Zhiqiang Cai received a B.S. degree in Aircraft Design and Engineering, an M.S. degree in Management Science and Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China, in 2003, 2006, and 2010, respectively. Now, he is the Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, NPU, and the Outstanding Young Scholar of Shaanxi Province, China. Dr. Cai’s research interests include reliability modelling, importance measures, and reliability optimization for complex systems. He has been the principal investigator for several key projects like National Nature Science Foundation of China, Foreign Experts Project of Ministry of Science and Technology, Aeronautical Science Foundation of China, Key R&D Program of Shaanxi Province, and Basic Research Project of Natural Science of Shaanxi Province. In the last 5 years, he has published more than 40 papers in top international journals like IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, and Applied Mathematics and Computation. He has been granted eight Chinese invention patents and was awarded the Best Paper of 2022 IEEE Global Reliability and Prognostics and Health Management Conference and the Outstanding Paper of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.
