LiRong Cui, Professor, Qingdao University, China

Lirong Cui is a professor in the College of Quality & Standardization at Qingdao University, China. He received his Bachelor degree from Tiangong university in 1983, Master degree in Science from Institute of System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, PhD degree in Probability and Statistics from the University of Wales, UK, in 1994, respectively. He had worked in Chain Aerospace industry from 1986 to 1999. From 2000 to 2002, He was a Research Fellow in National university of Singapore. From 2003 to 2021, He had worked at Beijing Institute of Technology. Since May of 2021 He joined to Qingdao University. He has worked on quality and reliability-related problems since 1986, and published more than 130 papers and technical reports. In 2000, he co-authored a book on reliability which was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. He was the person from mainland China to serve as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability from 2005 to 2015. He also serves as an associate editor for IISE Transactions, Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, Simulation and Computation and E-Journal of Reliability: Theory & Applications. In 2005, He was awarded the new century excellent talents in university of China. He has gotten 6 general programs and 1 key program from NSFC since he joined BIT. His recent research interests are in aggregated stochastic processes and maintenance modelling, degradation reliability analysis, finite Markov chain imbedding approach, cascading failures, balanced system reliability, optimal matching, Hawkes processes, model-based problems, data-driven problems etc.