Min OUYANG received his B.S. degree in Automation from the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China in 2005, and his Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2009, followed by postdoctoral research in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, Texas, USA from 2009 to 2012.
Currently, he is a professor in the department of systems science and engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
His research interests include safety and resilience of infrastructure systems, and simulation and modeling of interdependent infrastructure systems.
Dr. Ouyang was selected to the program of “ChuTian Scholar” in Hubei Province in 2012 and is the principal investigator of four projects respectively granted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. He has published more than 25 SCI-indexed peer-reviewed journal papers, which are widely cited by researchers in the fields of safety engineering, risk analysis and management, reliability and resilience engineering, infrastructure engineering. His review paper on modeling and simulation of interdependent infrastructures systems published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety is an ESI highly cited paper and also a hot paper in ISI web of science. Dr. Ouyang was among the “Most Cited Chinese Researchers in 2014” and “Most Cited Chinese Researchers in 2015”(Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)
Academic Degrees
Sept. 2005-Oct. 2009 Huazhong University of Science and Technology Ph.D. in Systems Engineering
Sept. 2001-July 2005 Wuhan University of Science and Technology B.S. in Automation
Professional Experience
-present: Professor, Department of Systems Science and Engineering, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Key Lab. for Image Processing and Intelligent Control, HUST.
Nov. 2013- : Associate Professor, Department of Systems Science and Engineering, School of Automation, Key Lab. for Image Processing and Intelligent Control, HUST.
Feb. 2012-Nov. 2013: Lecturer, Department of Systems Science and Engineering, School of Automation, Key Lab. for Image Processing and Intelligent Control, HUST.
Nov. 2009-Feb. 2012: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, USA.
Selected Publications
1. Ouyang Min, Pan Zhezhe., Hong Liu and He Yue. Vulnerability analysis of complementary transportation systems with applications to railway and airline systems in China. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 2015, 142: 248-257.
2. Ouyang Min and Wang Zhenghua. Resilience assessment of interdependent infrastructure systems: With a focus on joint restoration modeling and analysis, Reliability engineering & system safety, special issue on resilience engineering. 2015, 141: 74-82.
3. Hong Liu, Ouyang Min(*), Peeta Srinivas, He Xiaozheng, Yan Yongze. Vulnerability assessment and mitigation for the Chinese railway system under floods. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 2015, 137, 58-68.
4. Ouyang Min, Duenas-Osorio Leonardo. Multi-dimensional hurricane resilience assessment of electric power systems. Structural Safety 2014, 48: 15-24.
5. Ouyang Min, Zhao Lijing, Pan Zhezhe, Hong Liu. Comparisons of complex network based models and direct current power flow model to analyze power grid vulnerability under intentional attacks. Physica A 2014, 403: 45-53.
6. Ouyang Min, Yang Kun. Does topological information matter for power grid vulnerability? Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 2014, 24, 043121.
7. Ouyang Min, Zhao Lijing. Do topological models contribute to decision making on post-disaster electric power system restoration. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 2014, 24, 043131.
8. Ouyang Min, Pan Zhezhe, Hong Liu, Zhao Linjing. Correlation analysis of different vulnerability metrics on power grids. Physica A 2014, 96: 204-211.
9. Ouyang Min, Zhao Lijing, Hong Liu, Pan Zhezhe. Comparisons of complex network based models and real train flow model to analyze Chinese railway vulnerability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 2014, 123: 38-46.
10. Ouyang Min. Review on modeling and simulation of interdependent critical infrastructure systems. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 2014, 121: 43-60.
11. Ouyang Min. Comparisons of purely topological model, betweenness based model and direct current power flow model to analyze power grid vulnerability. Chaos. 2013, 23: 023114.
12. Wang Shuliang., Hong Liu , Ouyang Min, Zhang Jianhua and Chen Xueguang. Vulnerability analysis of interdependent infrastructure systems under edge attack strategies. Safety Science. 2013, 51(1): 328-337 .
13. Ouyang Min and Dueñas-Osorio Leonardo. A three-stage resilience analysis framework for urban infrastructure systems. Structural safety. 2012, 36, 23-31.
14. Ouyang Min and Dueñas-Osorio Leonardo. Time-dependent resilience assessment and improvement of urban infrastructure systems. Chaos.2012, 22, 033122 .
15. Ouyang Min and Dueñas-Osorio Leonardo. An approach to design interface topologies across interdependent urban infrastructure systems. Reliability engineering and system safety. 2011, 96(1): 1462-1473.
16. Ouyang Min and Dueñas-Osorio Leonardo. An efficient approach to compute generalized interdependent effects between infrastructure systems. Journal of computing in civil engineering. 2011, 25(5): 394-406 .
17. Ouyang Min, Yu Minghui., Hong Liu, Huang Xiangzhao, Fei Qi. STAMP-based analysis on the railway accident and accident spreading: taking the China-Jiaoji railway accident for example. Safety Science. 2010, 48(5): 544-555.
18. Ouyang M, Hong L., Mao Z.J., Yu M.H., Fei Q. A Methodological approach to Analyze Vulnerability of Interdependent Infrastructures. Simulation practice and theory. 2009, 17(5): 817-828.
19. Ouyang M. , Fei Q., Yu M.H., Wang G.X., Luan E.J. Effects of Redundant Systems on Controlling the Disaster Spreading in Networks. Simulation practice and theory. 2009, 17(2): 390-397.
20. Ouyang M., Yu M.H., Huang X.Z. and Luan E.J. Emergency response to disaster-struck scale-free network with redundant systems. Physica A. 2008, 387(18): 4683-4691.
Awards and Honors
1 “Most Cited Chinese Researchers in 2015” (Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)
2 “Young Scholar of Distinction of HUST” Award, 2015
3 “Most Cited Chinese Researchers in 2014” (Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)
4 Second Prize of Teaching Competition of Young Teachers of HUST in 2013.
5 “ChuTian Scholar” Program, Hubei Province, China, 2012
Courses Taught
For Undergraduates:
Information Systems Engineering
Network-based Modeling and Analysis
Project
Current Research Projects：
l Jan. 2016-Dec.2019: National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant NO. 61572212 ): “Vulnerability Study on Complementary Transportation Infrastructure Systems and its Applications”.
Finished Research Projects:
l Jan. 2013-Dec.2015: National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant NO. 51208223 ): “Resilience Assessment of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems”.
2 Jan. 2014-Dec. 2015: Natural Science and Foundation of Hubei Province (Grant NO. 2014CFB238 ): “Restoration Sequence Optimization of Post-disaster Interdependent Infrastructure Systems”.
3 Jan. 2014-Dec. 2015: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2014QN166): “Joint Restoration Research of Post-disaster Interdependent Infrastructure Systems”
4 Jan. 2012-Dec. 2013: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant NO. 2012QN088): “Time-dependent Resilience Analysis of Power Grids”
