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Y. Li, 11) is an Assistant Professor at Ecole Centrale

. Superieure-d-'electricite, . Supelec-), F. Paris, and . Dr, Li completed his PhD research in 2009 at National University of Singapore, and went to the University of Tennessee as a research associate. His research interests include reliability and safety modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, and artificial intelligence. He is the author of more than 20