Biography

 

 

Education

 

 Ph.D.: Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, 2007

 M.Sc.: Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China, 2003

 B.Sc.:  Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China, 2000

 

Experience

 

 Associate Professor (08/2013-present), Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. 

 Associate Professor (06/2012-07/2013), Assistant Professor (08/2007-05/2012), Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. 

 

Professional Activities

 

 Editorial Board member. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering (IJRQSE), 2020-present.

 Editorial Board member. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2021-present.

 Guest Editor, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Special Issue “APARM 2020: Reliability and Maintenance”, 2020-2022.

 Associate Editor, Journal of Prognostics and Health Management (JPHM), 2018-present.

 Co-Editor. Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modelling (APARM 2020), Vancouver, Canada, August 20-23, 2020

 Guest Editor, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Special Issue “APARM 2020: Reliability and Maintenance”, 2020.

 Awards Committee Chair. the 9th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modelling (APARM 2020), Vancouver, Canada, August 20-23, 2020

 

Reviewer for the following journals:

 IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, IIE Transactions, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Journal of Vibration and Control, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Naval Research Logistics, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Risk and Reliability, International Journal of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability, Computer Communications, Information Fusion, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Neural Computing & Applications

 

Conference Services

 Program Committee Member, 2012 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE), Chengdu, China, June 14-18, 2012. 

 Session Chair, “Systems Reliability and Maintenance”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, USA, November 2011.

 Session Co-Chair, “Reliability and Optimization in Smart Grid Operations”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, USA, November 2011.

 Program Committee Member, International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Maintenance, and Safety (ICQRMS ), Xi’an, China, June 2011. 

 Session Chair, “Systems Reliability and Maintenance”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, USA, November 7-10, 2010.

 Session Chair, “Condition Based Maintenance and Applications”, IIE Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Cancun, Mexico, June 5-9, 2010.

 Session Chair, “Reliability and Optimization”, MITACS/CORS 2010 Annual Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 25-28, 2010. 
 

 

Honors & Awards

 

 Fellow, International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), 2016. 

 Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award (Technology, Industry, and the Environment). Concordia University, 2011.

 

 

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