Dr. Min Xie, Chair professor of Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at City university of Hong Kong, was appointed adjunct professor at Tsinghua University for a period of three years on Jan. 2015. Dr. Min Xie will commit to the research and education in the relevant fields of both Department of Industrial Engineering and Tsinghua Institute of Quality and Reliability, especially promote the development of quality and reliability.

Dr. Xie did his undergraduate study at Royal Inst of Technology in Sweden and received his MSc in 1984. Later he received his PhD from Linkoping University, Sweden in 1987. Dr Xie joined the National University of Singapore in 1991 as one of the first recipients of the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew research fellowship. In May 2011, Prof Xie moved to City University of Hong Kong as Chair professor of industrial engineering. Prof Xie has published over 200 SCI papers and 8 books, including “Software Reliability Modelling” by World Scientific, “Weibull Models” by John Wiley, “Stochastic Aging and Dependence for Reliability” by Springer, “Advanced QFD Applications” by ASQ Quality Press. He is an editor, associate editor and on the editorial board of more than 15 international journals. Prof Xie is an elected fellow of IEEE.