Yanwen Xu
Yanwen.Xu@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-6909
Mailstop: ECW 31
Office: ECSW3.150G
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Education
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023
M.S., Applied Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021
M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
BS., Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 2016
Research Interests
Data analytics, physics-informed machine learning, reliability analysis, predictive modeling and uncertainty quantification, design under uncertainty, and stochastic optimization.
Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books
- Zong, Yuwei, Sobhan Badakhshan, Jie Zhang, and Yanwen Xu. “Trustworthy Uncertainty Quantification via Distributionally-Robust Dual Adaptive Conformal Prediction.” Journal of Mechanical Design (2025): 1-19.
- Xu, Yanwen, Parth Bansal, Pingfeng Wang, and Yumeng Li. “Physics-informed machine learning for system reliability analysis and design with partially observed information.” Reliability Engineering & System Safety 254 (2025): 110598.
- Xu, Yanwen, Hao Wu, Zheng Liu, Pingfeng Wang, and Yumeng Li. “Multi-task learning for design under uncertainty with multi-fidelity partially observed information.” Journal of Mechanical Design 146, no. 8 (2024): 081704.
- Xu, Yanwen, and Pingfeng Wang. “Sequential Sampling-Based Asymptotic Probability Estimation of High-Dimensional Rare Events.” Journal of Mechanical Design 145, no. 10 (2023): 101701.
- Xu, Yanwen, Sara Kohtz, Jessica Boakye, Paolo Gardoni, and Pingfeng Wang. “Physics-informed machine learning for reliability and systems safety applications: State of the art and challenges.” Reliability Engineering & System Safety 230 (2023): 108900.
Major Honors and Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Mechanical Design (2024)
NSF Travel Award for IMECE 2024 (2024)
Sharp Outstanding Graduate Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2022)
First Prize Thomas L. Fagan, Jr., Student Paper Award at Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) (2022)
IISE Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Best Track Paper Award Winner (2020)