Principal Investigator


Yan-Fu Li
Dr. Yan-Fu Li is currently the Deputy-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 CentraleSupélec, 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 50 peer-reviewed international journal papers with H-index 26. 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, China Railway, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, EDF, ALSTOM, etc. The total amount of funding exceeds 10 million CNY.
E-mail: liyanfu@tsinghua.edu.cn
Personal Website Link: http://www2.ie.tsinghua.edu.cn/liyanfu/indexe.htm
Postdoctoral Associates


Mu-Xia Sun
He received in 2010 his B.Sc. degree from South China University of Technology (SCUT), M.Sc. in 2012 & 2013 from Universite de Nantes and SCUT, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in 2019 from Universite Paris-Saclay. Since 2020 he has been with Tsinghua University as Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Industrial Engineering. His current research interests include reliability assessment and optimization of industrial & communication systems, robust optimization, and approximation algorithm design.
E-mail: muxiasun@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn


Te Han
I received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2015 and 2020, respectively. I am currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. His current research interests include machinery condition monitoring, intelligent fault diagnosis and prognostics, deep learning, and transfer learning.
Email: hant@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn


Ying Zhang
I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 2014 and 2017, respectively. From 2017 to 2021, I was being sponsored by the China Scholarship Council and completed my Ph.D. degree from the School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Technology Sydney. Currently, I am working as an assistant researcher in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. My main research interests include intelligent fault diagnosis, prognostics and health management, machine learning and deep learning.
E-mail: zhangying98742@tsinghua.edu.cn


Wei Zhao
I received my B.S. and Ph.D degrees from the School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2017 and 2022, respectively. Currently, I am working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. My main research interests include statistical process control, survival analysis, design of experiments and reliability analysis.
Email: zhaoweii@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Graduate Students, PhD


Fei-Peng Wang
My research interests include reliability assessment of autonomous vehicles and the implementation of Bayesian network in reliability analysis. I received my bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Tsinghua University. Outside of my work, I am interested in social work, board game and dancing.
Email: wfp17@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


Tian-Li Men
My research interests focus on prognostics and health management (PHM) and predictive maintenance. I received my bachelor’s degree in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University. Outside my work, I am interested in swimming and cycling sports.
Email: mtl14@tsinghua.org.cn


Hui Wu
I am a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. I received my Bachelor’s degrees in statistics from Shandong University in 2018. My current research is related to modeling and monitoring for complex data.
Education Experience: PhD in Management Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 2018-Present BS in Statistics, Shandong University, China, 2014-2018
Honor: • IISE Data Analysis and Information System Best Student Paper Award, 2021 • Tsinghua University National Scholarship, 2020 • Mitsubishi Scholarship, 2019 • Tsinghua University Doctoral Forum Best Paper Award, 2019 • CSOOPEM IE Best Student Paper Award, 2019
Research: Statistical learning and data mining Process Modeling, Monitoring, and Prognostics.
Email: wuh18@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


Cheng-Wu Shao
Cheng-Wu Shao is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. His research interests include smart-grid reliability and cyber-security based on game theory analysis.
Email: scw18@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


Min Qian
My current research interests include imbalanced problems and label missing problems in the field of fault diagnosis, as well as the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) based on machine learning. I received the B.E. degree in Industrial Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2019. I am currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Management Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University.
E-mail: qm19@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


Chen Zhang
My current research is on methodologies for reliability optimization and maintenance scheduling of complex network. In addition, I am interested in robust optimization and deep reinforcement learning. I received my bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University.
Email: chen-zha19@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


Chen Jiang
My current research is on the analysis of multi-state system reliability including network reliability and importance measure. I majored in financial engineering during my undergraduate period and received the Bachelor Degree in Management from Business School of Hunan University in 2020. Beside my current work, I am also interested in statistics and finance.
E-mail: jiang-c20@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


Huan Wang
My research interests include prognostics and health management (PHM) for mechanical equipment, semiconductor manufacturing monitoring, medical information analysis, deep learning, and machine learning. Before joining RRML, I received a B.S. degree and M.S. degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. Outside of work, I enjoy sleeping, music, food, and hiking.
Email: huan-wan21@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


Luyao Wang
My current research is on the reliability assessment of AI-based systems including autonomous driving systems. Before joining RRML, I majored in automation during my undergraduate period and received the Bachelor Degree in engineering at Zhejiang University. Outside of work, l also enjoy music and paiting.
Email: wangluya22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


Ruo-Chong Liu
Graduate Students, SM


Ya-Nan Wang
I am currently a master student at the Department of Industrial Engineering (IE), Tsinghua University. I received my bachelor’s degree in IE from Tsinghua University, China, in 2020. I have also accomplished the studies of Engineer at CentraleSupélec, France, in 2020, with a bachelor’s degree in Fundamental and Applied Mathematics at Université ParisSaclay. My research interests include predictive maintenance, risk management and data analysis.
E-mail: yn-wang20@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


Wen-Qiang Zheng
My research area is broadly in the area of deep learning adversarial attack and maintenance scheduling. I am now interested in the application of deep learning adversarial attack. The adversarial attack to deep learning can evaluate the reliability of deep learning system. I received my bachelor's degree from Tongji University. Outside of work, I am good at playing Chinese chess, and hiking is also my hobby.
Email: zhengwq20@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

Alumni
Postdoctoral Associates
- Huixing Meng (Ph.D. É cole Polytechnique, France)
- Shan Jiang (Ph.D. (Excellent Graduate) BUAA, China)
PhD Students
- Hanxiao Zhang (2017-2022)
- Thesis: Redundancy Allocation Problem for Multi-state Systems: Models and Algorithms
- Affiliation: City University of Hong Kong
- Chuanzhou Jia (2017-2022)
- Thesis: Research on the Maintenance and Restoration of Networked Critical Infrastructures
- Affiliation: CITIC Group
SM Students
- Shou-Zhou Liu (2016-2019)
- Quan-Yi Jin (2016-2019)
- Pierre-Victor Morales (2016-2018)
- Low Pei Liang (2016-2018)
- Denise Tellbach (2016-2019)
- Kanittha Setthapitayakul (2016-2018)
- Meng-Yu Du (2017-2020)
- Shang Xiong (2018-2021)
- Jannik Lammersmann (2018-2020)
- Diana Filipa Araújo (2018-2020)
- Eike Wefelnberg (2020-2021)
- Nilles Maximilian (2020-2021)
- Jonas Quarder (2020-2021)
- Buerklin Bastian (2020-2021)