Mian Li is an Associate Professor in the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, and adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park in 2007 with the Best Dissertation Award. He received his BE (1994) and MS (2001) in Control Engineering both from Tsinghua University, China. Within the Mechanical Engineering Program at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, his research work has been focused on robust/reliability based multidisciplinary design optimization and control, funded by NSF China and other funding agencies. He is the member of ASME, IEEE, IES and SAE.