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Yingying Yang
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Yingying Yang

PhD Student

PHD Research - Yingying is keen to apply mathematics and optimization methods in real-world problems. She is passionate about solving optimization problems, algorithms and complexity.

Yingying completed her master degree in Applied Mathematics in China. She mainly majored in Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimisation. Her previous research focused on optimising reliability and fault tolerance of interconnect networks. The analysis of the optimal properties of large-scale networks helped engineers to design more reliable networks and to minimise the cost.

Yingying will complete her PhD with Professor Ryan Loxton and Professor Andrew Rohl at Curtin University. She will be focusing on research associated with Theme 3 - Support the Manager.

PHD Research - Optimal Maintenance Scheduling via Mathematical Programming

Yingying is focusing her PhD on developing new algorithms for optimising short- and long-term industrial maintenance schedules and determining maintenance cycle times in an interconnected system. Her work will include overcoming the dimensionality challenges in large-scale industrial optimisation problems.

A large amount of maintenance work must be conducted regularly, which may require the whole plant, or sub-units of the plant, to be taken out of service for overhauling, preventive maintenance, corrective repairs, etc. This shutdown process provides an opportunity for conducting maintenance that cannot be performed while the plant is operating, and it is a crucial maintenance strategy to restore plant processes to an optimal state. Therefore, optimised shutdown maintenance scheduling will offer companies significant efficiency gains.

Yingying will develop mathematical optimization models to minimize the total cost, and maximize synergies and profits in maintenance operations.

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  • Saturday 13 April 2024
    Welcome to the first newsletter for 2024 where we'll cover all of the exciting activities so far in 2024! IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Ziyu Zhao, whose thesis was 'passed subject to minor revision'. Well done Ziyu! Congratulations also to Braden Thorne and Sandy Spiers who both submitted their theses in May...
  • Tuesday 21 November 2023
    This month's newsletter focuses on the activities in November and includes award won by our Research Fellows Eden Li and Sirui Li IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Research Fellow Eden Li on being named a finalist in the 2023 Research and Engagement Awards. These awards recognise the achievements of Curtin researchers across...
  • Friday 30 June 2023
    This newsletter focuses on the activities of the Centre during May and June; a busy time for preparing and participating in the 26th World Mining Congress in Brisbane TEAM NEWS # BHP MECoE and CTMDS researchers from Perth that travelled to the World Mining Congress took the opportunity to catch up in...
  • Wednesday 5 October 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Research Theme 3 - Support the decision maker. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Sandy Spiers on winning first prize for his 3 minute presentation delivered at inaugural Information Resilience PhD School held at the Global Change Institute at the UQ St Lucia Campus. September was a big...
  • Tuesday 30 August 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Translation Theme 4 - Support the Organisation. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Tim French on his promotion to Associate Professor, School of Physics, Maths and Computing, Computer Science and Software Engineering at UWA! Team News # New members joining the Centre in August include: Manuel Cifuentes, the BHP representative...
  • Friday 1 April 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Research Theme 3 - Support the decision maker. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Ryan Loxton on the recently-launched Curtin Centre for Optimisation and Decision Science. This new centre focuses on developing efficient mathematical techniques for the optimisation and control of complex systems. It closely aligned with...
  • Tuesday 11 January 2022
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities Aug - Dec 2021. Team Updates # Changes to the members of the Centre in the second six months of 2021: One new PhD student, Chau Nguyen, joined the Centre in October. Chau will complete his PhD at UWA within Theme 1 supervised by Tim French...
  • Wednesday 6 January 2021
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. Highlights # Research Fellow for Theme 1 Michael Stewart PhD was accepted, congratulations to Dr Michael Stewart. Chief investigator for Theme 1 Dr Wei Lui is now Associate Professor Wei Lui – congratulations Wei.· PhD Candidates Yingying Yang, Tyler Bikaun, and Ryan Leadbetter completed their first candidacy...
  • Wednesday 12 August 2020
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. In this issue we will be focusing on two projects conducted by PhD students while on their industry placement. Highlights # Submission of Masters Theses # Congratulation to Jaymin Moffatt and Toby Griffiths for submitting their Masters of Professional Engineering theses. Thank you to our industry...