Prof. Dr. Li Yang is currently an Associate professor in the Outstanding Hundred Talents Program at the School of Reliability and Systems Engineering at Beihang University. He graduated from Beihang University with a Ph.D. in systems engineering. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering at the University of Toronto. In recent years, he has served as the first and corresponding author in many journals in industrial engineering, reliability, and health. More than 70 papers have been published in top international journals in management and other fields, including more than 50 SCI papers (including 28 papers in the first area/top of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 38 papers in the JCR Q1 area, and 15 ABS3/4 star papers). He has published one book and accepted and authorized more than 10 patents. His research field includes intelligent operation and maintenance control, decision-making, and optimization, system reliability analysis and risk assessment, safety monitoring and failure prediction, and machine learning methods and applications.