April 18, 2025
Paper Accepted for Publication in the IISE Transactions
The paper entitled “Distributionally Robust Partially Observable Markov Decision Process with Distance-Based Ambiguity Sets” by Tong Li and Yisha Xiang has been accepted for publication in the IISE Transactions. Congratulations to Tong on her first paper being accepted at the IISE flagship journal!
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Paper Accepted for Publication at the Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety
The paper entitled “Modeling Multivariate Degradation Data with Dynamic Covariates Under a Bayesian Framework” by Zhengzhi Lin, Xiao Liu, Yisha Xiang, and Yili Hong has been accepted for publication in Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety. Congratulations!
Learn MoreFebruary 11, 2025
Service as AE for ASME JCISE
My great pleasure to serve as an AE for the ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE). The ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE) welcomes articles related to Algorithms, Computational Methods, Information Science, and/or System Architectures that aim to improve some aspect of...
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Service as AE for INFORMS Journal on Data Science
My great honor to serve as an AE for INFORMS Journal on Data Science, a leading platform for advancing research in Data Science. Looking forward to contributing to this community!
Learn MoreOctober 18, 2024
2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting
The 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting was held in Seattle, WA. My research group has made the following presentations. Sample-averaged variance-constrained Risk-sensitive Deep RL by Saunak Panda, and Yisha Xiang Estimation and Interpretation of the Effects of Process Variables in High-Temperature Superconductor tape manufacturing by Hunter Huang, Saunak Panda, and...
Learn MoreJuly 30, 2024
QR2MSE Best Paper Award
Very happy and honored that the paper my former PhD student Ying Liao and I wrote was selected as the best paper of the 2023 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE). The title of the paper is “Bayesian Mixed-Effect Highter-Order Hidden Markov Models with...
Learn MoreJuly 7, 2024
Paper Accepted for Publication in the Reliability Engineering & System Safety
The paper entitled “Reinforcement Learning in Reliability and Maintenance Optimization: A Tutorial” by Qin Zhang, Yu Liu, Yisha Xiang, and Tangfan Xiahou has been accepted for publication in the Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety. Congratulations!
Learn MoreJuly 3, 2024
2024 ICQSR Conference
The second INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (ICQSR) is held in Raleigh, North Carolina on July 1-4, 2024. I c0-chaired a session with Prof. Jian Zhou from Nanjing Institute of Science and Technology, China. The following presentation was given there. Statistical Inference of Sample-Averaged Q-Learning by Saunak...
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Paper Accepted for Publication in the European Journal of Operational Research
The paper entitled “Dynamic Resource Matching in Manufacturing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning” by Saunak Panda, Yisha Xiang, and Ruiqi Liu has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational Research. This is Saunak’s first journal paper. Congratulations!
Learn MoreJanuary 18, 2024
Excited to Receive a New NSF Grant
Very excited that my proposal titled “Integrated Framework for Cooperative 3D Printing: Uncertainty Quantification, Decision Models, and Algorithms ” is funded by NSF. This project will focus on advancing data analytics and decision-making methods for the efficiency of the novel cooperative 3D printing (C3DP) technology. We hope our proposed...
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