Speakers - Symposium

Biography

Professor Alain Bensoussan is Chair Professor of Risk and Decision Analysis at the City University of Hong Kong. He is the Ashbel Smith Professor and Director of the International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has been a full Professor at the University of Paris-Dauphin (since 1969), Emeritus since 2004. At Ajou University, he has been the WCU Distinguished Professor since 2010. Professor Bensoussan served as President of INIRA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) from 1984 to 1996; President of CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) from 1996 to 2003, and Chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA) Council from 1999 to 2002. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Technologies, Academia Europae, and the International Academy of Astronautics. His distinctions include AMS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, SIAM Fellow, Von Humboldt Price, and NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. Professor Bensoussan is a decorated Officer of Legion d'Honneur, Commandeur of Ordre National du Merite and Officer of Bundes Verdienst Kreuz.

Biography

Suk Joo Bae (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, in 2003. From 1996 to 1999, he served as a Reliability Engineer with Samsung SDI, South Korea. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. He has published more than 60 articles in journals, such as Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, IISE Transactions, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability. His research interests include centered on reliability evaluation of light displays, nanodevices, and battery systems, including fuel cells via accelerated life and degradation testing, fault diagnoses and prognostics for condition-based maintenance, and process monitoring for large-volumed on-line sensing data. He is a member of INFORMS.

Biography

David Coit is a Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA, and he has had visiting professor positions at Universite Paris-Saclay, in France; Tsinghua University, in China; and KMUTT, in Thailand. His current teaching and research involves system reliability modeling and optimization, and energy systems optimization. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability and Journal of Risk and Reliability and for 15 years was a Department Editor for IISE Transactions. He has over 130 published journal papers and over 100 peer-reviewed conference papers, including the paper with the most citations ever in Reliability Engineering & System Safety, and 4th highest citation count in IEEE Transactions in Reliability. His research has been funded by USA National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, industry, and power utilities. He was the recipient of the McElroy award, Alain O. Plait award and Golomski award for best papers and tutorials at the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS). Prof. Coit received a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MS and PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a fellow of IISE.

Biography

Dr. Elsayed is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University. He is also the Director of the NSF/ Industry/ University Co-operative Research Center for Quality and Reliability Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of quality and reliability engineering and Production Planning and Control. He is a co-author of Quality Engineering in Production Systems, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1989. He is also the author of Reliability Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1996. These two books received the 1990 and 1997 IIE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award respectively. His recent book Reliability Engineering 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2012 received the 2013 Outstanding IIE Publication.

Dr. Elsayed is a frequent keynote speakers in National and International Conferences and is the recipient of many awards including Golomski Award for the outstanding paper, William Mong Distinguished Lecturers Award, David F. Baker Research Award of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for Research Contributions to the discipline of Industrial Engineering, , inducted member of the Russian Academy for Quality, IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers) Fellow Award, ASME Fellow, Senior Fulbright Award and the Recipient of 2011 Thomas Alva Edison Award for US Patent 7,115,089 B2.

Biography

Kang Rui is a professor and PhD supervisor as well as Chief Engineer and Chair of the Academic Committee of the School of Reliability and Systems Engineering of Beihang University. He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from Beihang University in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He was selected as a distinguished professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program.

Prof. Kang mainly researches on the theory and technology of reliability system engineering, reliability design and test theory and methods of highly reliable and long-life products, comprehensive equipment support theory and technology, and modeling and evaluation technology of cyber-physical system reliability.

He has published seven monographs, two translations and two Beijing quality teaching materials. He presided over the development of a set of national military standard and published over 240 academic papers, over 30 of which was in journals indexed by SCI. He has won a second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, seven provincial and ministry-level science and technology progress awards and obtained 18 invention patents. At present, he is a Chief Technical Officer of the National Defense 973 Program, the leader of the reliability technology professional group and the expert panel for the quality reliability and airworthiness of large military transport aircraft, Director of the Academic Committee of the National Key Laboratory of Reliability and Environmental Engineering Technology, Chief Editor of Reliability Engineering and an editor of Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica.

Biography

Dr. Yan-Fu Li is currently the Director of the Institute for Quality & Reliability and a full professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering (IE), Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from National University of Singapore in 2010. He was a faculty member at Laboratory of Industrial Engineering at CentraleSupelec, France, from 2011 to 2016. His research areas include RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability, safety) assessment and optimization with the applications onto energy systems, transportation systems, computing systems, etc.

Dr. Li has published more than 100 research papers, including more than 80 peer-reviewed international journal papers with H-index 30. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, a member of IEEE Reliability Society AdCom, a senior member of IEEE and IISE and a member of INFORMS. He is a vice president of the System Reliability Chapter of System Engineering Society of China. He is an expert examiner of funding agencies include NSFC, Dutch Research Council (NWO).

He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of several government projects including the key project funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, the project in National Key R&D Program of China, and participated in several projects supported by EU or French funding bodies. He is also experienced in industrial research, the partners include Huawei, JD, China Railway, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, EDF, ALSTOM, etc. The total amount of funding exceeds 20 million CNY.

Biography

Dr. Li is a full professor at the Institute of Human Factors and Human-System Interaction, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in Manufacturing Engineering and Automation from Tsinghua University in 1993, 1995, and 1999, respectively. Dr. Li has been working for Tsinghua University since he received his PhD degree.

His current research areas include human-machine teaming, interaction with intelligent systems, interface design, human error, human factors evaluation, system safety, and other human factors issues associated with complex industrial systems.

In 2005, Dr. Li was selected into the "Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University" of Ministry of Education, China. Dr. Li has published more than 100 research papers, including more than 70 peer-reviewed international journal papers. As principle investigators, Dr. Li got one key project and three other projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and six projects from international sources. Dr. Li received the President's Medal Award from the Ergonomics society in 2008 as a faculty member of the Institute of Human Factors and Ergonomics and a National Science & Technology Award (first prize, , the No.9 awardee) in 2005.

Dr. Li has been serving or served as an Editorial/advisory Board Member for the Scientific Reports (2017.9-present), International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (2016.1-present), International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (2006.1-2010.5, 2011.1-present), Human factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries (2009.1-present), and Applied Ergonomics (2007.5-2010.3). He also served as a Regional Chinese Submission Editor for the international journal of Reliability Engineering & System Safety during 2004-2007. Dr. Li is an academic member of National Standardization Technology Committee on Ergonomics (TC7), Reliability Committee of Chinese Operations Research Society, Committee of Chinese Ergonomics Society, and Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Biography

Professor Bin Liu is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Management Science. He joined Strathclyde in Jan 2019 as a Lecturer. Before that he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Professor Bin Liu received the BE degree in automation from Zhejiang University, China in 2013, and the PhD degree in industrial engineering from City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong in 2017. His research interests include risk & reliability analysis, intelligent asset management, decision making under uncertainty, and data analytics. He focuses on developing new methods to solve real problems, with applications in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, utilities (water, transportation, infrastructure), and energy.

Biography

Shubin SI is a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. His research interests include resilience theory for complex networks, importance measures and system reliability optimization, and fault diagnosis based on entropy.

Shubin Si (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in management science and engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi'an, China, in 1997, 2002, and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Industrial Engineering with the School of Mechanical Engineering, NPU. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 academic papers and articles in journals and conferences in the past five years. He also headed and participated in seven government supported foundations and more than ten enterprise supported projects. His research interests include importance measures, system reliability optimization, and fault diagnosis.

Biography

Sheng-Tsaing Tseng is a Professor at the Institute of Statistics at Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. from Tamkang University, Taiwan. His current research interests include quality & reliability improvement, and statistical decision methodology. His articles have appeared in numerous technical journals. Dr. Tseng is an elected member of ISI, and a member of ASQ. He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability from 2000 to 2004

Biography

Prof Jun Yang is with the School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University. His scientic interests include reliability modeling, applied statistics, statistical process monitoring. He received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Yantai University in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in probability and statistics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2006. He has published 2 national standards, 7 scholarly monographs and 100+ journal papers, where 60 papers are indexed by SCI

Jun Yang received the B.S. degree from Yantai University, Yantai, China, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2006.,He is currently a Professor with the School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing. His scientific interests include reliability modeling, applied statistics, and statistical process monitoring.