Vasiliy Krivtsov

Vasiliy Krivtsov is an amateur theater actor with over 30 years of experience. Professionally, Vasiliy is a corporate expert and consultant in Reliability Engineering, Risk Analysis and Applied Statistics employed by the Ford Motor Company as a Staff Technical Specialist. He also holds the position of Adjunct Associate Professor of Reliability Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he teaches a graduate course on Advanced Reliability Data Analysis. Krivtsov has earned a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Kharkov Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine and a PhD in Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland, USA. He is the author and co-author of over 50 professional publications, including 2 books on Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis, 9 patented inventions and 6 trade secret inventions on statistical algorithms for Ford. He sits on the editorial board of Elsveir's international journal on Reliability Engineering and System Safety and is a Senior Member of IEEE. Prior to Ford, Krivtsov held the position of Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in Ukraine, and that of Graduate Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Center for Reliability Engineering.