Awards

Honors & Awards by Group Members

  • Best Paper Award at  the 2020 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering
    Y. Hu, C. Wang (Ph.D. 2014), L. Xing (adviser), “Reliability Analysis of k-out-of-n Phased-Mission Systems with Phase-AND Requirement,” Proc. of The 10th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, Xi’an, China, October 8-11, 2020
  • 2018 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Wireless Sensor Systems .
    A. E. Zonouz (Ph.D. 2015), L. Xing (co-adviser), V. M. Vokkarane (co-adviser), and Y. Sun, “Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks: A Reliability, Cost and Energy-Aware Approach,” IET Wireless Sensor Systems, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 42-48, 2016 (Link)
  • Best Paper Award at the 2017 International Conference on Reliability Systems Engineering (ICRSE) (news).
    Y. Wang (Ph.D. 2016, current postdoc @ UESTC) and L. Xing (adviser), “Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks subject to Phase-Dependent Probabilistic Competing Failures,” Proc. of International Conference on Reliability Systems Engineering, Beijing, China, July 10-12, 2017
  • Best Paper Award at the 2015 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (News).
    Q. Liu (Ph.D. student) and L. Xing (adviser), “Hierarchical Reliability Analysis of Multi-state Cloud-RAID Storage System,” Proc. of International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, Beijing, China, July 21-24, 2015
  • Thomas L. Fagan, Jr. Best Student Paper Award (First Place) at the 2015 Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) (News).
    Y. Wang (Ph.D. student), L. Xing (co-adviser), H. Wang (co-adviser), and G. Levitin, “Probabilistic Competing Failure Analysis in Body Sensor Networks,” Proc. of 2015 Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, Palm Harbor, FL, January 2015
  • Amir Ehsani Zonouz won the first Siemens Mobility IDEA (Improving Design and Engineering for All) Contest (First Place) , an initiative to find innovative ideas to help solve five of the toughest challenges facing the traffic industry, 2015
  • Amir Ehsani Zonouz received the Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the 60th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS2014) at Colorado, Springs, January 27-30, 2014. His travel was also partly supported by NSF grant 1112947
  • The paper “Efficient Analysis of Warm Standby Systems using Central Limit Theorem” coauthored by Ola Tannous and L. Xing won the Second Place in the Tom Fagan Reliability & Maintainability Symposium Student Paper Competition in 2012.
  • Amir Ehsani Zonouz received the Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the 18th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, July 26-28, 2012 in Boston, MA. Her travel was also partly supported by NSF grant 1112947
  • Chaonan Wang received the Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the 18th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, July 26-28, 2012 in Boston, MA. Her travel was also partly supported by NSF grant 1112947
  • Ola Tannous received the Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS 2012), Jan. 23-26, 2012 in Reno, Nevada. Her travel was also partly supported by NSF grant 0832594
  • Chaonan Wang received the Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the Annual Meeting of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), Nov. 13-16, 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her travel was also partly supported by NSF grant 0832594
  • Prashanthi Boddu received the Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS 2012), Jan. 23-26, 2012 in Reno, Nevada. Her travel was also partly supported by NSF grant 0832594
  • Chaonan Wang received the Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the Seventh International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability – Theory, Methods, Applications in Beijing, June 20-24, 2011. Her travel was also partly supported by NSF grant 0832594
  • Ola Tannous received the NSF EASPI fellowship for summer 2011.
  • Ola Tannous received the Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the 57th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, FL, USA, January 2011. Her travel was also partly supported by NSF grant 0832594
  • Monika Shrestha and Prashanthi Boddu both received Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the 16th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, Washington D.C., August 2010. Their travels were also partly supported by NSF grant 0832594
  • Ruiping Ma received Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend NAS 2009 in China.
  • Akhilesh Shrestha is the Graduate Commencement Speaker in May 2009.
  • Best Paper Award @ the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, July 2009
    R. Ma*, L. Xing, T. Jin, and T. Song, “A Data Transmission Mechanism for Survivable Sensor Networks,” Proc. of The IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), Zhang Jia Jie, China, July 9-11, 2009
  • Second place in the IEEE Region 1 Graduate Student Paper Contest in 2006 (PDF)
    A. Shrestha*, L. Xing (advisor), and H. Liu, “Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks” .