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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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November 6, 2020

2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting

The INFORMS 2020 was fully online (was to be held in D.C.). I served as a panelist at INFORMS New Faculty Colloquium. Our research group made the following three presentations.

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October 28, 2020

Paper Accepted for Publication in the IISE Transactions

The paper ” Optimal Burn-in Policies for Multiple Dependent Degradation Processes” by Yue Shi, Yisha Xiang, Ying Liao, Zhicheng Zhu and Yili Hong has been accepted for publication in IISE transactions.

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September 1, 2020

Welcome Saunak Panda and Ning Dong joining Dr. Xiang’s group!

Dr. Xiang’s group welcomes two new members, Saunak Panda and Ning Dong.

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August 28, 2020

IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

The IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering was held virtually (was to be held in Hong Kong). We made the following presentation: Automatic classification of heartbeats using ECG signals via higher order hidden Markov model, by Ying Liao, and Yisha Xiang.

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August 28, 2020

Paper Accepted for Publication in the Naval Research Logistics

The paper ” Health Assessment and Prognostics Based on Higher Order Hidden Semi-Markov Models” by Ying Liao, Yisha Xiang, and Min Wang has been accepted for publication in Naval Research Logistics.

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June 28, 2020

Paper Accepted for Publication in the INFORMS Journal of Computing

The paper ” Multi-component Maintenance Optimization: A Stochastic Programming Approach” by Zhicheng Zhu, Yisha Xiang, and Bo Zeng has been accepted for publication in INFORMS Journal of Computing.

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May 28, 2020

Two Papers Accepted for Publications in May

We have two papers accepted for Publications this month, one by the European Journal of Operational Research, and one by Reliability Engineering & System Safety. Here are the papers:

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April 2, 2020

Honored to Receive the NSF CAREER Award

I’m honored to receive the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development ( CAREER ) grant.  Here’s the news story: Industrial Engineering Professor Honored With CAREER Award.

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