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Mark Kaminsky

Doctor of Sci.

 

Dr. Mark Kaminskiy is a senior research engineer at BMA Engineering, Inc., and the chief statistician at the Center of Technology and Systems Management of the University of Maryland (College Park). He is also an instructor of reliability and risk engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

 

He completed his MS, Nuclear Physics (1971), St. Petersburg Technical University; and Ph.D. in Applied Statistics, St. Petersburg Electro-Technical University (1983).  

 

He held the following positions: Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2000- present; Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Inc., R&D, Corporate Reliability Group, San Diego, CA, 1998-2000; Reliability Analyst, Ford Motor, Dearborn, MI, 1998; Research Associate, Department of Material and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 1993-1998.  He is a researcher and consultant in statistical reliability, life data analysis and risk analysis of engineering systems. Dr. Kaminskiy has an extensive background in parametric and nonparametric distribution estimation, multivariate regression modeling for reliability applications, accelerated life testing, and probabilistic damage modeling.

 

SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE

 

University of Maryland at College Park

  • Developing Statistical Software Tool for Reliability Data Analysis and Risk Projection.  Principal Investigator.  Project performed under contract to Ford Motor Company)

  • Developing Age Exploration Predictive Model and Software Tool for Navy Aircrafts, Based on

  • G-Renewal Process.  Project performed under contract to ManTech International Corporation

  • Assessment of Ship Lifetime Based on Extreme Loads for Ship Structural Design

  • Reliability Analysis and Assessment of Hydropower Equipment (Project performed under contract to Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

  • Repairable System Reliability Analysis Using Multivariate Regression Models for Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process, Classical and Bayesian Approaches (Project performed under contract to Ford Motor Company - Bayesian/ReDCAS Project)

  • Plant Specific Classical and Bayesian PSA for Rovno-1 Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant

  • Accident Sequence Precursor Analysis based on Extreme Value Theory Approach (for Nuclear Power Plant Applications)

Teaching Experience

 

  • ENRE640 - Reliability Data Analysis and Collection

  • ENRE650 - Accelerated Life Testing

  • U.S.Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Safety Assuarance, Office of Defects Investigation, Consultant, 2002

  • Statistical Reliability Analysis of Warranty Data Contributed to November 2002 Recall of 1,500,000 DaimlerChrysler’s Minivans

 

QUALCOMM, Inc., San Diego, CA.

Corporate Reliability Group, Senior Engineer, full time, 1998– 2000

  • Reliability Test Design and Data Analysis

  • Accelerated Life Testing Design of Experiments and Data Analysis

  • Warranty Claims Projections

  • Reliability Estimation and Projection Based on Warranty Data

  • Statistical Quality Control

 

BMA Engineering, Inc., Potomac, MD,

consultant, Co-Principal Investigator. 1994

  • Life Expectancy Assessments of Ship Structures

  • Risk Based Maintenance Management System for Ship Structure

  • Loading Cycles for Fatigue Reliability Analysis of Miter Gates (Project performed under contract to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

 

List of principal publications:

  1. Modarres, M., Kaminskiy, M. and Krivtsov V. Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis: A Practical Guide,2nd Edition, to be published in 2006

  2. Modarres, M., Kaminskiy, M. and Krivtsov V. Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis: A Practical Guide, 1999, Marcel Dekker, Inc.

  3. The book review can be found in Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2002,

  4. American Society for Quality (ASQ) included the book in its Reliability Engineer Certification (CRE) References (2002)

  5. Statistical Analysis of Reliability Data – In Encyclopedia of IEEE, vol. 20, 1999, John Wiley & Sons.

  6. Accelerated Life Testing -- In Statistical Reliability Engineering, 1999, Gnedenko, B.V. and Ushakov, I.  John Wiley & Sons.

  7. Probability Concepts -- In Product Reliability, Maintainability, and  Supportability, 1995 , M. Pecht, Ed., CRC Press.

  8. Statistical Inference Concepts -- In Product Reliability, Maintainability, and  Supportability, 1995 , M. Pecht, Ed., CRC Press.

  9. Practical Reliability Concepts -- In Product Reliability, Maintainability, and  Supportability, 1995 , M. Pecht, Ed., CRC Press.                 

  10. Accelerated Life Tests -- In Handbook of Reliability Engineering, 1994. I.A. Ushakov, Ed., John Wiley

 Selected papers:

 

2005      

  • Assessing the Probability of the Dynamic Capsizing of Vessels (co-author with B. Ayyub, et al.), Journal of Ship Research, SNAME, accepted for publication.

  • A Simple Procedure for Bayesian Estimation of Weibull Distribution, (with Krivtsov, V.) IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2005, accepted for publication in December Issue.

2004      

  • Simple Bounds on Cumulative Intensity Functions of Renewal and G-Renewal Processes with Increasing Failure Rate Underlying Distributions, Risk Analysis: An International Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp 1035-1039

2000      

  • A Monte Carlo Approach to Estimation of G-Renewal Process in Warranty Data Analysis (with V. Krivtsov) Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Bordeaux, France, June 2000, pp.583-586.

  • Generalized Renewal Process as a Model for Statistical Warranty Prediction (with V. Krivtsov) Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, January 2000, pp. 276-279

1998      

  • A Monte Carlo Approach to Repairable System Reliability Analysis (with V. Krivtsov),  - in Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, New York, Springer-Verlag London Ltd, pp. 1063-1068

1997      

  • A Monte Carlo Approach to warranty Repair Predictions (with V. Krivtsov), Proc. 9th SAE Aerospace International Reliability, Maintainability, Supportability and Logistics Conference and Workshop, Dallas, TX, SAE Technical Paper # 972582

  • Validation of Accelerated Test life Data (with V. Krivtsov), Proc. 9th SAE Aerospace International Reliability, Maintainability, Supportability and Logistics Conference and Workshop, Dallas, TX, USA      

  • Loads for the Fatigue Life Assessments of Gates at Navigation Locks (co-author with B. Ayyub), Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE, 3 (2), 68-77

1996           

  • The Accident Sequence Precursor Analysis (with H. Martz and M. Modarres), Nuclear Science and Engineering, 123, 238 – 258

1984       

  • Non-parametric Confidence Estimation of the Quantiles of the Duration of Failure-Free Operation in Classes of Continuous and Aging Distributions.  Engineering Cybernetics, 22 (1) (reviewed in Statistical Science, 1987, Vol. 2, No.4).

 
 

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