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September 30, 2021

Zhicheng Zhu Successfully Defended His Dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. Zhicheng Zhu who successfully defended his PhD on September 30. The title of his dissertation was “Data-driven maintenance and remanufacturing optimization of complex systems”. Dr. Zhu will continue his research as a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Florida. We wish you all the best, Dr....

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September 1, 2021

Welcome Tong Li Join Dr. Xiang’s Group!

Welcome Tong Li Join Dr. Xiang’s Group.

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July 28, 2021

2021 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2021)

Ying Liao received the NSF travel award to attend the 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2021), which will be held virtually in August. Congratulations! She will be presenting the following presentation:

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July 28, 2021

Project Funded by CyManII

The project titled “Energy Baselining, Optimization and Security Augmentation of an Oil Refinery” was funded by DOE through the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII). I am the co-PI on this project and look forward to working with the project’s industrial partner and helping them identify energy-saving opportunities.

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May 28, 2021

Receiving the QCRE Best Track Paper Award

Our paper titled “Joint Optimization of Resource Allocation and Imperfect Maintenance Planning for a Multi-facility Infrastructure System”  received the QCRE Best Track Paper award at the 2021 IISE Annual Conference. Congratulations!

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May 26, 2021

2021 IISE Annual Conference

The IISE (IISE Annual Conference and Exposition) was held virtually again. We made the following presentations.

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May 1, 2021

Receiving the Whitacre Engineering Research Award

I am honored to receive the Whitacre Engineering Research Award!

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March 24, 2021

2021 RAMS

The RAMS 2021 was delayed from January 2021 to May 2021 but in an in-person format. We made the following three presentations.

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March 10, 2021

Presenting a Seminar at Wayne State University

I presented an invited online seminar in the Industrial and Systems Eng. Dept. at Wayne State University. The title of the seminar was ‘Data-Driven Markov Decision Processes with Parameter Uncertainty: Application to Remanufacturing Planning’.

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December 16, 2020

Receiving the Doug Ogden Best Paper Award from SRE

Laticia (Ying) Liao, Dr. Yisha Xiang, and Dr. Elias Keedy received the Doug Ogden Best Paper Award from the Society of Reliability Engineers for the paper “Age-based Maintenance Scheduling for Flowmeters With Multiple Failure Modes and Covariates ”. This prestigious award is named in the memory of SRE Fellow...

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