System reliability and maintenance optimization, Operations research, and Supply chain and inventory management

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, 12/2005

M.S., Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, 12/2002

M.S., Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston (Singapore-MIT Alliance), 07/2001

B.E., Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 07/2000 

   

• Remaining-useful-lifetime and system-remaining- profit based importance measures for decisions on preventive maintenance, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021
• The optimal recovery-fund based strategy for uncertain supply chain disruptions: A risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming approach, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2021
• A model-based reinforcement learning approach for maintenance optimization of degrading systems in a large state space, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021
• Component rearrangement and system replacement for a system with stochastic degradation processes, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2021
• A joint long short-term memory and AdaBoost regression approach with application to remaining useful life estimation, Measurement, 2021
• Joint optimization of condition-based maintenance and inventory control for a k-out-of-n:F system of multi-state degrading components, European Journal of Operational Research, 2021
• Optimum component reallocation and system replacement maintenance for a used system with increasing minimal repair cost, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2020
• Dynamic maintenance policy for systems with repairable components subject to mutually dependent competing failure processes, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020
• Optimum reassignment of degrading components for non-repairable systems, IISE Transactions, 2020
• Managing component degradation in series systems for balancing degradation through reallocation and maintenance, IISE Transactions, 2020
• Reliability Assessment of a Continuous-state Fuel Cell Stack System with Multiple Degrading Components, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2019
• Integrated system design and preventive maintenance planning using risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming for high-consequence systems, European Journal of Operational Research, 2019
• Optimum periodic component reallocation and system replacement maintenance, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2019
• Optimal decisions on product reliability, sales and promotion under nonrenewable warranties, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2019
• Importance-measure based methods for component reassignment problem of degrading components, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2019
• Design and maintenance for the data storage system considering system rebuilding process, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2019
• Combined redundancy allocation and maintenance planning using a two-stage stochastic programming model for multiple component systems, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2018
• Optimal system design and sequential preventive maintenance under uncertain aperiodic-changing stresses, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2018
• A linear weighted (n,f,k) system for non-homogeneous Markov-dependent components, IIE Transactions, 2017
• Birnbaum importance based heuristics for multi-type component assignment problems, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2017
• Reliability and joint reliability importance in a consecutive-k-within-m-out-of-n:F system with Markov-dependent components, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2016
• Joint reliability importance in a consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system and an m-consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system for Markov-dependent components, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2015
• A stochastic inventory model for an immediate liquidation and price-promotion decision under price-dependent demand, International Journal of Production Research, 2015
• Importance measures in reliability and mathematical programming, Annals of Operations Research , 2014
• Estimation of gross profit for a new durable product considering warranty and post-warranty repairs, IIE Transactions, 2014
• Vehicle fuel consumption minimization in routing over-dimensioned and overweight trucks in capacitated transportation networks, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013
• Implementation of a three-stage approach for the dynamic resource-constrained shortest-path sub-problem in branch-and-price, Computers and Operations Research, 2013
• Patterns of the Birnbaum importance in linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems, IIE Transactions , 2012
• Reliability study for ultra-thin dielectric films with variable thickness levels , IIE Transactions , 2012
• Relations and generalizations of importance measures in reliability, IEEE Transactions on Reliability , 2012
• Some recent advances on importance measures in reliability, IEEE Transactions on Reliability , 2012
• A three-stage approach for the resource-constrained shortest path as a sub-problem in column generation, Computers and Operations Research, 2012
• Intelligent dynamic control of stochastic economic lot scheduling by agent-based reinforcement learning, International Journal of Production Research, 2012
• Heuristics for component assignment problems based on the Birnbaum importance, IIE Transactions, 2011
• Challenges and models in supporting logistics system design for biomass-to-bioenergy industry, Bioresource Technology , 2011
• Logistics system design for biomass-to-bioenergy industry with multiple types of feedstock, Bioresource Technology , 2011

[1]     Way Kuo and Xiaoyan Zhu, Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk, and Optimization: Principles and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK. 472 pp. June 2012, ISBN: 978-1-11. The book has been translated to Chinese version. 

CAS Excellent Supervisor Award, 2021