Young Chiang earned his PhD degree in 1983 (Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin-Madison). He has 30 years of engineering and management experiences with product R&D, CAE, design, reliability, quality, manufacturing, and program management in the US automotive industry, including Uniroyal (Michelin), Cummins, Magna, Edscha, Danaher, CTS, Coda, and Chrysler. Dr. Chiang was a member of ASME and SAE. After retiring from the US automotive industry, he worked as the vice director of Weichai Power Research Center (Shandong, China) and founded Weichai Institute of Reliability Research. He was also named the vice director of China Key State Laboratory of Engine Reliability and the executive commissioner on Reliability Committee, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.