Pingfeng Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and the director of the Reliability Analysis and Safety Assurance (RASA) lab at Illinois. He received his B.S. in 2001 in Mechanical Engineering from University of Science and Technology in Beijing, his M.S. in 2006 in Applied Math from Tsinghua University, and his Ph.D. in 2010 in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland. Dr. Wang’s research has been focused on developing new design methods and tools to improve reliability, safety and failure resilience of engineered systems. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2014), the Young Researcher Award from International Society of Green Manufacturing and Applications (2012), the ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award (2016), and Best Paper Awards in the ASME Design Automation Conferences (2008 and 2013).