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May 22, 2022

2022 IISE TransactionsBest Application Paper

Very happy and honored that the paper my former PhD student Zhicheng Zhu and I wrote on condition-based maintenance for multi-component systems was selected as the best paper by IISE Transactions.  Here’s the link to IISE Transactions Spotlight on 2022 Best Papers.   Multi-component maintenance planning joins a combinatorial optimization problem...

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May 21, 2022

2022 IISE Annual Conference

The IISE (IISE Annual Conference and Exposition) was held in Seattle, WA. I served as the co-track chair for the 2022 IISE Annual Conference QCRE track and chaired the QCRE Best Track Paper Competition. We made the following presentations.

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May 9, 2022

Dr. Archis Ghate Visited Dr. Xiang’s Research Group

Dr. Archis Ghate of the University of Washington visited my research group and gave a seminar titled “Robust Markov decision processes with data-driven, distance-based ambiguity sets”. We truly enjoyed Dr. Ghate’s visit and hope to have the pleasure to host him again in the future.

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May 1, 2022

Receiving the 2017 IISE Best Track Paper

The paper titled “A Constraint Programming Model for Ice Cream Processing” by Ezra Wari, Weihang Zhu & Yisha Xiang receives the 2017 IISE Best Track Paper. Congratulations! 

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April 27, 2022

Yue Shi Successfully Defended Her Dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. Yue Shi who successfully defended her PhD on April 27th. The title of her dissertation was “Data-Driven Sequential Decision Making with Learning under Ambiguity”. Dr. Shi has received multiple offers from top universities in China and will be joining the Business School at Wuhan University (a Top...

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January 26, 2022

2022 RAMS

The RAMS 2022 was held in Tucson, AZ. We made the following presentation: Two-stage Stochastic Programming for Maintenance Optimization of Multi-component Systems, by Zhicheng, Zhu, Yisha Xiang, and Ying Liao.

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November 30, 2021

Appointed as Associated Editor for IISE Transactions

I was appointed as Associated Editor for IISE Transactions. Look forward to serving the flagship journal of the IISE.

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November 27, 2021

The Third International Conference on System Reliability and Safety Engineering (SRSE 2021, virtual conference)

I served as a technical committee member at the 3rd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety Engineering (SRSE 2021, virtual conference). I also gave a virtual talk as an invited speaker.

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November 16, 2021

Presenting a Seminar at UMass-Dartmouth

I presented an invited on-line seminar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Mass at Dartmouth. Hope to visit the campus in-person in the future.

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October 28, 2021

Article Featured in the ISE Magazine

Our article titled “Optimal Burn-in Policies for Multiple Dependent Degradation Processes” (coauthored by Yue Shi, Ying Liao, Zhicheng Zhu, Yili Hong) was featured in the October 2021 issue of the ISE Magazine. Pages from ISE October21_Research

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