Dr Xintian Liu is the Vice Dean of the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at Shanghai University of Engineering Science, China, and also serves as a member of the Modern Management Branch of the China Society of Automotive Engineering and the Automotive Reliability Professional Committee of Shanghai Society of Automotive Engineering. Currently, he is mainly engaged in research in automotive reliability engineering, fatigue life prediction and evaluation, structural system uncertainty, and functional safety of intelligent vehicle systems. He has published more than 100 papers as the first or corresponding author