presence of others: exploring social facilitation in baggage X-ray security screening tasks. Ergonomics. 2015, 58(6): 857-865 (SSCI & SCI)

12. Ruifeng Yu*, and Alan H.S. Chan. Display Movement Velocity and Dynamic Visual Search Performance. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries. 2015, 25(3): 269-278 (SSCI & SCI)

13. Ruifeng Yu, and Kai Way Li. Perceived Floor Slipperiness and Floor Roughness in a Gait Experiment. WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation. 2015, 50: 649-657(SSCI)

14. Ruifeng Yu*, Lin-Dong Yang, and Chang Liu. Effects of Target Prevalence and Speech Intelligibility on Visual Search Performance. Measurement & Control. 2015, 48(3): 87-91. (SCI)

15. Kai Way Li, Chien Wen Wang, Ruifeng Yu*. Modeling of Predictive Muscular Strength for Sustained One-Handed Carrying Task. WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2015, 52: 911-919. (SSCI)

16. Ruifeng Yu*, Lindong Yang. Age-related changes in visual lobe shape characteristics and their relationship to visual search performance. Ergonomics, 2014, 57(9): 1300–1314 (SSCI & SCI)

17. Ruifeng Yu*. Effect of background music on maximum acceptable weight of manual lifting tasks. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2014, 20(3): 437-445. (SSCI & SCI)

China invention patent: measurement methodology and related apparatus for dynamic visual lobe (patent No.：ZL201610542226.3), 2017

Member of Technical Program boards, International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, 2010-present