Prof. Dr. Baoliang Liu received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and applied mathematics from the Yanbei Normal University in 2004. From Yanshan University he earned a Master's Degree in Computational Mathematics (2007). He completed his PhD studies in Management Science and Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology in 2015. Since 2007, he has been working at Shanxi Datong University. Now he is a professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. His research fields include reliability theory and its application, uncertainty theory and its application, and stochastic modeling. He is also the director of the reliability branch of the Chinese Operations Research Society and the industrial engineering branch of the Chinese Society for Optimization, Coordination, and Economic Mathematics. He was awarded the Outstanding Teacher of Shanxi Datong University in 2017-2018 and the Third Prize of the Advanced Individual with Outstanding Contribution to Scientific Research of Shanxi Datong University in 2016-2018. He was selected as the Young Outstanding Talent of Shanxi Province's "Sanjin Talents" Support Program in 2018 and the Academic and Technical Leader of Datong City (2020).