Dr. Rong Pan is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Data Science in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University. He is the program chair of the Data Science, Analytics and Engineering PhD program at ASU. His research interests include failure time data analysis, design of experiments, multivariate statistical process control, time series analysis, and computational Bayesian methods. He has over 20 years’ experience in teaching and research in the areas of statistical methods for reliability modeling and data analysis. His research has been supported by NSF, Arizona Science Foundation, Air Force Research Lab, etc. He has published over 90 journal papers and 60+ refereed conference papers. He was the recipient of the Stan Ofsthum Award in 2008, 2011 and 2018 and William A. Golomski Award in 2015 and 2020. His papers won the Best Reliability Paper Award of Quality Engineering in 2012 and 2013.  Dr. Pan is a senior member of ASQ, IIE and IEEE, and a lifetime member of SRE. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Quality Technology and Quality Engineering.