Qiang Feng

Yi Ren received the Ph.D. degree in reliability engineering and systems engineering from Beihang University. He is currently a professor, a reliability specialist and a member on the faculty of system engineering at the School of Reliability and System Engineering at Beihang University in Beijing, China. He is currently the associate director of the Institute of reliability engineering at Beihang University. He has over 20 years of research and teaching experience in reliability engineering and system engineering. He is the Team Leader of the KW-GARMS© reliability engineering software platform, and a holder of six Chinese ministry-level professional awards and one Chinese nation-level professional award. His recent research interests include reliability of complex systems, physics of failure, model-based reliability systems engineering (MBRSE), computer aided reliability analysis and simulation, reliability digital engineering, and product life-cycle reliability engineering management. He has led over 20 projects supported by government, industries and companies, and has published over 100 papers and 3 books.