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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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October 26, 2021

2021 Tsinghua University Annual meeting of the Institute for Quality and Reliability

I presented as an invited speaker at the 10th International Symposium on Quality Science and Reliability Technology & 2021 Tsinghua University Annual meeting of the Institute for Quality and Reliability. The title of the virtual talk is “Data-Driven Markov Decision Processes with Parameter Uncertainty: Application to Remanufacturing Planning”.

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October 22, 2021

2021 INFORMS Annual Conference

The INFORMS 2021 was held in Anaheim, California. I served as a panelist for 2021 INFORMS QSR Student Introduction and Interaction Session. We made the following presentations.

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