[ "Lirong Cui is a distinguished professor and ISEAM fellow in the Business School of Qingdao University. He graduated from Tianjin Polytechnic University in 1983 (Bachelor of Engineering), from the Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986 (Master of Science), and from the University of Wales (Swansea) in 1994 (PhD in Probability and Statistics). He worked at the Ministry of Aerospace Industry of China from 1986 to 1999, at the National University of Singapore from 2000 to 2022, and at the School of Management of Beijing Institute of Technology from 2003 to May 2021. He has been working at Qingdao University since May 2021. He has worked as a visiting scholar in the UK and Taiwan. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability for 10 years (2005.1-2015.9). He currently serves as an associate editor of IISE Transactions, Communications in Statistics, Quality Technology & Quantitative Management. He was and/or is now the branch director and deputy director of several academic organizations. He has published more than 170 SCI indexed papers and one English monograph. In 2005, he was named as one of the New Century Outstanding Talents of the Ministry of Education. He has supervised more than 40 PhD students and nearly 300 aster students in mathematical and/or management subjects. He has chaired (was and is now) six general programs and one key program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His main research interests are: system reliability, aggregated stochastic process and repairable system modeling, degradation system reliability, finite Markov chain embedding method, cascade failures, balanced system reliability, optimal matching, Hawkes process, stochastic differential equations in reliability, data-based modeling and analyses, etc." ]

[ "Zheming Cao graduated with a bachelor's degree from Tianjin University of Technology and is currently studying in the field of reliability engineering at Qingdao University." ]