He received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University in 2002. His research interests include failure time data analysis, system reliability, design of experiments, multivariate statistical process control, time series analysis, and computational Bayesian methods. His research has been supported by NSF, DOE, Arizona Science Foundation, Air Force Research Lab, etc. He has published over 50 journal papers and many more refereed conference papers. He was the recipient of 2008 and 2011 Stan Ofsthum Awards and 2015 William A. Golomski Award. His papers won the Best Reliability Paper Award of Quality Engineering in 2012 and 2013. Rong Pan is a senior member of ASQ and IIE, and a member of SRE, IEEE and INFORMS. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Quality Technology and Quality Engineering..