Education
2008-2012 Ph.D, Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore
2004-2008 B.Eng, Material Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University
2006-2008 B.Eco, Economics, Tsinghua University

Work Experience

07/2020-now Associate professor, Industrial Systems Engineering & Management, National University of Singapore
02/2014-06/2020 Assistant professor, Industrial Systems Engineering & Management, National University of Singapore

Research Interests

Data-driven operations management: from data to decision
Mathematical and industrial statistics: semiparametric models, hypothesis test, industrial data analysis, design of data collection schemes
System resilience: reliability engineering, condition-based maintenance,  complex systems modelling

Honors & Awards

NUS CDE Young Researcher Award, 2024.
NUS CDE College Teaching Excellence Award, 2022/2023.
Best Paper Award for the paper Robust Condition-Based Production and Maintenance Planning for
Degradation Management", INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (ICQSR) 2023,
NC, US.
Best Application Paper Finalist for the paper Robust Condition-Based Production and Maintenance
Planning for Degradation Management, Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Section of INFORMS Annual
Conference 2022, Indiana, US.
Dean's Chair, 01/2022-now.

Representative Publications

[1] Li, X., Ye Z.S., and Zhao, X. (2025) Sieve estimation of the accelerated mean model based on panel count data. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 237: 106247.
[2] Lu, B., Wang, X., Cui, W., and Ye Z.S. (2025) A predictive opportunistic maintenance policy for a serial parallel multi-station manufacturing system with heterogeneous components. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 256, 110711.
[3] Wang, Y., Hu, X., Tong, J., Ye Z.S., Chen, Y. and Tang, C.Y. (2025) Semiparametric Sieve Estimation for Survival Data with Two-layer Censoring, Biometrika, asaf006.
[4] Ma, L., Jiang, B., Lu, N., Guo, Q., and Ye Z.S.. (2024) Aeroengine Bearing Time-Varying Skidding Assessment With Prior Knowledge-Embedded Dual Feedback Spatial-Temporal GCN. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Early Access.
[5] Xiao, P., Wang, Y., Ye Z.S. and Liu, W. (2024) Remaining Useful Life Prediction Based on Forward Intensity, Technometrics, 1-16.
[6] Zhang, X., Ye Z.S., and Haskell, W.B. (2024) Error propagation in asymptotic analysis of the data-driven (s, S) inventory policy. Operations Research, 73(1), 1-21.
[7] Xiao, X, Ye Z.S., Revie M. (2024) Learning Local Cascading Failure Pattern from Massive Network Failure Data, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 73(5), 1155-1184.
[8] Zhai, Q., Ye Z.S., Li, C., Revie, M., and Dunson, D. (2024) Modeling recurrent failures on large directed networks. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1-15.
[9] Wang, J., Ye Z.S., and Chen, Y. (2024) Likelihood-based Inference under Non-Convex Boundary Constraints Biometrika, 111(2), 591-607.
[10] Wen, P., Ye Z.S., Li, Y., Chen, S., Xie, P., and Zhao, S. (2024). Physics-informed neural networks for prognostics and health management of lithium-ion batteries. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 9(1), 2276-2289.

NUS Webpage

https://cde.nus.edu.sg/isem/staff/ye-zhisheng/