Speaker

Professor David COIT

David Coit is a Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA. He has also had visiting professor positions at Universite Paris-Saclay, Paris, France and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His current teaching and research involves system reliability modeling and optimization, and energy systems optimization. He has over 140 published journal papers and over 100 peer-reviewed conference papers (h-index 68). He is currently an Associate Editor for Reliability Engineering & System Safety (RESS) and Journal of Risk and Reliability and was previously an Associate or Department Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability and IISE Transactions. His research has been funded by USA National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. His NSF grants included a CAREER grant to develop new reliability optimization algorithms considering uncertainty. He has been the recipient of the P. K. McElroy award, Alain O. Plait award and William A. J. Golomski award for best papers and tutorials at the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS). Prof. Coit received a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and MS and PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a fellow of Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE).