[Summary] [Research Interests] [Research Projects] [Career Experience] [Educational Background] [Teaching] [Publications] [Awards and Recognitions] [Professional Services] [Invited Lectures and Seminars] [Students Supervision] [中文版]

Summary:

Dr. Yan-Fu Li is currently the Director of the Institute for Quality & Reliability of Tsinghua University and a full professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering in Tsinghua University, China. From 2011 to 2016, he was a faculty member at CentraleSupélec in Université Paris-Saclay, France. His research areas mainly include system reliability and predicative maintenance with the applications onto transportation systems, telecom systems, etc. Dr. Li has published over 100 peer-reviewed high quality international journal papers. He is elected as the Highly Cited Chinese Researcher 2019-2022 by Elsevier and Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2022 by Stanford University. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of several government projects including the key project funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Key R&D Program of China. He is also experienced in industrial research, the long-term partners include the top enterprises such as Huawei, China Southern Power Grid, etc. He has won multiple national society and international society search/paper awards. He is currently an Associate Editor of Reliability Engineering & System Safety, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, a senior member of IEEE and IISE. He is a vice president of the System Reliability Chapter of System Engineering Society of China, evaluation expert of China Quality Award.

For more information, please visit my lab website: http://www2.ie.tsinghua.edu.cn/rrml/

Research Interests

• System Reliability
• Predictive Maintenance
• Quality Policy

Research Projects:

• 2018-2022, "Big-data driven methodologies for high availability of the high-speed railways ", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Key project 71731008, CNY 2.45MM. (PI: Principle Investigator)
• 2017-2020, "Comparison study of quality and reliability related standards ", National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2017YFF0209505, CNY 990K. (PI)
• 2019-2022, "Prognostics and health management of the railway vehicle running gears based on digital-twin technology ", Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation-Rail Transit Joint Research Program, L191022, CNY 290K. (PI)
• 2019-2022 "Intelligent fault diagnosis and health management system of industrial robots ", National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2018YFB1306100, CNY . (participant)
• 2015-2016, "Robust Scheduling of Wind Farm Power Generation Considering System Reliability ", Hubert Curien Partnerships (PHC) PROCORE – French Ministry of Foraging Affairs and International Development and University Grants Committee of Hong Kong. EUR 9.2K. (co-PI)
• 22012-2016, "REFERENCE, Research NEtwork on FlExible Risk AssEssmeNt and DeCision SciencE", within the PEOPLE MARIE CURIE ACTIONS for International Research Staff Exchange, in the FP7-Seventh Framework Program of the European Union, EUR 384.3K. (participate)

• 2020-2021, "Design of the intelligent maintenance system for high-speed train wheelset", Zhiqi Railway Equipment Co., LTD, CNY 800K.
• 2020-2021, "Intra-carriage noise source identification and condition-based maintenance for high-speed train wheel degradation", China Railway Xi'an Group, CNY 120K.
• 2020-2021, "Research on the inspection policy of hollow axles in high speed trains", China Railway Xi'an Group, CNY 130K.
• 2018-2020, "Optimal maintenance strategy determination under imperfect maintenance", China General Nuclear, CNY 600K.
• 2018-2019, "SDS reliability testing efficiency optimization", Huawei Machine Ltd, CNY 618K.
• 2018-2019, "Smart Meter and Measuring Terminals Security and Reliability Studies", China Southern Grid, CNY 930K.
• 2018-2019, "Standardization of evaluation flow and dataset for machine learning methods", Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, JPY 5.5MM.
• 2015-2016, "Methods for the construction of rule-bases by automatic learning from data recorded on railway transport components and systems", ALSTOM. EUR 36K.
• 2013-2016, "Development of methods for modeling degradation and maintenance of critical components and of a framework for integrating information and data of different nature ", Electricite’ de France (EDF)-Centrale Recherche SA (CRSA). EUR 571K.

Career Experience:

• 2018.01 – present: Deputy-Director, Institute for Quality & Reliability, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• 2016.09 – present: Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• 2011.01 – 2016.08: Assistant Professor - Professor, CentraleSupélec, Paris, France
• 2009.11 – 2010.10: Post-doc Research Associate, Department of Industrial & Information Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
• 2009.08 – 2009.10: Research Engineer, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Educational Background:

• 2005.08 – 2009.08: Ph.D. Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• 2001.09 – 2005.06: B.Eng. Software Engineering, Minor in Biological Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Teaching:

• 2019 – present: 30160253 Machine Learning and Big-Data, Fall semester
• 2019 – present: 40160813 Intelligent Engineering Systems, Fall semester

• 2017 – present: 90160203 Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, Spring semester
• 2017 – present: 60168032 Managerial Economics, (MEM)

[Summary] [Research Interests] [Research Projects] [Career Experience] [Educational Background] [Teaching] [Publications] [Awards and Recognitions] [Professional Services] [Invited Lectures and Seminars] [Students Supervision] [中文版]

Publications:

Journal publications

Reliability Modeling and Assessment

1. S. Wang, Y.F. Li*, Y. Wang. 2018. Hybrid uncertainty model for multi-state systems and linear programming-based approximations for reliability assessment. IISE Transactions. 50 (12), 1058- 1075. (Featured article)
2. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2018. A Comparison between Monte Carlo Simulation and Finite-Volume Scheme for Reliability Assessment of Multi-State Physics Systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 174, 1-11.
3. D. Tellbach, Y.F. Li*. 2018. Cyber-Attacks on Smart Meters in Household Nanogrid: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis. Energies. 11(2), 316.
4. E.M. Larsen, Y. Ding, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. Definitions of Generalized Multi-Performance Multi-State k-out-of-n System and its Reliability Evaluations. Reliability Engineering & System Safety (accepted).
5. I. Abdin, Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2017. Risk Assessment of Power Transmission Network Failures in a Uniform Pricing Electricity Market Environment. Energy. 138, 1042-1055.
6. H.D. Mo, Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2016. A System-of-Systems Framework for the Reliability Analysis of Distributed Generation System Accounting for the Impact of Degraded Communication Networks. Applied Energy. 183, 805-822.
7. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2016. Reliability Assessment of Systems Subject to Dependent Degradation and Random Shock Processes. IIE Transactions. 48(11), 1072-1085. (Featured article)
8. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. 2016. A Reliability Assessment Framework for Systems with Degradation Dependency by Combining Binary Decision Diagrams and Monte Carlo Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 46(11), 1556-1564.
9. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. 2016. Component Importance Measures for Components with Multiple Dependent Competing Degradation Processes and Subject to Maintenance. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 65(2), 547-557.
10. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2015. Fuzzy Reliability Assessment of Systems with Multiple Dependent Competing Degradation Processes. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 23(5), 1428-1438.
11. Y.F. Li*, S. Valla, E. Zio. 2015. Reliability Assessment of Generic Geared Wind Turbines by GTST-MLD Model and Monte Carlo Simulation. Renewable Energy. 83, 222-233.
12. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2015. Integrating Random Shocks into Multi-State Physics Models of Degradation Processes for Component Reliability Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 64(1), 154-166.
13. Y.F. Li, R. Peng. 2014. Availability modeling and optimization of dynamic multi-state series–parallel systems with random reconfiguration. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 127, 47-57.
14. Y.F. Li*, Y. Ding, E. Zio. 2014. Random Fuzzy Extension of the Universal Generating Function Approach for the Reliability Assessment of Multi-State Systems under Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainties. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 63(1), 13 - 25.
15. Z. Yang, Y.X. Chen, Y.F. Li, E. Zio, R. Kang. 2014. Smart Electricity Meter Reliability Prediction based on Accelerated Degradation Testing and Modeling. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 56, 209-219.
16. Y.F. Li*, E. Zio, Y.H. Lin. 2012. A Multistate Physics Model of Component Degradation Based on Stochastic Petri Nets and Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 61(4), 921-931.
17. Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2012. A Multi-State Model for the Reliability Assessment of a Distributed Generation System via Universal Generating Function. Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety. 106, 28–36.
18. Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2012. Uncertainty Analysis of the Adequacy Assessment Model of a Distributed Generation System. Renewable Energy. 41, 235-244.
19. Y. Ding, E. Zio, Y.F. Li, L. Cheng, Q. W. Wu. 2012. Definition of Multi-state Weighted k-out-of-n: F Systems. International Journal of Performability Engineering. 8(2), 217-219.
20. Y.F. Li, R. Peng. 2015. Service Reliability Modeling of Distributed Computing Systems with Virus Epidemics. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 39(18), 5681-5692.
21. C.T. Lin, Y.F. Li*. 2014. Rate-Based Queueing Simulation Model of Open Source Software Debugging Activities. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 40(11), 1075 – 1099.
22. Y.S. Dai, Y.P. Xiang, Y.F. Li, L.D. Xing. 2011. Consequence Oriented Self-Healing and Autonomous Diagnosis for Highly Reliable Systems and Software. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 60(2), 369 – 380.
23. X. Li, Y.F. Li, M. Xie, S.H. Ng. 2011. Reliability analysis and optimal version-updating for open source software. Information and Software Technology. 53(9), 929-936.
24. R. Peng, Y.F. Li, W.J. Zhang, Q.P. Hu. 2014. Testing effort dependent software reliability model for imperfect debugging process considering both detection and correction. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 126, 37–43.
25. R. Peng, Y.F. Li*, J.G. Zhang, X. Li. 2015. A risk-reduction approach for optimal software release time determination with the delay penalty cost. International Journal of Systems Science. 46(9), 1628-1637.

Reliability, Maintenance and Safety Optimization

26. S.M. Wang, Y.F. Li*, T. Jia. Distributionally Robust Design for Redundancy Allocation. INFORMS Journal on Computing (Accepted).
27. M. Du, Y.F. Li*. 2020. An investigation of new local search strategies in memetic algorithm for redundancy allocation in multi-state series-parallel systems. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 195, 106703.
28. H. Wu, Y.F. Li*. 2020. Optimal inspection and maintenance for a repairable k-out-of-n: G warm standby system. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 193, 106669.
29. S. Zhang, M.Y. Du, J.J. Tong, Y.F. Li*. 2019. Multi-objective Optimization of Maintenance Program in Multi-unit Nuclear Power Plant Sites. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 188, 532-548.
30. M.X. Sun, Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2019. On the Optimal Redundancy Allocation for Multi-State Series-Parallel Systems under Epistemic Uncertainty. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 192, 106019.
31. H. Long, Z.J. Zhang, M.X. Sun, Y.F. Li. 2018. A Data-Driven Robust Optimization Model for Wind Farm Operations. Energy. 149, 485-495.
32. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2018. A Framework for Modeling and Optimizing Maintenance in Systems Modeled by Piecewise-Deterministic Markov Processes Considering Epistemic Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 14(1), 210-220.
33. R. Mena, M. Hennebel, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. 2016. A multi-objective optimization framework for risk-controlled integration of renewable generation into electric power systems. Energy. 106, 712-727.
34. R. Rocchetta, Y.F. Li*, E. Zio. 2015. Risk Assessment and Risk-Cost Optimization of Distributed Power Generation Systems Considering Extreme Weather Conditions. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 136, 47-61.
35. E. Kuznetsova, C. Ruiz, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. 2015. Analysis of robust optimization for decentralized microgrid energy management under uncertainty. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems. 64, 815-832.
36. R. Mena, M. Hennebel, Y.F. Li, C. Ruiz, E. Zio. 2014. A Risk-Based Simulation and Multi-Objective Optimization Framework for the Integration of Distributed Renewable Generation and Storage. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. 37, 778-793.
37. R. Mena, M. Hennebel, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. 2014. A self-adaptable hierarchical clustering differential evolution for optimal integration of renewable distributed generation. Applied Energy. 133, 388-402.
38. E. Kuznetsova, Y.F. Li, C. Ruiz, E. Zio. 2014. An integrated framework of agent-based modelling and robust optimization for microgrid energy management. Applied Energy. 129, 70 – 88.
39. Y.F. Li*, N. Pedroni, E. Zio. 2013. A Memetic Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Method for Environmental Power Unit Commitment. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 28(3), 2660 – 2669.
40. E. Kuznetsova, Y.F. Li, C.R. Mora, E. Zio, G. Ault, K. Bell. 2013. Reinforcement learning for microgrid energy management. Energy. 59, 133–146.
41. Y.F. Li*, G. Sansavini, E. Zio. 2013. Non-Dominated Sorting Binary Differential Evolution for the Multi-Objective Optimization of Cascading Failures Protection in Complex Networks. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 111, 195–205.

PHM and Machine Learning

42. H. Meng, Y.F. Li*. 2019. A review on prognostics and health management (PHM) methods of lithium-ion batteries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 116, 109405.
43. R. Ak, Y.F. Li., V. Vitelli, E Zio. 2018. Adequacy Assessment of a Wind-Integrated System Using Neural Network-based Interval Predictions of Wind Power Generation and Load. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 95, 213-226.
44. J. Huang, J. W. Keung, F. Sarro, Y. F. Li, Y.T. Yu, W.K. Chan, H. Sun. 2017. Cross-validation based K nearest neighbor imputation for software quality datasets: An empirical study. Journal of Systems and Software. 132, 226-252.
45. J. Liu, Y.F. Li., E. Zio, E. 2017. A SVM framework for fault detection of the braking system in a high speed train. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 87, 401-409.
46. J.L. Huang, Y.F. Li, M. Xie. 2015. An empirical analysis of data preprocessing for machine learning-based software cost estimation. Information and Software Technology. 67(c), 108-127.
47. R. Ak, Y.F. Li., V. Vitelli, E. Zio, E. L. Droguettc, C. M. C. Jacintod. 2013. NSGA-II-Trained Neural Network Approach to the Estimation of Prediction Intervals of Scale Deposition Rate in Oil & Gas Equipment. Expert Systems with Applications. 40(4), 1205-1212.
48. Y.F. Li*, S.H. Ng, M. Xie, T.N. Goh. 2010. A Systematic Comparison of Metamodeling Techniques for Simulation Optimization in Decision Support Systems. Applied Soft Computing. 10, 1257-1273.
49. Y.F. Li*, M. Xie, T.N. Goh. 2010. Adaptive ridge regression system for software cost estimating on multi-collinear datasets. Journal of Systems and Software. 83(11), 2332-2343.
50. Y.F. Li*, M. Xie, T.N. Goh. 2009. A Study of the Non-linear Adjustment for Analogy Based Software Cost Estimation. Empirical Software Engineering. 14(6), 603-643.
51. Y.F. Li*, M. Xie, T.N. Goh. 2009. A Study of Mutual Information Based Feature Selection for Case Based Reasoning in Software Cost Estimation. Expert Systems with Applications. 36(3), 5921-5931.
52. Y.F. Li*, M. Xie, T.N. Goh. 2009. A Study of Project Selection and Feature Weighting for Analogy Based Software Cost Estimation. Journal of Systems and Software. 82(2), 241-252.

Chinese Journal Papers

53. 李彦夫，门天立. 2019. 列车车轮多边形磨损及其噪音研究综述. 振动、测试与诊断. 39(6), 1113-1152.

1. H. Meng, Y.F. Li. 2020. State of Health Prognostics of Lithium-Ion Batteries, in Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering. ed. Lirong Cui, Ilia Frenkel, Anatoly Lisnianski. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.
2. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. 2018. Reliability Assessment of Systems with Dependent Degradation Processes Based on Piecewise-Deterministic Markov Process. In Recent Advances in Multi-state Systems Reliability, Page: 213-225. Springer, Cham.
3. Y.F. Li, E. Zio. 2018. RAMS Optimization Principles, in Handbook of Safety Principles. ed. Niklas Moller, Sven Ove Hansson, Jan-Erik Holmberg, Carl Rollenhagen. John Wiley & Sons, NJ, USA.
4. Y.F. Li, E. Zio, Y.H. Lin. 2012. Methods of Solutions of Inhomogeneous Continuous Time Markov Chains for Degradation Process Modeling, in Applied Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis. Probabilistic Models and Statistical Inference. Dedicated to the Centennial of the birth of Boris Gnedenko, renowned Russian mathematician and reliability theorist. ed. Alex Karagrigoriou, Anatoly Lisnianski, Andre Kleyner, Ilia Frenkel. Wiley.
5. C.J. Xiong, Y.F. Li, M. Xie, S.H. Ng, T.N. Goh. 2009. Service Reliability and Availability Analysis of Distributed Software Systems Considering Malware Attack, in Advances in Software Engineering, vol. 36 of Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Page: 313-320. ISSN: 1865-0929. (ISTP)
6. Y.F. Li, J. Liu. 2005 Predicting Subcellular Localization of Proteins Using Support Vector Machine with N-Terminal Amino Composition. in Advanced Data Mining and Applications, vol. 3584 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Page: 618-625. ISSN: 0302-9743. (ISTP)

1. Y. Xue, Y.F. Li*. Multi-objective integer programming approaches for solving optimal feature selection problem. 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE40), May 27-June 3, 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

[Summary] [Research Interests] [Research Projects] [Career Experience] [Educational Background] [Teaching] [Publications] [Awards and Recognitions] [Professional Services] [Invited Lectures and Seminars] [Students Supervision] [中文版]

Awards and Recognitions:

• 2016: Qualification aux fonctions de professeurs des universités, Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, France
• 2015: Habilitation à diriger des Recherches (HDR) on Informatique (Computer Engineering), Université de Lorraine, France
• 2014: Senior Member, IEEE
• 2014-2016: Who’s Who in the world 2014-2016, Marquis, USA
• 2014: Outstanding Reviewer, Applied Soft Computing Journal, Elsevier, The Netherlands
• 2011: Top 10 graduates 2001-2011, all Schools of Software Engineering, China
• 2010: Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Technology Management Council, Singapore Chapter

Professional Services:

• IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Associate Editor
• Journal of Polish Safety and Reliability Association, Member of Editorial Board
• Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (JCR Q1), Youth Member of Editorial Board

General Chair/Co-Chair

• Annual Conference of the Institute of Quality and Reliability of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2018-2019
• ICRSE 2017, The 2nd International Conference on Reliability Systems Engineering, Beijing, China, 2017

Track Leader, Session Chair/Moderator

• Track co-Leader: ‘Optimization of Reliability, Maintenance and Safety’, ESREL2020-PSAM15, Venice, Italy, June 21-26, 2020.
• Invited session Chair: ‘Predictive Maintenance’, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA, October 20-23, 2019.
• Special session co-Chair: ‘Predictive Maintenance’, 11th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR2019), 3-7 June, 2019, HK, China.
• Invited session Co-Chair: ‘Prognostic and Health Management’, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA, November 4-7, 2018.
• Special session Chair: ‘AI for PHM’, IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM2018), Seattle, WA, USA, June 11-13, 2018.
• Session Moderator: The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS 2018), Reno, NV, USA, Jan 22-25, 2018.
• Special session Co-Chair: ‘Networks/Clouds - Resilience, Maintenance and Security’ at the 10th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR2017).
• Special session Co-Chair: ‘Reliability and risk modeling, and optimization of energy systems’ at the 8th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR2013).
• Special session Co-Chair: ‘Reliability and Risk Modeling and Optimization of Energy Systems’ at 2012 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2012).

Technical Program Committee Member

• Congrès Lambda Mu 22, Le Havre, France, Oct 12-15, 2020
• International Conference on Reliability Maintainability and Safety (ICRMS 2018), Shanghai, China, Oct. 17-19, 2018
• Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 14), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Sep. 16-21, 2018
• IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2015 – present
• The Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) 2015 - present
• The 11th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference and the Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference 2012 (PSAM 11 & ESREL 2012), Helsinki, Finland, 2012
• Congrès Lambda Mu 20, Saint Malo, France, 2016
• The 21th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2015), Zhangjiajie, China, 2015
• The 20th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2014), Singapore, 2014
• The 24th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2013), Pasadena, CA, USA, 2013
• The First International Conference on Advances and Trends in Software Engineering (SOFTENG 2015), Barcelona, Spain, 2015
• The International Workshop on Reliability Technologies in The 10th International Conference on Digital Technologies (DT 2014), Zilina, Slovak Republic, 2014
• The 2013 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference (PHM 2013), Milano, Italy, 2013

• IEEE Reliability Society, AdCom member, 2020-2022
• IEEE Transportation Electrification Community, Steering Committee member, 2020-present
• IISE (Institute for Industrial and System Engineers), Member, 2014-present
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Senior Member, 2014-present
• INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), Member, 2012-present
• Executive committee member, ASICEF (Association des Scientifiques et des Ingénieurs Chinois en France), 2013-2017
• Vice president of the System Reliability Division of System Engineering Society of China, 2018-present
• Executive Committee Member of the Reliability Chapter of Chinese Operations Research Society, 2017-present
• Executive Committee Member of Industrial Engineering Chapter of Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics, 2018-present
• Executive Committee Member of Uncertainty Chapter of Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society, 2017-present

Invited Lectures and Seminars:

• Keynote lecture “RAMS² Optimization”, The 3rd International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life Sciences and Operations Management (SMRLO'2019), Beijing, China, May 28-31, 2019.
• Keynote lecture “RAMS² Optimization”, 2018 International Conference on Management and Operations Research (ICMOR), Beijing, China, July 7-9, 2018.
• Plenary Lecture “Reliability and Maintain Optimization in Various Industrial Systems”, 12th Summer Safety & Reliability Seminars SSARS 2018, Gdansk/Sopot, Poland, June 24 - June 30, 2018.
• Keynote lecture “A Review on High Speed Railway Maintenance Studies”, 2nd Workshop on Railway Operation for Safety and Reliability, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, November 17, 2017.
• Invited seminar on “Development of machine learning methods for system reliability assessment - in the new era”. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, November 15, 2017.
• Keynote lecture “On the Cyber Security of Nuclear Power Plants”, ASRAM2017, Asian Symposium on Risk Assessment and Management 2017, Yokohama, Japan, November 13-15, Japan.
• Invited seminar on “Reliability assessment and optimization of new energy systems”. Warwick Business School, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom, January 29, 2015.
• Invited seminar on “Non-Homogeneous Redundancy Allocation in Series-Parallel Multi-State Systems”. Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX), École Polytechnique, Paris, France, June 6, 2014.
• Invited talk on “Optimization of Energy Components and Systems with Respect to Reliability and Risk”. EDF R&D-Chatou, Paris, France, June 27, 2013.
• Invited seminar on “Reliability assessment and optimization of energy components and systems”, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, February 15, 2013.
• Invited presentations on “Sciences des systèmes et défi energétique” and “Risk modelling, simulation, optimization of complex energy systems: some examples of work in progress”. Commission « Energie » du Conseil Scientifique, Supelec, Paris, France, 30 May, 2012.
• Invited lectures on “Bayesian belief networks for reliability and risk analysis” and “Petri nets modelling”, Department of Energy, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy, May 14-18, 2012.
• Invited seminar on “Modeling, simulation & optimization of complex energy systems” Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 16, 2011.

[Summary] [Research Interests] [Research Projects] [Career Experience] [Educational Background] [Teaching] [Publications] [Awards and Recognitions] [Professional Services] [Invited Lectures and Seminars] [Students Supervision] [中文版]

Students Supervision:

• 2018-2020, Huixing MENG, Ph.D. &‌Eacute; cole Polytechnique, France
• 2019-present, Shan JIANG, Ph.D. (Excellent Graduate) BUAA, China
• 2019-present, Taotao Zhou, Ph.D. Maryland University, USA

• Ronay AK (2011-2014), thesis title ‘Modeling, simulation and analysis of energy systems’. (Thesis defended in July 2014, was a Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)
• Elizaveta KUZNETSOVA (2011-2014), thesis title ‘Agent-based modeling of micro-grid systems’. (Thesis defended in March 2014, was a Post Doctoral Fellow at National University of Singapore
• Yan-Hui LIN (2012-2015), thesis title ‘An Holistic Framework of Degradation Modeling for Reliability Analysis and Maintenance Optimization of Nuclear Safety Systems’, now Associate Professor at BUAA University, China
• Rodrigo MENA (2012-2015), thesis title ‘Advanced simulation modeling and optimization for distributed generation systems’. was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Politecnico di Milano
• Muxia SUN (2013-2019), thesis title ‘The reliability assessment and optimization of arbitrary-state monotone systems with epistemic uncertainty’. now Postdoc research follow at Tsinghua University
• Ruochong LIU (2017-), thesis title TBD.
• Chuanzhou JIA (2017-), thesis title TBD.
• Hanxiao ZHANG (2017-), thesis title TBD.
• Tianli MEN (2018-), thesis title TBD.
• Chengwu SHAO (2018-), thesis title TBD.
• Hui WU (2018-), thesis title TBD.
• Chen ZHANG (2019-), thesis title TBD.
• Min QIAN (2019-), thesis title TBD.

• Shang XIONG (2018-2021), thesis title TBD
• Meng-Yu DU (2017-2020), thesis title TBD.
• Denise TELLBACH (2016-2019) , mini thesis title 'Cyber-Attacks on Smart Meters in Household Microgrid: Modeling Simulation and Analysis', now PhD Candidate at MIT
• Shou-Zhou LIU (2016-2019), thesis title ‘Modelling of Cyber-Attacks and Defenses in Local Metering System’. Tsinghua University.
• Mithlesh KUMAR (2011), master thesis entitled ‘Hybrid Petri net and Bayesian Network approach in simulating nuclear component degradation process considering external uncertainties’. Ecole Centrale Paris.
• Sébastien VALLA (2012-2013), one year master research project ‘Methods and Models for Evaluating the Reliability of Wind Turbine Components’. Ecole Centrale Paris.
• Roberto ROCCHETTA (2013-2014), master thesis “Simulation-Based Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Distributed Generation Systems Considering Extreme Weather Conditions”. University of Bologna, Italy.
• Nadia BOUDRIKA (2013-2014), one year master research project ‘Study and development of methods for modeling the degradation of critical components in energy production plants’. Ecole Centrale Paris.
• Qi HE (2014-2015), one year master research project ‘Review of methods of operation research for application in reliability and risk analysis of energy systems’. Ecole Centrale Paris
• Islam ABUDIN (2015), master thesis entitled ‘Study the electricity market agents’ behaviors with network failures and distributed renewable generation’, ERASMUS MUNDUS Joint Master in Economics & Management of Network Industries – (EMIN).