Xiujie Zhao (赵秀杰) is an associate professor with the College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. His research interests include accelerated reliability testing, degradation modeling, maintenance optimization, and design of experiments. He received the B.E. degree in industrial engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2013, the M.S. degree in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2018. He has published over 30 papers in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IISE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Quality Technology, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, among others.