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Xiaoyan Zhu is Chair Professor in School of Economics and Management at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing since 2014. She received a B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2000, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. From 2005 to 2007, she worked as a research associate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Since 2008, she worked as Assistant Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. Her research interests are in system reliability optimization, operations research, and supply chain and inventory management. She coauthored book ''Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk, and Optimization: Principles and Applications'' and published about 30 journal papers in the top journals. She won 2012 IIE Best Paper Prize in Quality Control & Reliability Engineering. She is a member of Thousand Youth Talents Program of China.
Qingpei Hu received the B.S and M.S. degrees from the Department of Automatic Control, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, in 1999 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2007. He is now an Associate Professor in the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. His current research interests include reliability statistics, systems reliability, and software reliability.
King Pui Louis Liu is currently an instructor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from the same department in 2002. He received his MPhil degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1995, and his Bachelor degree from Portsmouth University, UK in 1991. From 2014 onwards, he has been one of the program co-chairs of the International Research Conference on Systems Engineering and Engineering Science. Also, he has been a committee member of the International Conference on the Interface between Statistics and Engineering starting from 2014. His research interests are very broad, and they are Service Robotics, Non-destructive Testing, Magnetorheological fluid (MR fluid) application, Giant Magnetostrictive Material (GMM) Application, Simulation Study on System Operation, and Health Care Operation. He has conducted some applied research on remote monitoring and quality assurance of air purifier device installed for patient at home.
Kwai Sang Chin is currently the Associate Head of Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and the Associate Director of Centre for Systems Informatics Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He is also serving Chutian Chair Professor in the Wuhan University of Technology, PRC. His teaching specialization and research interests are quality and innovation management, and new product development strategies and process. Dr. Chin graduated from Industrial Engineering of University of Hong Kong. Before joining the City University in 1991, He had 10-year experience in the manufacturing industry, holding senior positions in industrial engineering, product development, and quality assurance and management. Dr. Chin is a Chartered Engineer in UK and Registered Professional Engineer in Hong Kong. He is an Academician of the International Academy of Quality, Fellow of American Society for Quality (ASQ), USA, Fellow of Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ), and senior members of several international engineering institutions. Dr. Chin was the Chairman of HKSQ in 1997-2000 and the ASQ Country Representative of Hong Kong 2000-2013, and the founding member of ANQ (Asian Network for Quality) since 2003. He has obtained nearly US$1.35 million research funding from various sources as Principal Investigator and has published over 180 international refereed journal papers. Due to his strong industrial background, Dr. Chin is maintaining a good link with the industries.
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Zhu, X., Hu, Q., Liu, K.P.L. et al. Editorial special issue of selected articles from IRC-SEMS 2016. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 26, 413–416 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-017-5344-6
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