Kaiye Gao received his Ph.D. in management science and engineering from the University of Science and Technology, Beijing. He is a professor with the School of Economics and Management at Beijing Information Science and Technology, China and is a postdoctoral researcher with the Academy of Mathematics and System Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He visited the Department of Mathematics, the University of Manchester, from 2016 to 2017. His interests include system reliability, risk analysis and optimization, maintenance, quality and health management. He has over 50 published or accepted papers in journals and conference proceedings such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; Systems, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, and Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability.