Conference

Best (Student) Paper Award

  • Thomas L. Fagan, Jr., RAMS Student Paper Award (Third Place) at the 2025 Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) 
  • J. Ren (M.S. 2025; Ph.D. Student) and L. Xing (adviser), “Mission Reliability of Collaborative Heterogenous Drone Rescue System,” Proceedings of The 71st Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, Miramar Beach, Florida, USA, January 27-30, 2025, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/RAMS48127.2025.10935031
  • Best Paper Award at the 2020 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering.
    Y. Hu, C. Wang (Ph.D. 2014), and L. Xing, “Reliability Analysis of k-out-of-n Phased-Mission Systems with Phase-AND Requirement,” Proc. of International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, Xi’an, China, October 08-11, 2020
  • Best Paper Award at the 2017 International Conference on Reliability Systems Engineering (ICRSE).
    Y. Wang (Ph.D. 2016) 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
  • Second Place in the Tom Fagan Reliability & Maintainability Symposium Student Paper Competition in 2012
    O. Tannous (Ph.D. Student) and L. Xing (adviser), “Efficient Analysis of Warm Standby Systems using Central Limit Theorem,” Proc. of The 58th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, Reno, NV, USA, January 2012
  • Best Paper Award @ the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, July 2009
    R. Ma (Ph.D. Student), L. Xing (adviser), 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 (Ph.D. Student), L. Xing (adviser), and H. Liu, “Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks” .

Keynote/Plenary Speech

  • Plenary Speaker, The 7th International Conference on Mathematical Techniques in Engineering Applications, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, December 5-6, 2025.
  • Plenary Speaker, The 9th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, Turin, Italy, November 26 – 28, 2025.
  • Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, 2024
  • Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power, and Communication Technologies, February 2024
  • Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, August 2019
  • Invited Speaker at the 17th China Fault Tolerant Computing Conference, Nanjing, China, July 18-20, 2017
  • Plenary Speaker at the International Conference on Networks and Information, New York, USA, January 7-9, 2016