Zhimin Xi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Rutgers University – New Brunswick. He received his B.S. and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Program of Reliability Engineering) at the University of Maryland – College Park in 2010. His research interests are design for reliability and the applications for reliable autonomous vehicles/robots, lithium-ion batteries, and additive manufacturing. He is the recipient of 2021 ASME – Design Automation Young Investigator Award, 2019 Rutgers A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award, and 2016 DARPA – Young Faculty Award.