Zhang Xi is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the College of Engineering, PKU. He serves as the head of the Lab of Data Analytics for Smart Industrial and Service Systems. Zhang Xi is also a director of the Reliability Engineering Committee of the Operations Research Society of China, a director of the Quality and Reliability Management Committee of the Society of Management Science and Engineering of China, and a member of the Industrial Big Data and Intelligent Systems Institution of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.