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ICQSR 2025 Best Paper Award Finalists

  • 1.  ICQSR 2025 Best Paper Award Finalists

    Posted 06-09-2025 12:30

    Dear Colleagues 

    The ICQSR 2025 Best Paper Competition committee is excited to announce the ICQSR 2025 Best Paper Finalists (listed alphabetically by the submitting author's last name): 

    • Exact Multistage Bayesian Optimization 
      By Kangan Chen and Andi Wang, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA; Siqin Yang and Hao Yan, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University

    • Optimal Maintenance Policy for Multi-Station Manufacturing Systems with Quality-Reliability Chain
      By Kani Fu, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, USA
      Qiuzhuang Sun and Hao Xu, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Florida, USA; Minhee Kim, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, USA

    • A Periodic Fractional Wiener Process for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Photovoltaic Systems
      By Ruixian Li, Department of Data and Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong 
      Yongxiang Li, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Yao Cheng, Department of Data and Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

    • Spatial In-Profile Monitoring via Latent Tensor Gaussian Process with Mixed Effects
      By Peiyao Liu and Chen Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Congratulations to the finalists. 

    We coordinately invite you to attend the Best Paper Competition Session at the ICQSR 2025, where the finalists will present their work and contend for the award. For the detailed schedule of the session, please follow the conference website. 

    https://sites.google.com/view/icqsr2025

    We were thrilled by the many outstanding submissions we received and appreciate everyone who participated. 


    Lulu Kang, PhD
    Associate Professor
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Email: lulukang@umass.edu


    Zhisheng Ye, PhD
    Associate Professor
    Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management
    National University of Singapore
    Email: yez@nus.edu.sg

    Hui Wang, PhD
    Associate Professor
    Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
    Florida A&M University-Florida State Un



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    Lulu Kang
    Associate Professor
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Amherst
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