Nature-Inspired Computing Paradigms in Systems Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety and Cost (RAMS+C) and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Intelligent Data-Centric Systems Series

Mohamed Arezki Mellal. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, M'Hamed Bougara University, Algeria and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Likewise, he was a Visiting Scholar at Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan; Korea Aerospace University, South Korea; and University of Essex, UK. He is a member of the Algerian National Laboratory for Maintenance Education in conjunction with the European Union (Erasmus+). He has also been a committee member for over seventy international conferences. He serves as a regular reviewer for 18 SCI-indexed journals and an editorial board member in seven peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include developing new bio-inspired optimization methods for solving engineering problems of system dependability, manufacturing and energy efficiency.
He is the founder and director of CALCE (Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering) at the University of Maryland, which is funded by over 150 of the world’s leading electronics companies at more than US$6M/year. He is a Professional Engineer, an IEEE Fellow, an ASME Fellow, an SAE Fellow, and an IMAPS Fellow. He is currently serving as editor-in-chief of Circuit World. He served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Access for 6 years, as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Reliability for 9 years, and as editor-in-chief of Microelectronics Reliability for 16 years. He has also served on three U.S. National Academy of Science studies, two U.S. Congressional investigations in automotive safety, and as an expert to the U.S. FDA. He is also a Chair Professor. He consults for 22 major international electronics companies, providing expertise in strategic planning, design, test, prognostics, IP and risk assessment of electronic products and systems.