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51
Citations
9928
World Ranking
3859
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775

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to reliability design for microelectronics products and systems.

Overview

Way Kuo is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, mathematics, and decision sciences, with a significant emphasis on safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

Their publication record includes a variety of topics such as reliability and maintenance optimization, probabilistic and robust engineering design, risk and safety analysis, statistical distribution estimation and applications, software reliability and analysis research, analytic number theory research, and advanced multi-objective optimization algorithms.

Way Kuo has authored several notable papers, including:

  • In situ design of advanced titanium alloy with concentration modulations by additive manufacturing (2021) in Science
  • Chemically complex intermetallic alloys: A new frontier for innovative structural materials (2021) in Materials Today
  • An Overview of Adaptive-Surrogate-Model-Assisted Methods for Reliability-Based Design Optimization (2022) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  • Guest Editorial: Crisis Management-From Nuclear Accidents to Outbreaks of COVID-19 and Infectious Diseases (2020) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  • Bayesian support vector machine for optimal reliability design of modular systems (2022) in Reliability Engineering & System Safety

Frequent collaborators in their research include Chunyan Ling, Jingzhe Lei, Han-Lin Li, Shu-Cherng Fang, and Min Xie.

Way Kuo's work is regularly published in several academic venues, most notably:

  • IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  • Advances in Pure Mathematics
  • Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • Quality and Reliability Engineering International
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and Reliability

Their contributions to reliability design and engineering have been recognized through honors such as being named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007 and election as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2000, particularly for contributions to reliability design for microelectronics products and systems.

Best Publications

  • Optimal Reliability Modeling: Principles and Applications

    Way Kuo;Ming J. Zuo

  • An annotated overview of system-reliability optimization

    W. Kuo;V.R. Prasad

  • Recent Advances in Optimal Reliability Allocation

    Way Kuo;Rui Wan

  • Optimal Reliability Design: Fundamentals and Applications

    Way Kuo;V. Rajendra Prasad;Tillman, Frank, A.;C. L. Hwang

  • Optimization Techniques for System Reliability with RedundancyߞA Review

    Frank A. Tillman;Ching-Lai Hwang;Way Kuo

  • Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk, and Optimization: Principles and Applications

    Way Kuo;Xiaoyan Zhu

  • Determining Component Reliability and Redundancy for Optimum System Reliability

    Frank A. Tillman;Ching-Lai Hwang;Way Kuo

  • Degradation models and implied lifetime distributions

    Suk Joo Bae;Way Kuo;Paul H. Kvam

  • Some Recent Advances on Importance Measures in Reliability

    Way Kuo;Xiaoyan Zhu

  • A consecutive-k-out-of-n:G system: the mirror image of a consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system

    W. Kuo;W. Zhang;M. Zuo

  • Facing the headaches of early failures: A state-of-the-art review of burn-in decisions

    Way Kuo;Yue Kuo

  • An overview of manufacturing yield and reliability modeling for semiconductor products

    Way Kuo;Taeho Kim

  • Reliability redundancy allocation: An improved realization for nonconvex nonlinear programming problems

    Chunghun Ha;Way Kuo

  • Reliability optimization of coherent systems

    V.R. Prasad;W. Kuo

  • Detection of Spatial Defect Patterns Generated in Semiconductor Fabrication Processes

    Tao Yuan;Way Kuo;Suk Joo Bae

  • A condition-based maintenance policy for degrading systems with age- and state-dependent operating cost

    Bin Liu;Shaomin Wu;Min Xie;Way Kuo

  • Reliability Optimization with the Lagrange-Multiplier and Branch-and-Bound Technique

    Way Kuo;Hsin-Hui Lin;Zhongkai Xu;Weixing Zhang

  • Optimization limits in improving system reliability

    Z. Xu;W. Kuo;H.-H. Lin

  • A value-based preventive maintenance policy for multi-component system with continuously degrading components

    Bin Liu;Zhengguo Xu;Min Xie;Way Kuo

  • Detection and classification of defect patterns on semiconductor wafers

    Chih Hsuan Wang;Way Kuo;Halima Bensmail

  • Design and performance analysis of consecutive-k-out-of-n structure

    Mingjian Zuo;Way Kuo

Frequent Co-Authors

Min Xie
Min Xie City University of Hong Kong
Ming J. Zuo
Ming J. Zuo University of Alberta
Frank K. Hwang
Frank K. Hwang National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Lirong Cui
Lirong Cui Beijing Institute of Technology
Shu-Cherng Fang
Shu-Cherng Fang North Carolina State University
Mitsuo Gen
Mitsuo Gen Tokyo University of Science
Hairong Qi
Hairong Qi University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Shaomin Wu
Shaomin Wu University of Kent
Hong-Zhong Huang
Hong-Zhong Huang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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