Referenzen

Wissenschaftliche Publikationen

• Statistical Models for Health Monitoring of Rare Events in Railway Tracks. Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography I. Springer, Switzerland (2025), together with I. Nerlich.
• Comparison of Material Fatigue Testing Strategies regarding Failure-Free Load Level of Steel Specimens using Bootstrapping and Statistical Models, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 253, 2025, 323–335, doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2025.01.095, together with G. Oertelt and K. Boss.
• Effective reliability verification of a technical subsystem through prior information generated by component tests, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 217, 2023, 1178–1187, doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.12.316.
• Foreword to the Special Issue on “Data Science in Process Industries”, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 38(5), 2022, 748–749, doi: 10.1002/asmb.2715, together with M. S. Reis.
• Early life reliability growth testing with non-constant failure intensity, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 180, 2021, 608–617, doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2021.01.283, together with S. P. Capser and G. I. Vignati.
• New model for stress tests without failures. Proceedings for the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) Florida (2017), together with H. Lewitschnig.
• Discussion of ‘Methods for planning repeated measures accelerated degradation tests’. Invited discussion paper, together with E. Stadlober, in Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 2014 (30), p680–685, Wiley, New York.
• Usage Space Analysis for Reliability Testing. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, DOI: 10.1002/qre.1155. Wiley, New York (2010), together with J. Thiele and K. Mautner.
• A modular algorithm for Dynamic Design of Large-Scale Experiments, Journal of the Austrian Statistical Society Nr. 34, 229–244, (2008).
• Sampling and Design of Large-Scale Life Time Experiments. PhD Dissertation, Graz University of Technology, (2007).

Lehraufträge

• Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Managementwissenschaften Master, Wien: Zuverlässigkeitstechnik und -Management (WS 2017/2018, WS 2018/2019, WS 2019/2020, WS 2020/2021, WS 2021/2022, WS 2022/2023, WS 2023/2024, WS 2024/2025, WS 2025/2026)
• Fachhochschule Joanneum, Luftfahrt/Aviation Bachelor, Graz: Statistik und Datenanalyse (SS 2017, SS 2018, SS 2019, SS 2020, SS 2021, SS 2022, SS 2023, SS 2024, SS 2025, SS 2026)
• Fachhochschule Joanneum, Luftfahrt/Aviation Master, Graz: Statistics and Data Analysis (WS 2011/12, WS 2012/13, WS 2013/14, WS 2014/15, SS 2016, SS 2017, SS 2018, SS 2019, SS 2020, SS 2021, SS 2022, SS 2023, SS 2024, SS 2025, SS 2026)
• Fachhochschule Joanneum, Graz: Vorkurs Mathematik (2010)
• Fachhochschule Joanneum, Fahrzeugtechnik, Graz: Mathematik für Ingenieure (SS 2010)
• Fachhochschule Eisenstadt: Angewandte Statistik (SS 2010)
• Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz: Zuverlässigkeitstheorie (WS 2007/08, WS 2009/10)

Vorträge

• Reliability Verification with Economic Constraints. Presentation at the annual spring conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Granada (2026).
• Material Fatigue Testing and Analysis as a Measurement Instrument of the Failure-Free Load Level of Steel Specimens. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Piraeus (2025).
• Statistical Models for Health Monitoring of Railway Track Failures. Research Seminar at the Institute of Applied Statistics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz (2025).
• Comparison of Material Fatigue Testing Strategies regarding Failure-Free Load Level of Steel Specimens using Bootstrapping and Statistical Models. Presentation at ISM 2024, Prague/online (2024).
• Time-to-Failure Models for Health Monitoring of Railway Track Failures. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Leuven (2024).
• Statistical models for health monitoring of rare events in railway tracks. Presentation at the 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, Bari (2024).
• Reliability Growth in the Context of Industry 4.0. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Valencia (2023).
• The Role of Statistical Methods in Problem Solving Processes. Webinar – Statistics and Engineering in the European Context, Department of Statistics Computer Science Applications G. Parenti within the Competence Center ARTES 4.0 Activities, Florence/online (2023).
• Effective reliability verification of a technical subsystem through prior information generated by component tests. Presentation at ISM 2022, Hagenberg (2022).
• Consideration of prior information generated by component tests in the reliability verification of a technical subsystem. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Trondheim (2022).
• Classification of on-road routes for the reliability assessment of drive-assist systems in heavy-duty trucks based on electronic map data. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Valencia/online (2021).
• Models for Reliability Verification. Atelier de Statistique Appliquée, Institut de Statistique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles/online (2021).
• Early Life Reliability Growth Testing with Non-constant Failure Intensity. Presentation at ISM 2020, Hagenberg/online (2020).
• Reliability Verification as integrated part of a product development process. Presentation at StEering “Statistics and Innovation for Industry 4.0”, Florence (2020).
• Reliability Verification of Composed Systems. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Budapest (2019).
• Reliability Verification of Complex Objects. SMSA 2019 Conference, TU Dresden (2019).
• A Model Selection Strategy for Reliability Verification. Österreichische Statistiktage, Linz (2018).
• Hierarchical Models for Reliability Verification. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Nancy (2018).
• Sampling Strategies for the Verification of Reliability Targets. Presentation at a Webinar of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics (2018).
• Risk-Based Sampling for the Verification of Reliability Targets. Presentation at the Colloquium in Honor of Prof. Ernst Stadlober, Graz (2018).
• Reliability Assessment with Failure Free Stress Tests. Presentation at the spring conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Aigen-Schlägl (2017).
• Applicability of Software Reliability Models. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Naples (2017).
• The Effect of Miss-Specified Suspensions in Lifetime Prediction with Heavily Censored Data. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Sheffield (2016).
• Sensitivity and Robustness of Designs for Repeated Measures Accelerated Degradation Tests. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Prag (2015).
• An Application of Zellner’s g Prior to Reliability Growth Models. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Linz (2014).
• Weibull Analysis with Heavily Censored Data. Presentation at the annual conference of ENBIS, the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics, Ankara (2013).
• Reliability Analysis with Warranty Data. Presentation at the annual ENBIS conference, Ljubljana (2012).
• A Consideration of Error Probability in Multilevel Reliability Verification. Österreichische Statistiktage, Graz (2011).
• Identification of Adequate Reliability Targets. Presentation at the annual ENBIS conference, Coimbra (2011).
• Sampling for Verification Experiments. Presentation at the annual ENBIS conference, Antwerp (2010).
• Verifikation der Zuverlässigkeit komplexer technischer Produkte. SimNet Summer School, Graz (2010).
• Simulationsbasierte Planung von Testprogrammen zur Abschätzung der Schwingfestigkeit von Legierungen. SimNet Days, Graz (2010).
• Dynamic Design of Large-Scale System Reliability Experiments. Atelier de Statistique Appliquée, Institut de Statistique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles (2010).
• Usage Space Analysis for Robust Reliability Testing. Presentation at the annual ENBIS conference, Göteborg (2009).
• Konzepte zur Statistischen Analyse Biometrischer Längsschnittdaten. Projekttagung JEKI, Universität Heidelberg (2009).
• Dynamic Design of Validation Experiments. Winner of the Best Poster Award at the ENBIS annual conference Athens (2008).
• A corrected likelihood-based confidence area for Weibull distribution parameters and large-scale lifetime data. Presentation at the annual ENBIS conference, Dortmund (2007).
• Dynamic Design of Large-Scale Lifetime Experiments. Österreichische Statistiktage, Universität Linz (2007).
• Quantification and analysis of the distribution of reliability test durations. Presentation at the annual ENBIS conference, Wroclaw (2006).
• Statistical Optimization of fatigue tests in mechanical component experimentation. Presentation at the annual ENBIS conference, Newcastle (2005).
• Optimal Run Order in Experimental Designs. 1st STAVEX User Meeting, Thun (2004).