Vasiliy Krivtsov

Vasiliy Krivtsov is the Director of Reliability Analytics at the Ford Motor Company and a Henry Ford Technical Fellow. He also holds the position of Adjunct Professor of Reliability Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he teaches a graduate course on Advanced Reliability Data Analysis and coordinates students' research projects. Krivtsov has earned a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine and a PhD in Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland, USA. He is the author and co-author of over 90 professional publications, including 2 books on Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis, 10 patented inventions and 7 internal (trade secret) inventions on statistical algorithms for Ford. He is a Vice Chair of the International Reliability Symposium (RAMS®) Tutorials Committee and a Senior Member of IEEE. Prior to Ford, Krivtsov held the position of Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in Ukraine, and that of Graduate Res