PhD Students

 

 

 

 

My happiest moment is at graduation ceremony watching my students receive their terminal degree. The following are PhD Student I have supervised.

 

Prof Xie with his 5 PhD graduates in 2005.

Recent PhD Students and their first job:

  • W. Xie (Ph.D., 1997), Hewlett Packard (S) Pte Ltd; (currently a Head of Credit Collection with Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore)
    Statistical Process Control for High-Quality and Complex Processes (5 journal papers published from the research carried out at the university)
     
  • G. Y. Hong (Ph.D., 1999), Motorola (S) Pte Ltd; (currently a Senior Lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand)
    Software Reliability Analysis and its Applications (6 journal papers) 
     
  • X.S. Lu (Ph.D., 1999), Man-Drapeau Research Pte Ltd; (currently consultant at SPARK Ventures, UK);
    Statistical Control Charts for Automated and High-Quality Manufacturing Processes (7 journal papers) 
     
  • H. Wang (Ph.D., 2001), Productivity and Quality Research Centre; (currently a Business Analyst with First USA Bank, USA)
    Some New Approaches to IT Service Quality and QFD Analysis (5 journal papers)
     
  • X. Y. Tang  (Ph.D., 2001), Standard Chartered Bank; Singapore (Currently with OCBC Bank, Singapore)
    Economic Design of Control Charts for High Quality Processes (5 journal papers)
     
  • B. Yang  (Ph.D., 2002), Singapore Techniologies Aerospace;(now in Chengdu, China, despite of an offer of faculty position at Univ of Auckland)
    Analysis and Applications of NHPP Software Reliability Growth Models (5 journal papers) 
     
  • D.Q. Cai  (Ph.D., 2002); Design Technology Institute, Singapore (currently with GE, Shanghai, China)
    A Study of Statistical Control for Automated Manufacturing Processes (5 journal papers)
     
  • S. L. Ho (Ph.D., 2002), currently a lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic; Singapore
    Neural Network and Times Series Models for Quality and Reliability Data Analysis (7 journal papers)
     
  • B. He (Ph.D., 2004); Sony Display Devices, (currently with Philips, Singapore)
    Modeling and Analysis for Control Chart of Defect Data (3 journal papers)
     
  • Y. S. Dai  (Ph.D., 2004); Assistant professor at IUPUI (currently assistant professor at University of Tennessee - Knoxville), USA
    Reliability Models and Analyses of Computing Systems (7 journal papers)
     
  • P. Ranjan  (Ph.D., 2004); Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
    A Study of Properties and Applications of Control Charts for High Yield Processes (4 journal papers)
     
  • Y. Tang  (Ph.D., 2004); Standard Chartered Bank, (Currently with OCBC Bank, Singapore)
    Extended Weibull Distributions in Reliability Engineering (3 journal papers)
     
  • Y. N. Li  (Ph.D., 2004), Design Technology Institute, Singapore (Currently with Agere Systems, Singapore)
    Quality Measurement in Web-based Information Systems (4 journal papers)
     
  • G.Y. Yang#  (Ph.D., 2005); Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore (Currently with ABN AMRO, Singapore)
     
  • G. Q. Liu#  (Ph.D., 2006); Intel (Shanghai) Ltd, China 
     
  • C. W. Zhang  (Ph.D., 2006); Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (S) Pte Ltd, Singapore
    A Systematic Study on Time Between Events Control Charts (5 journal paper)
     
  • X. Lai  (Ph.D., 2007); (business partner), China 
     Advancement in QFD Optimisation Methods (3 journal papers)
     
  • J.Y. Liu  (Ph.D., 2007); Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
    A Study of Modelling and Monitoring Time-between-events with Control Charts (4 journal papers)
     
  • Q.P. Hu  (Ph.D. 2007); Postdoc at KAIST, Korea (Currently with Chinese Academy of Sciences, China )
         Software Reliability Modelling and Analysis (5 journal papers)
      
  • L. F. Zhang  (Ph.D. thesis under examination); Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
     Linear Regression Parameter Estimation Methods for the Weibull Distribution (3 journal papers)
     
  • Y. P. Wu  (Ph.D. thesis under examination); OCBC Bank, Singapore
     Fault Detection and Correction Modelling of Software Systems (4 journal papers)
     
  • H. Raharjo  (Ph.D. thesis under examination); Chalmers University, Sweden
     Some Advancements of Quality Function Deployment to Deal with Dynamic Market (4 journal papers)
     
  • Q. Long  (Ph.D. thesis under examination);  (not to be disclosed), China
     Computing System Reliability Modelling, Analysis, and Optimization
     
  • H. Jiang  (Ph.D. draft thesis submitted); Prometheus, Singapore


Note: Almost all students (except those marked with #) were under my direct research supervision. The average age of my full-time students when they completed their PhD research in three years and started to serve the society is 26-27. Two students received PhD at age of 23.

Current full-time PhD Students:

  • Y.F. Li (graduated from Wuhan University);
  • Y. Shen (graduated from Univ of Science and Technology of China);
  • H. Y. Zhang (graduated from Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology);
  • C. J. Xiong (graduated from Wuhan University);
  • Y. J. Xie (graduated from Univ of Science and Technology of China);
  • R. Peng (graduated from Univ of Science and Technology of China);
  • J. Wu (graduated from Tsinghua University);
  • X. Li (graduated from Univ of Electronic Science and Technology of China);
  • Z.S. Ye (graduated from Tsinghua University);

To potential PhD applicants: If you are recent graduate from top universities in your country, or have good research experience in statistical reliability and quality, you are welcome to apply to me - but e-mail me at mxie@nus.edu.sg with your resume first.