Dean's Chair Professor Zhisheng Ye
ACCEPTING PHD STUDENTS
Faculty & Department
Joint Appointments
Professor, Integrative Sciences and Engineering
Deputy Head (Undergraduate Programmes), Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, College of Design and Engineering
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bachelor of Economics, Tsinghua University, China
Bachelor of Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Bio
Dr Ye received double bachelor’s degrees in Materials Science and Engineering, and Economics from Tsinghua University in 2008 and he obtained his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is currently an Associate Professor and Dean’s Chair in the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, NUS. His research focuses on resilience and reliability engineering, industrial statistics, and data-driven operations management. He has published more than 100 papers in leading journals in reliability, statistics, and operations management, including Bernoulli, Biometrics, Biometrika, JASA, JMLR, JRSS-B, JRSS-C, Technometrics, JQT, IISE Transactions, OR, MSOM, POMS, and the IEEE Transactions series.
Contact Information
I am looking for self-motivated students in the areas of data-driven decision making, emergency response, statistics, resilience, and reliability engineering.
Data-driven operations management: Inventory control, emergency response, preventive maintenance
Mathematical statistics and Industrial statistics: empirical process, sieve estimation, lifetime data, recurrent event data, warranty data, and data from operations management.
Reliability engineering and complex systems modelling: systems involving physical components and human; degradation modeling, remaining useful life prediction, anomaly detection, burn-in testing, accelerated testing, preventive maintenance, warranty cost modelling
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