Dr. Feng Hsu
Dr. Feng Hsu is
Lead Engineer, Frontier Space Missions,
NASA GSFC.
Feng is a renowned US expert with over 20 years of experiences in
the field of Risk and Safety assessment and mission assurance
management for complex engineering systems, such as nuclear power plant
system, space launch vehicle systems, solid rocket booster &
interplanetary exploration spacecrafts as well as air or ground
traffic control systems for civil aviation.
Formerly an engineering researcher at world renowned
Brookhaven
National Laboratory (BNL), Dept. of Advanced Technology, he has
worked extensively on reliability, Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)
and management theory and methodology research for nuclear reactor
system and space launch vehicle systems since the 1980s. He then became
Sr. Staff Engineer/Scientist and joined NASA’s SAIC team in the Space
Shuttle and Exploration Analysis Department at
He has been a lead
engineering analyst
and project manager working as technical authority in the
Space Center
on NASA’s key program areas, such as Probabilistic Risk Assessment
(PRA), Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) for the Space Shuttle Program
(SSP), International Space Station (ISS) as well as the Risk-based
design assessment for the new generation space launch & crew
exploration vehicle (CEV/CLV) systems etc.
Feng is now
a leading
NASA engineer working on frontier space missions at NASA GSFC, and he
has over 70 publications, including Journal articles, NUREG/CRs, BNL
and NASA technical reports as documented for US NRC
(Nuclear Regulatory Commission),
US DOE (Department of Energy),
US FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and NASA (National Aeronautics and
Space
Administration) etc.
Besides being referee for several
international
journals, Feng is a member of the technical committee of
IEEE SMC,
co-chair of the technical committee on system safety and security, and
has regularly chaired technical sessions in various professional and
international academic conferences.
His major
professional
strengths, technical capabilities and interest of academic research
include: (1) Advanced methodologies for Risk Assessment and Management
applications for large & complex engineering systems, i.e., nuclear,
space, off-shore oil exploration, chemical and mining industry,
aviation and high speed railroad traffic safety & risk-based regulatory
technologies. (2) Aging & life-extension and degradation modeling for
safety risk and governmental regulatory analysis of industrial
facilities and hardware equipments of any paramount financial and
national importance, using dynamic/living PRA models, system
reliability allocation & optimization techniques and failure data
statistics. (3) Development of innovative techniques & methods for
hazard assessment and risk management for prevention of industrial,
financial and national catastrophes and minimization of consequences in
lieu of occurrences of such severe accidents and natural disasters. (4)
Risk-benefit modeling for strategic planning and decision making of
high-valued national projects (energy, defense, public security,
social-economical and industrial investment etc.) based on
Monte Carlo
simulation, risk based performance monitoring, risk-informed
multi-objective & multi-criteria decision making and cost-benefit
trade-off studies as well as
Markov modeling approaches.
Feng earned
his undergraduate degree in Applied math at
Chunking University in
Sichuan and left China over 20 yeas ago for graduate studies at
MSU in
the USA and earned MS in Operations Research and Statistics, Ph.D. in
Engineering Science. He has won numerous research and service
awards from
BNL,
SAIC and NASA during many years of his outstanding
contribution and accomplishment in many fields. His major professional
and academic honors include:
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