Professor M Xie has been a Chair Professor at City University of Hong Kong since 2011. Previously, he was a professor at the National University of Singapore. Prof Xie completed both his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Sweden and has been active in research on reliability, quality and industrial engineering for over three decades. He has authored more than 400 journal publications and 10 books, and is listed in the world’s top 2% most cited scientists by Stanford University. Prof Xie has supervised over 70 PhD students who are now working in academia and industry across various continents. For his contributions to software and system reliability, he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006 and to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2022. He currently serves as Vice President for Asia Region at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and chairs the Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society.