Plenary Speakers

Liudong Xing
University of Massachusetts, USA

Liudong Xing is currently a Professor and College of Engineering Director of Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 2002. Her research focuses on reliability modeling and analysis of complex systems and networks. She has authored or co-authored over 320 journal articles and three monographs entitled “Reliability and Resilience in the Internet of Things”, “Binary Decision Diagrams and Extensions for System Reliability Analysis”, and “Dynamic System Reliability: Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic and Dependent Behaviors”. Prof. Xing has received multiple teaching and scholarly awards from her university and IEEE. She was also a co-recipient of eight best (student) paper awards at international conferences and journals. She currently serves as associate editor or editorial board member for Reliability Engineering & System Safety, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Access (Reliability Society section), and other journals. She is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the class of 2024-2025 and a fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management.

Yu Liu
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Yu Liu is the Dean and Full Professor of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his PhD degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He was a Visiting Pre-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston, U.S.A. from 2008 to 2010, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada from 2012 to 2013. He has published 3 Springer books and over 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IISE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, Reliability Engineering and System Safety. He has been recognized as one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier since 2016 and the World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2020. He was a recipient of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program Distinguished Professors, National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, IISE QCRE Teaching Award, the Youth Science and Technology Award of Operations Research Society of China, the Youth Science and Technology Award of Sichuan Province, and the HIWIN Doctoral Dissertation Award sponsored by Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers and HIWIN Technologies Corporation. He serves as an Associate Editor of IISE Transactions and IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Area Editor of Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering, and one of the editorial board members of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Engineering Optimization, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering. He also serves as the Vice President of the Reliability Committee of Operations Research Society of China and the Chair of IEEE Reliability Society Chengdu Section Chapter. He is an ISEAM Fellow.

Wei-Chang Yeh
Chair Professor, Integration & Collaboration Laboratory
National Tsing Hua University

Yeh is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research primarily focuses on algorithms, including exact solution methods and soft computing.
He has published more than 350 research papers in highly ranked journals and conferences and has received multiple prestigious awards, including the Outstanding Research Award (twice), the Distinguished Scholars Research Project (once), and the Overseas Research Fellowship (twice) from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in Taiwan.
He has been invited to serve as an Associate Editor for three journals: IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Access, and Reliability Engineering & System Safety. He proposed a novel soft computing algorithm called Simplified Swarm Optimization (SSO) and developed a new implicit enumeration algorithm known as the Binary-Addition-Tree (BAT) algorithm. Both SSO and BAT have demonstrated simplicity, effectiveness, efficiency, and flexibility in solving NP-hard problems.
He has been granted more than 55 patents, listed among the top 2% of scientists globally (2020-2023) by Stanford University, and recognized with several honors, including International Fellow, MOST Fellow (2021), CIIE Fellow (Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2022), the Guoguang Invention Medal, as well as the titles of Outstanding Inventor of Taiwan and Doctor of Erudition by the Chinese Innovation and Invention Society.

Session Keynote Lecturers

Sylwia Werbińska-Wojciechowska Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland	Alba Sofi University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy	Yi-Ping Fang University of Paris Saclay, France	Adam Abdin University of Paris Saclay, France
Mahmood Shafiee University of Surrey, UK	Márcio das Chagas Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil	Podofillini Luca Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland	Nicola Pedroni Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Yanhui Lin Beihang University, China	Umberto Alibrandi Aarhus University, Denmark	Wei Wang City University of Hong Kong, China	Emmanuel Fragniere University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Bahri Uzunoglu Uppsala University, Sweden	Elena Zaitseva University of Zilina, Slovakia	Mohammad Ali Farsi Aerospace Research Institute	Fabio Postiglione University of Salerno, Italy
Mohammad Ali Saniee Monfared Alzahra University, Iran	Huixing Meng Beijing Institute of Technology, China	Hon Keung Tony Ng Bentley University, USA	Jeroen Boydens KU Leuven, department Computer Science, Belgium
Yuantao Yao Institute of Nuclear Energy	Huai Su Beijing University of Petroleum, China	Kaixin Shen Tsinghua University, China	Hamid Reza Shaker University of Southern Denmark, Denmark