Jang Wook Hur received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1995. While serving in the Republic of Korea National Military, he, in 2011, was ranked Colonel, and took part in various projects funded by the Korean Government, such as the DAPA KHP Project. From 2015 to 2020, he led the project team in the RAM program aimed at optimizing reliability, availability, and maintainability in the Korean Defense Systems. He is currently the Head of the Department for Mechanical Systems Engineering and the Director of the Defense Reliability Laboratory (an advanced research center supported by the Korean Government) at Kumoh National University of Science and Technology. He is currently the Vice President of the Korean Society for Prognostics and Health Management (KSPHM). His research interests are prognostics and health management, reliability engineering, and systems engineering.