[ "Dr Hong-Zhong Huang received the B.S. degree from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 1983, the M.S. degree from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 1988, and the PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1999, all in mechanical engineering. He is currently a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. He is also the Director of the Center for System Reliability and Safety, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has held visiting appointments at several universities in the USA, Canada, and Asia. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 journal papers and eight books in the fields of reliability engineering, optimization design, fuzzy sets theory, and product development. Prof. Huang is an ISEAM Fellow, a Technical Committee Member of ESRA, a Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering, International Journal of Reliability and Applications, and an Editorial Board Member of Reliability Engineering & System Safety and several international journals." ]

[ "Dr He Li received his PhD degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China and currently is a Marie-Curie Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. His research mainly focuses on complex systems' failure, risk, reliability, and maintainability. Dr He Li has published two monographs (with Springer) and more than 40 peer-reviewed Journal papers as the first/corresponding author in the fields of reliability engineering, offshore renewable energy, etc, including 10 highly cited/hot papers. Dr He Li is a Technical Committee Member of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). He is the Editor-in-Chief for the ENG Transactions Journal and has been the associate editor (such as Complex & Intelligent Systems), the guest editor, and the member of editorial board of 12 journals. He has also been special session chair, organization committee co-chair, and program committee member of more than 20 international conferences." ]

[ "Dr Yan Shi received the B.E. degree and PhD degree in School of Aeronautics from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. His research interests include structural/system/network reliability analysis, sensitivity analysis, design optimization, and machine learning techniques. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers in the corresponding research interests. He is the youth editor board member of the Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering, and Urban Resilience and Earthquake Engineering. He has also been the guest editor of several journals and chair of symposia in several international conferences." ]

[ "Mr Tudi Huang received the M.S. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China, in 2021. He is pursuing the PhD degree in mechanical engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research interests include reliability analysis, maintenance optimization, and epistemic uncertainty." ]

[ "Dr Zaili Yang is Professor of Maritime Transport and Co-Director of Liverpool, Logistics, Offshore and Marine Research Institute at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK. Prof. Yang's research interests are analysis and modeling of safety, resilience and sustainability of transport networks, particularly maritime systems. Prof. Yang has received more than £13m external Grants (£8m as the PI) from the EU and UK EPSRC, including a prestigious ERC consolidator Grant. His research findings have been published in over 400 refereed papers in risk and transport areas, including 250 journal papers (WoS citation: 9000, H-index:54; Google citation:14000, H-index:65). Prof. Yang is the AE/EMB of 14 journals (e.g. Transport Research Part E). He has received 14 paper awards (e.g. IMechE Journal Part M) and 5 research awards (e.g. Northeast Asia Logistics Award 2018)." ]

[ "Dr Li-Ping He received the PhD degree from School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China in 2010 and currently is a full professor at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China. She is also a senior member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and a candidate for Academic and Technical Leader in Sichuan Province, China. She was selected as the candidate of Chengdu Jingrong High-tech Talent Program in 2017. Her research mainly focuses on reliability design, safety analysis, and health state assessment of intelligent equipment." ]

[ "Dr Yu Liu received the PhD degree in mechatronics engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China, in 2010. He is currently a Full Professor with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He was a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, from 2008 to 2010 and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, from 2012 to 2013. He has authored/coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests include system reliability modeling and analysis, maintenance decisions, prognostics and health management, and design under uncertainty. Prof. Liu is an Editorial Board Member of Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, and Engineering Optimization, an Area Editor of the Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering, and an Associate Editor of IISE Transactions and IEEE Transactions on Reliability. He is an ISEAM Fellow." ]

[ "Dr Chao Jiang obtained his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Hunan University, China in 2008. He is currently a professor at the College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering and a vice president of Hunan University. His research focuses on mechanical design, with particular interests in uncertainty quantification, structural reliability, optimization design, and fracture and fatigue. He has published three monographs and approximately 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals with over 9000 citations (Web of Science). He serves as an Associate Editor of SAGE Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Computational Methods, International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design, Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, ASCEASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, etc. His has received National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, China Youth Science and Technology Award, Tencent Xplorer Prize, etc." ]

[ "Dr Yan-Feng Li received his PhD degree in mechatronics engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China, in 2013. He is currently a Full Professor with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has authored or coauthored over 50 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. His main research interests include reliability modeling, analysis and evaluation, fault diagnosis and prognostics. He has been a guest editor for several journals and a program committee member for several international conferences." ]

[ "Dr Michael Beer is Professor and Head of the Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. He is also a part time Professor at the University of Liverpool and a guest Professor at Tongji University and Beijing University of Science and Technology, China. He obtained a doctoral degree from Technical University Dresden, Germany, and worked for Rice University, National University of Singapore, and the University of Liverpool, UK. Dr Beer's research is focused on uncertainty quantification in engineering with emphasis on imprecise probabilities. Dr Beer is Editor in Chief of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A Civil Engineering and Part B Mechanical Engineering. He is the Editor-in-Chief (joint) of the Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering, an Associate Editor of Information Sciences, and an Editorial Board Member of Engineering Structures and several other international journals. He has won several awards including the Alfredo Ang Award on Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure of ASCE. Dr Beer is the Chairman of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) and a past Co-Chair of the Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee (RRMC), Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD), ASCE. He is serving on the Executive Board of the International Safety and Reliability Association (IASSAR), on the Executive Board of the European Association of Structural Dynamics (EASD), and on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (IAPSAM). He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and a Member of ASCE (EMI), ASME, CERRA, IACM, and GACM." ]

[ "Dr Jin Wang received his BSc degree from Dalian Maritime University, China in 1983, MSc and PhD degrees from Newcastle University, UK in 1989 and 1994, respectively. After 5 years as a Research Associate at Newcastle University, he joined Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) as a lecturer in 1995, was then promoted as Reader and Professor in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He has served as Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology and the Faculty of Health, Innovation, Technology and Science at LJMU since 2015 and also as Director of the Liverpool Logistics, Offshore and Marine (LOOM) Research Institute since 2003. His research interests are in design and operation of large maritime engineering systems. He has actively involved in a variety of research and scholarly activities such as organization of international conferences, provision of advice in national and international organizations as an expert, management of professional bodies in UK/Europe, and implementation of research programmes. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Marine Engineering and Technology." ]