Haitao Liao Data-verified

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Professor, John & Mary Lib White Systems Integration Chair

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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39 h-index 241 pubs 6,245 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Haitao Liao is a Professor and the John & Mary Lib White Systems Integration Chair at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His research focuses on reliability engineering, risk assessment, and maintenance optimization for complex systems. Liao has published extensively on topics including remaining useful life prediction, optimal maintenance scheduling, and condition-based maintenance planning, often employing stochastic process models and physics-informed machine learning approaches. His work also addresses risk and resilience in critical infrastructure restoration and the development of advanced models for system degradation and shock processes.

His research group has explored diverse applications, including the development of an aerial image segmentation transformer (AerialFormer) and the degradation modeling of electro-hydrostatic actuator systems. Liao's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 39, with over 245 publications and 6,120 citations, designating him as a highly cited researcher. He actively collaborates with colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Chase Rainwater, Roy McCann, Kelly M. Sullivan, and Heather Nachtmann, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 39
  • Publications: 241
  • Citations: 6,245

Selected Publications

  • SSL-MTab: Self-Supervised Distillation for Missing Data in Tabular Prediction Tasks (2026)
  • A vision-based leakage detection framework for roof systems using attention-enhanced deep neural networks (2026)
  • A Machine Learning Framework for Joint Reliability Improvement and Maintenance of All-Terminal Networks (2026)
  • Network Reliability Enhancement Using Machine Learning and Metaheuristics (2026)
  • Physics-and Image-Informed Reliability Prediction for Pipelines Under Competing Failure Modes (2026)
  • Joint Lot-Sizing and Maintenance in Production Systems with Partial Buffer Consumption (2026)
  • A predictive maintenance framework based on real-time credibility evaluation of remaining useful life prediction results (2025)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • S3Former: A Deep Learning Approach to High Resolution Solar PV Profiling (2025)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Quantitative Maintenance Policy Development Framework for a Fleet of Self‐Service Systems (2025)
    7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Generalized Functional Mixed Models for Accelerated Degradation-Based Reliability Analysis (2024)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Fleet Service Reliability Analysis of Self-Service Systems Subject to Failure-Induced Demand Switching and a Two-Dimensional Inspection and Maintenance Policy (2024)
    12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • AerialFormer: Multi-Resolution Transformer for Aerial Image Segmentation (2024)
    61 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A chance-constrained net revenue model for online dynamic predictive maintenance decision-making (2024)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Optimal resilience-based restoration of a system subject to recurrent dependent hazards (2024)
    14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Statistical Model for Multisource Remote-Sensing Data Streams of Wildfire Aerosol Optical Depth (2024)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex

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