Hoang Pham, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University, USA

Hoang Pham is a Distinguished Professor and former Chairman (2007-2013) of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University. He is also a co-founding member and an Associate Director of the Rutgers Center for Information Assurance. Before joining Rutgers, he was a Senior Engineering Specialist with the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and Boeing Company, Seattle. His research areas include reliability modeling and prediction, software reliability, and statistical inference. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering and editor of Springer Series in Reliability Engineering and has been conference chair and program chair of over 40 international conferences and workshops. Dr. Pham is the author or coauthor of 7 books and has published over 200 journal articles and edited 20 books including Springer Handbook in Engineering Statistics and Handbook in Reliability Engineering. He has delivered over 40 invited keynote and plenary speeches at many international conferences and institutions. His numerous awards include the 2009 IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAIA, and IISE.