Principal Investigator

Youssef Marzouk
Youssef Marzouk

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

Ruiguan Lin
Ruiguan Lin

Ruiguan Lin

Ruiguan Lin received his Ph.D. degree in Transportation Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2024. He is currently an Assistant Research Fellow with the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University. His current research interests include intelligent operation and maintenance of aero-engines, reliability analysis and modeling, and knowledge modeling.

E-mail: linruiguan@tsinghua.edu.cn

Cong Peng
Cong Peng

Cong Peng

Cong Peng received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2019 and 2025, respectively. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. His current research interests include fault diagnosis and intelligent maintenance of railway train control systems.

E-mail: pengc@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Yuanming Song
Yuanming Song

Yuanming Song

Yuanming Song is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Reliability & Risk Management Laboratory at Tsinghua University. She received her M.Sc. degree in Operational Research and Statistics and her Ph.D. degree in Operational Research from the University of Southampton. Her current research interests include reliability modeling and maintenance optimization, as well as decision-making and optimization under risk, with applications in computing systems operations management, international shipping, and other sectors.

E-mail: songyuanming@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Zhen-Ning Li
Zhen-Ning Li

Zhen-Ning Li

I received his B.Eng. degree in Automation in 2016, M.Sc. degree in Control Science and Engineering in 2020, and Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Science and Technology in 2025, all from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China. Since December 2025, I have been with Tsinghua University as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Industrial Engineering. My current research interests include prognostics and health management (PHM) and large language model-based multi-agent systems.

E-mail: lizhenning@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Chunfai Lui
Chunfai Lui

Chunfai Lui

Dr. Lui received the B.Eng. degree and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 2020 and 2024, respectively. He was the valedictorian of the College of Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He was also an awardee of the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship awarded by the Hong Kong government. He is currently a Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Postdoc at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. His current research interests include data-driven process monitoring, anomaly detection, and intelligent diagnostics and prognostics.

E-mail: cflui@tsinghua.edu.cn

Graduate Students, PhD

Luyao Wang
Luyao Wang

Luyao Wang

My current research focuses on the reliability assessment of AI-based systems, including autonomous driving systems. Before joining RRML, I majored in automation and received my bachelor's degree in engineering from Zhejiang University. Outside of work, I also enjoy music and painting.

E-mail: wangluya22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

Chen Jiang
Chen Jiang

Chen Jiang

My current research focuses on multi-state system reliability analysis, including network reliability and importance measures. I majored in financial engineering during my undergraduate studies and received a bachelor's degree in management from the Business School of Hunan University in 2020. In addition to my current research, I am also interested in statistics and finance.

E-mail: jiang-c20@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

Ziying Li
Ziying Li

Ziying Li

My research interests include functional data analysis and prognostics and health management (PHM). Before joining RRML, I received my B.S. degree from the School of Reliability and Systems Engineering at Beihang University, Beijing, China.

E-mail: liziying24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

Shilong Ye
Shilong Ye

Shilong Ye

My current research focuses on large language model-enabled digitalization and intelligent operation and maintenance decision-making for complex industrial systems. I am particularly interested in industrial knowledge augmentation and multi-agent collaborative reasoning, aiming to develop closed-loop intelligent workflows that integrate anomaly identification, diagnostic reasoning, action recommendation, and post-action review with knowledge accumulation. I received my Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis, and my Master's degree from New York University.

E-mail: shilongye.thu@gmail.com

Bowen Guan
Bowen Guan

Bowen Guan

My research focuses on leveraging mathematical programming and reinforcement learning to solve maintenance optimization problems. I received my bachelor's degree from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University.

E-mail: guanbw23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

Alumni

Postdoctoral Alumni

  • Huixing Meng (2018–2020). Ph.D., École Polytechnique, France. Current position: Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
  • Shan Jiang (2019–2021). Ph.D., Beihang University; Outstanding Graduate. Current position: Associate Professor, Minzu University of China, China.
  • Te Han (2020–2022). Ph.D., Tsinghua University; Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar. Current position: Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
  • Ying Zhang (2021–2023). Ph.D., University of Technology Sydney. Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China.
  • Wei Zhao (2022–2024). Ph.D., Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Current position: Associate Professor, Shanghai Polytechnic University, China.
  • Yunfei Shao (2023–2025). Ph.D., Wichita State University. Current position: Specially Appointed Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China.
  • Zisheng Wang (2023–2025). Ph.D., Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar. Current position: Assistant Professor, Shandong University, China.
  • Dun Li (2023–2025). Ph.D., École Polytechnique and Shanghai Maritime University. Current position: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

PhD Alumni

  • Ronay Ak (2011–2014, co-supervised)
    Thesis: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Energy Systems
    After graduation: Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
  • Elizaveta Kuznetsova (2011–2014, co-supervised)
    Thesis: Agent-based Modeling of Microgrid Systems
    After graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher at the National University of Singapore.
  • Yanhui Lin (2012–2015, co-supervised)
    Thesis: A Holistic Framework for Degradation Modeling and Maintenance Optimization of Safety Critical Systems
    Current position: Associate Professor under the Zhuoyue Program, Beihang University.
  • Rodrigo Mena (2012–2015, co-supervised)
    Thesis: Advanced Simulation Modeling and Optimization of Distributed Generation Systems
    After graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
  • Muxia Sun (2013–2019)
    Thesis: Reliability Assessment and Optimization of Arbitrary State Monotone Systems
    After graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher at Tsinghua University.
  • Hanxiao Zhang (2017–2022)
    Thesis: Research on Redundancy Allocation Problems for Multi-state Systems: Modeling and Algorithmic Approach
    Current position: Assistant Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University; previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at City University of Hong Kong.
  • Chuanzhou Jia (2017–2022)
    Thesis: Research on Maintenance and Rescue of Networked Critical Infrastructure
    Current position: Researcher, CITIC Group.
  • Feipeng Wang (2017–2023)
    Thesis: Reliability Studies on Autonomous Vehicle Systems
    Current position: Civil servant in a Beijing municipal government department.
  • Hui Wu (2018–2022)
    Thesis: Data-driven Anomaly Detection and Remaining Useful Life Prediction Methods for Complex Industrial Systems
    Current position: Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai.
  • Tianli Men (2018–2023)
    Thesis: Prediction and Health Management (PHM) of High-speed Train Wheels
    Current position: Shanghai Investment Corporation.
  • Chengwu Shao (2018–2023)
    Thesis: Optimization of Defense Resource Allocation in Cyber-Physical Systems
    Current position: Civil servant in the Zhejiang Provincial Government.
  • Min Qian (2019–2024)
    Thesis: Research on Class Imbalance and Missing Label Problems in Intelligent Fault Detection
    Current position: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
  • Chen Zhang (2019–2024)
    Thesis: Optimization of Maintenance Strategies for Complex Systems
    Current position: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
  • Huan Wang (2021–2024)
    Thesis: Trustworthy Fault Diagnosis Algorithms for Complex Industrial Systems Based on Deep Learning
    Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at City University of Hong Kong and awardee of the RGC Junior Research Fellow Scheme.

Research Master's Alumni

  • Shang Xiong
  • Yanan Wang (2020–2023)
  • Wenqiang Zheng (2020–2023)
  • Mengyu Du (2017–2020), Outstanding Graduate of Tsinghua University and recipient of the Outstanding Master's Thesis Award.
  • Shouzhou Liu (2016–2019)
  • Denise Tellbach (2016–2019), Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Auto-ID Labs.
  • Mithlesh Kumar
  • Sébastien Valla
  • Roberto Rocchetta
  • Islam Abudin
  • Peiliang Liu
  • Pierre-Victor Morales
  • Kanittha Sethpatayakul
  • Diana Filipa Araújo