Xiao-Lin Wang

Xiao-Lin Wang

Associate Professor

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  • 24-Apr-2026 - Xiao-Lin Wang visited the College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, and gave a talk entitled "Dynamically Monitoring Warranty Claims for Early Detection of Reliability Problems" (Invited by Assoc. Prof. Xiujie Zhao).

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    • 24-Dec-2025 - The paper "Joint Bundle Design and Pricing for Extended Warranty Providers Servicing Multi-Tier Products" authored by Yajing Chen, Yanrong Li, Xiao-Lin Wang, and Zhi-Sheng Ye has been accepted for publication by IISE Transactions.
    • 21-Nov-2025 - Our work "Warranty Reserve Management: Demand Learning and Funds Pooling" won the Fujian Provincial Outstanding Social Science Achievement Award (Second Prize).
    • 15-Nov-2025 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang organized The Second Young Scholars Workshop on Quality and Reliability, with the following 7 outstanding presentations:
      • "Maintenance Enhancement for Self-Service Systems Using Customer Incentives" by Dr. Yao Cheng from The University of Hong Kong,
      • "Towards Trustworthy AI: An Uncertainty Quantification-Based Framework for Reliable AI-Powered Cancer Subtyping in Pathology" by Dr. Xiaoge Zhang from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
      • "Intelligent Remaining Useful Lifetime Prediction Methods for Industrial Equipment" by Dr. Di Wang from Shanghai Jiaotong University,
      • "Dynamic and Probabilistic Forecasting of Multi-Way Profile Data with Applications to Smart Metro Systems" by Dr. Kai Wang from Xi'an Jiaotong University,
      • "Risk-adjusted Monitoring of Online User-generated Reviews via User Preference Learning" by Dr. Qiao Liang from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics,
      • "Big Data Modeling in Industrial Internet and Its Application in Quality Management" by Dr. Junjie Wang from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law,
      • "Design and Pricing of Extended Warranty Menus Based on Discrete Choice Models" by Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang himself.
    • 08-Sep-2025 - Our group welcomes the first PhD student, Zebin Hu, to join us. Wish Zebin an enjoyable PhD journey.
    • 27-Aug-2025 - The paper "Causally-Aware Spatio-Temporal Multi-Graph Convolution Network for Accurate and Reliable Traffic Prediction" authored by Pingping Dong, Xiao-Lin Wang, Indranil Bose, Kam K. H. Ng, Xiaoning Zhang, and Xiaoge Zhang has been accepted for publication by INFORMS Journal on Computing.
    • 07-Aug-2025 - The paper "Planning Bayesian Reliability Demonstration Tests via a Generalized Test Statistic" authored by Zan Li, Jianyu Xu, Chengjie Wang, and Xiao-Lin Wang has been accepted for publication by European Journal of Operational Research.
    • 29-Jul-2025 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang attended the 2025 International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (ICRMS2025) held in Shanghai, China, during 27 - 29 July 2025, and gave an invited talk entitled "Design and Pricing of Extended Warranty Menus Based on Discrete Choice Models."
    • 02-Jul-2025 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang attended the Third INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics & Reliability held in Singapore during 29 June - 04 July 2025. He organized an invited session on Recent Advances in Maintenance Decision Making and delivered a talk entitled "Classical Periodic Replacement Policy Revisited: An Operational Statistics Perspective."
    • 30-May-2025 - The paper "Design and Pricing of Extended Warranty Menus with Reference Effects" authored by Xiao-Lin Wang, Chenglong Li, and Junjie Wang has been accepted for publication by European Journal of Operational Research.
    • 01-Apr-2025 - The paper "Extended Warranty Pricing in a Competitive Aftermarket Under Logit Demand" authored by Xiao-Lin Wang, Shizhe Peng, and Xiaoge Zhang has been accepted for publication by European Journal of Operational Research.
    • 21-Feb-2025 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang is appointed as a special corresponding expert of Frontiers of Engineering Management. Look forward to serving the journal.
    • 23-Jan-2025 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang is organizing a special issue on "Quality and Reliability Frontiers and Applications" in the Industrial Engineering Journal 《工业工程》. Welcome to submit your best work to this special issue. Thank you!

      • 16-Dec-2024 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang attended the Symposium on Advanced Production System Theories and Applications held in Guangzhou, China, during 13-15 December 2024, and delivered an invited talk entitled "Classical Periodic Replacement Policy Revisited: An Operational Statistics Perspective."
      • 8-Dec-2024 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang attended the Annual Conference of CSOOPEM Industrial Engineering Branch held in Nanjing, China, during 6-8 December 2024, and served as one of the chief examiners for the Post-Graduate Student Workshop.
      • 6-Dec-2024 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang visited the School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University (his Alma Mater), and gave a talk entitled "Data Integrated Maintenance Decision Making: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities" (invited by Prof. Chun Su).
      • 24-Nov-2024 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang attended the Annual Conference of the Chinese Industrial Engineering Institute of CMES held in Zhuhai, China, during 22-24 November 2024, and delivered an invited talk entitled "Design and Pricing of Extended Warranty Menus with Reference Effects."
      • 26-Oct-2024 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang organized a Young Scholars Workshop on Quality and Reliability, with the following 7 outstanding presentations:
        • "Machine Learning Driven Quality Management" by Assoc. Prof. Xiaowei Yue from Tsinghua University,
        • "Modeling and Monitoring for Profile Data in Advanced Manufacturing" by Assoc. Prof. Chen Zhang from Tsinghua University,
        • "On Statistical Monitoring of Censored Lifetime Data and Two Special Signaling Phenomena" by Assoc. Prof. Chenglong Li from Northwest Polytechnic University,
        • "Physics-Informed Health Status Assessment of Control Rod Drive Mechanisms in Nuclear Reactors" by Assoc. Prof. Tangfan Xiahou from University of Electronic Science and Technology,
        • "移动时空窗口约束下多状态复杂系统的性能评估与优化——面向序贯任务需求" by Assoc. Prof. Wei Wang from Xi'an Jiaotong University,
        • "Performance-based Contract Design and Reliability Optimization for Multicomponent Complex Systems" by Assoc. Prof. Qianru Ge from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics,
        • "Data Integrated Maintenance Decision Making: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities" by Assoc. Prof. Xiao-Lin Wang himself.
      • 30-Jul-2024 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang attended The 12th Quality & Reliability Science and Technology Symposium organized by Peking University in Beijing, China, during 26-29 Jul 2024, and served as one of the examiners for the Doctoral Workshop.
      • 08-Jun-2024 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang visited Xi'an during 6-7 June 2024, and gave a talk entitled "Design and Pricing of Extended Warranty Menus Based on Discrete Choice Models" at the following two institutes:
        • 7 June - School of Management, Northwest Polytechnic University (invited by Assoc. Prof. Chenglong Li).
        • 6 June - School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University (invited by Prof. Chao Fang).
      • 27-Apr-2024 - The paper "Simultaneous or sequential? Retail strategy of a durable product and an extended warranty" authored by Xiao-Lin Wang, Qiuzhuang Sun, and Jianyu Xu has been accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
      • 22-Apr-2024 - Dr. Xiaoge Zhang and Dr. Jianyu Xu visited our Business School and gave the following talks, respectively:
        • "Enhancing the Performance of Neural Networks Through Causal Discovery and Integration of Domain Knowledge" by Dr. Xiaoge Zhang from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
        • "Non-stochastic Uncertainty in Online Maintenance for Multi-component Systems: A Contextual Combinatorial Bandit Approach" by Dr. Jianyu Xu from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
      • 20-Apr-2024 - Dr. Xiao-Lin Wang attended the Annual Conference of the Reliability Branch of the Operations Research Society of China (ORSC) held in Chengdu, China, during 20-21 April 2024, and delivered an invited talk entitled "Design and Pricing of Extended Warranty Menus Based on Discrete Choice Models."

        • 24-Nov-2023 - The paper "Online reinforcement learning for condition-based group maintenance using factored Markov decision processes" authored by Jianyu Xu, Bin Liu, Xiujie Zhao and Xiao-Lin Wang has been accepted for publication by European Journal of Operational Research.
        • 24-Oct-2023 - Xiao-Lin Wang's research has been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas).
        • 20-Oct-2023 - Xiao-Lin Wang gave a talk entitled "Design and Pricing of Extended Warranty Menus Based on Discrete Choice Models" at the College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University (Invited by Assoc. Prof. Xiujie Zhao).
        • 21-Aug-2023 - Xiao-Lin Wang gave a talk entitled "After-Sales Operations Decision Makings Based on Aggregate Warranty Claims Modelling" at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Invited by Prof. Qingpei Hu).
        • 29-Jun-2023 - Xiao-Lin Wang gave a talk entitled "Warranty Reserve Management: Demand Learning and Funds Pooling" at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Invited by Prof. Yu Liu).
        • 24-May-2023 - Xiao-Lin Wang delivered an online webinar entitled "Warranty Reserve Management: Demand Learning and Funds Pooling," at the School of Management Science and Engineering, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (Invited by Assoc. Prof. Qianru Ge).
        • 15-Apr-2023 - The paper "Monitoring Aggregate Warranty Claims with Dynamically Designed CUSUM and EWMA Charts" authored by Chenglong Li, Junjie Wang, and Xiao-Lin Wang has been accepted for publication by International Journal of Production Research.
        • 17-Feb-2023 - The paper "A prognostic driven predictive maintenance framework based on Bayesian deep learning" authored by Liangliang Zhuang, Ancha Xu, and Xiao-Lin Wang has been accepted for publication by Reliability Engineering & System Safety.

          • 18-Dec-2022 - Liangliang Zhuang (my former research assistant) attended the The 4th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety Engineering (online) during 15 - 18 Dec 2022, and presented the paper "A prognostic driven predictive maintenance framework based on Bayesian deep learning" by Liangliang Zhuang, Ancha Xu, and Xiao-Lin Wang. ​The paper has received the Best Student Paper Award.
          • 13-Nov-2022 - Liangliang Zhuang attended the The 6th Doctoral Forum on Statistics (online) during 12 - 13 Nov 2022, and presented the paper "A prognostic driven predictive maintenance framework based on Bayesian deep learning" by Liangliang Zhuang, Ancha Xu, and Xiao-Lin Wang. ​The paper has received the Best Student Paper Award (the second place).
          • 11 Nov 2022 - Xiao-Lin Wang organized the 5th Young Scholars Workshop sponsored by the ORSC Reliability Branch (Theme: Maintenance and Resilience of Complex Systems), with four outstanding presentations:
            • "Availability and Resilience Modelling under Dependent Recurrent Hazards" by Dr. Yao Cheng from the University of Hong Kong,
            • "Optimal Inspection Policy under Imperfect Predictions: Structural Analysis and Insights" by Dr. Guanlian Xiao from Cape Breton University,
            • "Reinforcement Learning in Engineering Management: Structural Properties and Feasible Solutions" by Dr. Jianyu Xu from XJTU-Liverpool University,
            • "Performance Testing and Maintenance Decisions for Safety-Instrumented Systems" by Dr. Aibo Zhang from City University of Hong Kong.
          • 01-Nov-2022 - The paper "Imperfect maintenance policies for warranted products under stochastic performance degradation" authored by Xiujie Zhao, Bin Liu, Jianyu Xu, and Xiao-Lin Wang has been accepted for publication by European Journal of Operational Research.
          • 08-Sep-2022 - Xiaolin Wang's research has been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Young Scientists Fund Program.
          • 29-Jul-2022 - Xiaolin Wang's research has been funded by the Ministry of Education of China under the Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation.
          • 27-Jul-2022 - Xiaolin Wang has joined the Business School, Sichuan University, as an associate professor (research track).
          • 13-Jul-2022 - The paper "A new cost-sharing preventive maintenance program under two-dimensional warranty" authored by Shizhe Peng, Wei Jiang, Lai Wei, and Xiao-Lin Wang has been accepted for publication by International Journal of Production Economics.
          • 26-May-2022 - The paper "Design and pricing of usage-driven customized two-dimensional extended warranty menus" authored by Xiao-Lin Wang has been accepted for publication by IISE Transactions.
          • 09-Jan-2022 - Xiaolin Wang presented the paper "Simultaneous or sequential? Retail strategies of a new product and an extended warranty" at the 12th POMS-HK International Conference, 8-9 Jan, 2022. The conference was originally scheduled to be held in Lingnan University, HK SAR, but was changed to an online event at the last minute due to a new wave of Omicron version of COVID-19 pandemic.