[ "Gregory Levitin received his PhD degree in Industrial Automation from Moscow Research Institute of Metalworking Machines in 1989. From 1982 to 1990 he worked as software engineer and researcher in the field of industrial automation. From 1991 to 1993 he worked at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) as a postdoctoral fellow at the faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. Prof Levitin is presently a senior expert at the Reliability Department of NOGA—Israel Independent System Operator and distinguished visiting professor at Southwest Jiaotong University. His current interests are in system reliability. In this field, Prof Levitin has published more than 400 papers and five books. He served as a chair of the ESRA Technical Committee on System Reliability, as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability and area coordinator of the International Journal of Performability Engineering. Now he serves as editor of Reliability Engineering & System Safety, and is a member of the editorial boards of several other journals." ]

[ "Liudong Xing received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA in 2002. She is a Commonwealth Professor and College of Engineering Director of Research at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Dartmouth, USA. Her research interests include reliability and resilience modeling, analysis and optimization of complex systems and networks. Prof Xing was the recipient of multiple university, IEEE, and international teacher and scholar awards. She was also a co-recipient of the Best (Student) Paper Award at several international conferences and journals. She has published over 320 journal articles and three research monographs titled ‘Binary Decision Diagrams and Extensions for System Reliability Analysis’, ‘Dynamic System Reliability: Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic and Dependent Behaviors’, and ‘Reliability and Resilience in the Internet of Things’. She serves as an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of multiple journals, including the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Access (Reliability Society Section), Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering, among others. She is a fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management." ]