Om Prakash YadavOm Prakash Yadav is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) at the North Dakota State University. He has also served as Department chair for 3 years, where he is responsible for teaching, research, and outreach activities for IM Department. He is the founding director of the Center for Quality, Reliability, and Maintainability Engineering (CQRME) located in IME Department at North Dakota State University. The CQRME is sponsored and fully funded by 10 member companies and has undertaken some interesting research projects. His research interests lie in the area of quality and reliability engineering (reliability-based design, robust design, design optimization, and failure analysis), product and operations management (logistics and supply chain, inventory modeling, and manufacturing systems analysis), and quantitative modeling using optimization techniques, statistical modeling, data mining, fuzzy logic and neural network approaches. His diverse educational and academic background combined with industrial experience allows him to undertake challenging and integrative type of research problems. He has been collaborating with researchers across the world and published several high quality research papers resulting through his collaboration with colleagues from other universities and departments. He has extensive experience in failure analysis and reliability analysis of complex mechanical, electrical/electronic, and hybrid systems including complex physical systems. He has developed an active research group with external funding from several sources including National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DoE), NASA, Department of Defense supported Manufacturing Institute (NextFlex), ND State, and industry. Read More Read Less