Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Gregory Levitin
NOGA - Israel Independent System Operator

Speech Title: Protecting Complex Systems from Disasters and Deliberate Attacks
Bio: The purpose of this talk is to introduce situations in which complex technical or organizational systems are involved in accidents, crises, wars, and terrorism. Phenomena related to reliability, risk, safety, security, and vulnerability will be considered. Models integrating risk analysis, reliability theory, and game theory will be presented. A system defense strategy combining partitioning, protection, decoy deployment, and preemptive strike will be explored, and the interrelationships between various defensive actions will be analyzed. A generalized model of damage caused to a complex multi-state series-parallel system resulting from a deliberate attack will be presented. The problem of limited resource allocation among various defense measures will be considered in optimal and minimax formulations. Illustrative examples will be provided.

Bio: Gregory Levitin received his PhD degree in Industrial Automation from Moscow Research Institute of Metalworking Machines in 1989. From 1982 to 1990 he worked as software engineer and researcher in the field of industrial automation. From 1991 to 1993 he worked at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) as a postdoctoral fellow at the faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. Prof. Levitin is presently a senior expert at the Reliability Department of NOGA - Israel Independent System Operator and distinguished visiting professor at Southwest Jiaotong University. His current interests are in system reliability. In this field Prof. Levitin has published more than 400 papers and five books. He served as a chair of the ESRA Technical Committee on System Reliability, as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, area coordinator of International Journal of Performability Engineering. Now he serves as editor of Reliability Engineering & System Safety, and member of editorial boards of several other journals.

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Yu Liu
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Speech Title: TBA
Bio: TBA

Bio: Yu Liu is the Full Professor of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and also the Director of University Undergraduate Academic Affairs Office at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his PhD degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He was a Visiting Pre-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston, U.S.A. from 2008 to 2010, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada from 2012 to 2013. He has published 3 Springer books and over 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IISE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, Reliability Engineering and System Safety. He has been recognized as one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier since 2016 and the World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2020. He was a recipient of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program Distinguished Professors, National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, IISE QCRE Teaching Award, the Youth Science and Technology Award of Operations Research Society of China, and the HIWIN Doctoral Dissertation Award sponsored by Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers and HIWIN Technologies Corporation. He serves as an Associate Editor of IISE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Engineering Optimization, Review Editor of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Area Editor of Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering, and one of the editorial board members of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Engineering Optimization, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering. He also serves as the President of Reliability Society, Operations Research Society of China. He is an ISEAM Fellow.