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Yi Yang earned a PhD at Nanjing University of Science and
Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2008. She worked for five
years at the Astronaut Research and Training Center, Beijing,
China, and she was engaged in postdoctoral research at the
School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang
University (BUAA), Beijing, China, where currently she is an
associate professor. She was a visiting scholar at the School of
Computing and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney,
Parramatta, Australia, for one year.
Her main research interests include reliability analysis and design, repair-
able systems, control science, and engineering. Her recent ...