Bayesian Inference and Computation in Reliability and Survival Analysis

Dr. Yuhlong Lio is a professor with the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA. He is an associate editor of professional journals, including the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. He is the co-editor of Statistical Modeling for Degradation Data and Statistical Quality Technologies: Theory and Practice. His research interests include reliability, quality control, censoring methodology, kernel smoothing estimation, and accelerated degradation data modelling. Dr. Lio has more than 100 refereed publications.

Dr. Ding-Geng Chen is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and currently the executive director and professor in biostatistics at Arizona State University. He was the Wallace Kuralt Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a professor in biostatistics at the University of Rochester, and the Karl E. Peace Endowed Eminent Scholar Chair in Biostatistics at Georgia Southern University. He is also a senior statistics consultant for biopharmaceuticals and government agencies with extensive expertise in Monte Carlo simulations, clinical trial biostatistics, and public health statistics. Dr. Chen has more than 200 refereed professional publications, and he has co-authored and co-edited 33 books on clinical trial methodology, meta-analysis, and public health applications. He has been invited nationally and internationally to give speeches on his research. Dr. Chen was honored with the "Award of Recognition" in 2014 by the Deming Conference Committee for highly successful advanced biostatistics workshop tutorials with his books.

Dr. Hon Keung Tony Ng is currently a professor of statistical science with Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA. He is an associate editor of Communications in Statistics, Computational Statistics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Naval Research Logistics, Sequential Analysis and Statistics and Probability Letters. His research interests include reliability, censoring methodology, ordered data analysis, nonparametric methods, and statistical inference. He has published more than 140 research papers in refereed journals. He is the co-author of the book Precedence-Type Tests and Applications and co-editor of Statistical Modeling for Degradation Data, Statistical Quality Technologies: Theory and Practice, Ordered Data Analysis, and Modeling and Health Research Methods. Professor Ng is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected senior member of IEEE, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

Dr. Tzong-Ru Tsai is currently the Dean of the College of Business and Management and a professor in the Department of Statistics at Tamkang University in New Taipei City, Taiwan. His main research interests include quality control, reliability analysis, and machine learning. He has served as a consultant with extensive expertise in statistical quality control and experimental design for many companies in the past years. He is the co-editor of Statistical Modeling for Degradation Data and Statistical Quality Technologies: Theory and Practice. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation and Mathematics. Dr. Tsai has more than 100 refereed publications.

Dr. Yuhlong Lio是美國南達科他州維米利恩市南達科他大學數學科學系的教授。他是多本專業期刊的副編輯，包括《統計計算與模擬期刊》。他是《退化數據的統計建模》和《統計品質技術：理論與實踐》的共同編輯。他的研究興趣包括可靠性、品質控制、審查方法學、核平滑估計和加速退化數據建模。Lio博士已發表超過100篇經過同行評審的論文。

Dr. Ding-Geng Chen是美國統計學會的會士，目前擔任亞利桑那州立大學生物統計學的執行主任和教授。他曾是北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校的Wallace Kuralt傑出教授，羅徹斯特大學生物統計學的教授，以及喬治亞南方大學生物統計學的Karl E. Peace傑出學者講座。他還是生物製藥和政府機構的高級統計顧問，擁有豐富的蒙特卡羅模擬、臨床試驗生物統計學和公共衛生統計學專業知識。陳博士已發表超過200篇經過同行評審的專業論文，並共同撰寫和編輯了33本臨床試驗方法學、元分析和公共衛生應用的書籍。他曾受邀在國內外發表研究演講。陳博士於2014年獲得Deming Conference Committee頒發的「表彰獎」，以表彰他在高級生物統計學研討會教學方面的卓越成就。

Dr. Hon Keung Tony Ng目前是美國德州達拉斯市南衛理公會大學統計科學的教授。他是《統計通訊》、《計算統計學》、《IEEE可靠性交易》、《統計計算與模擬期刊》、《海軍研究後勤學報》、《順序分析》和《統計與概率信件》的副編輯。他的研究興趣包括可靠性、審查方法學、有序數據分析、非參數方法和統計推斷。他在經過同行評審的期刊上發表了超過140篇研究論文。他是《Precedence-Type Tests and Applications》的共同作者，並共同編輯了《退化數據的統計建模》、《統計品質技術：理論與實踐》、《有序數據分析》和《建模與健康研究方法》。Ng教授是美國統計學會的會士，IEEE的選舉高級會員，以及國際統計學會的選舉會員。

Dr. Tzong-Ru Tsai目前是台灣新北市淡江大學商學與管理學院的院長，並在統計學系擔任教授。他的主要研究興趣包括品質控制、可靠性分析和機器學習。他曾在過去多年擔任許多公司的統計品質控制和實驗設計顧問。他是《退化數據的統計建模》和《統計品質技術：理論與實踐》的共同編輯。他是《統計計算與模擬期刊》和《數學》的副編輯。蔡博士已發表超過100篇經過同行評審的論文。