Tzong-Ru Tsai

About

Dr. Tzong-Ru Tsai has been a professor in the International Master Program in Smart Manufacturing and Applied Information Science (SMAIS) at National Chin-Yi University of Technology (NCUT) in Taichung, Taiwan, since August 1, 2026. Before he moved to NCUT, Dr. Tsai was the Chairman of the Department of Statistics at Tamkang University (TKU) in New Taipei City, Taiwan, from 2004 to 2010. He served as the dean of the College of Business and Management from 2018 to 2022 and the dean of Academic Affairs from 2022 to 2026 at TKU. His main research interests include Quality Control, Reliability Analysis, and Machine Learning. He has served as a consultant with extensive expertise in SPC and DOE for many companies in the past two decades. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. He also serves on the editorial boards of Mathematics and the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering. Dr. Tsai has written more than 120 refereed publications.

Employment

• National Chin-Yi University of Technology Professor
  2026 - Present
• Tamkang University Distinguished Professor
  2023 - 2025
• Tamkang University Dean
  2022 - 2026
• Tamkang University Dean
  2018 - 2022
• Tamkang University Chairman
  2004 - 2010

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

• 集成二分類零膨脹模型之研究與應用 Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  2025 - 2026
• 零膨脹邏輯模型的穩健參數估計及在數據科學中之應用 Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  2023 - 2025
• System Reliability Evaluation in Multicomponent Stress-Strength Model Based on Model Selection Methods National Science and Technology Council
  2021 - 2023
• 一般化輔助資訊監控製程管制圖 Ministry of Science and Technology
  2019 - 2021
• Reliability Analysis Based on Complex Interval-Censored Data under Dual Component Suppliers Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  2017 - 2019

Publications (149)

• Likelihood-based control chart with the EWMA scheme for zero-inflated Poisson models
  Quality Technology & Quantitative Management 2026 DOI: 10.1080/16843703.2026.2705225
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• An Innovation of the Zero-Inflated Binary Classification in Credit Scoring Using Two-Stage Algorithms
  Mathematics 2026 DOI: 10.3390/math14050800
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• The Pearson Residual-Based Control Charts for Monitoring Overdispersed Count Sequences
  QUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL 2026 DOI: 10.1002/QRE.70094
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• Closed-Form Solutions for the Weibull Distribution Parameters and Performance Lifetime Index with Interval-Censored Data
  Mathematics 2025 DOI: 10.3390/math14010098
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• A Hybrid Algorithm with a Data Augmentation Method to Enhance the Performance of the Zero-Inflated Bernoulli Model
  Mathematics 2025 DOI: 10.3390/math13111702
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• Bayesian Estimation of the Stress–Strength Parameter for Bivariate Normal Distribution Under an Updated Type-II Hybrid Censoring
  Mathematics 2025 DOI: 10.3390/math13050792
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• Support Vector Machines and Model Selection for Control Chart Pattern Recognition
  Mathematics 2025 DOI: 10.3390/math13040592
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• An effective non‐restarting control chart based on the joint judgment
  Quality and Reliability Engineering International 2025 DOI: 10.1002/qre.3679
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• Bayesian stress-strength inference for the Moran-Downton bivariate exponential distribution under modified Type-II censoring
  AIMS MATHEMATICS 2025 DOI: 10.3934/MATH.20251271
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• Inference for a general family of exponentiated distributions under ranked set sampling with partially observed complementary competing risks data
  QUALITY TECHNOLOGY AND QUANTITATIVE MANAGEMENT 2025 DOI: 10.1080/16843703.2023.2297126
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• Zero-Inflated Binary Classification Model with Elastic Net Regularization
  Mathematics 2024 DOI: 10.3390/math12192990
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• Predicting Pump Inspection Cycles for Oil Wells Based on Stacking Ensemble Models
  Mathematics 2024 DOI: 10.3390/math12142231
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• Bias-Correction Methods for the Unit Exponential Distribution and Applications
  MATHEMATICS 2024 DOI: 10.3390/MATH12121828
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• Binary Classification with Imbalanced Data
  ENTROPY 2024 DOI: 10.3390/E26010015
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• Reliability Assessment and Remaining Useful Life Prediction Based on the Inverse Gaussian Step-Stress Accelerated Degradation Data
  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY 2024 DOI: 10.1109/TR.2023.3328369
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• The Reliability Inference for Multicomponent Stress-Strength Model under the Burr X Distribution
  APPLIEDMATH 2024 DOI: 10.3390/APPLIEDMATH4010021
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• Estimation of Dependent Competing Risks Model with Baseline Proportional Hazards Models under Minimum Ranked Set Sampling
  Ying Chang Zhou, Liang Wang, Tzong‐Ru Tsai +1 more
  MATHEMATICS 2023 DOI: 10.3390/MATH11061461
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• Stress-Strength Inference on the Multicomponent Model Based on Generalized Exponential Distributions under Type-I Hybrid Censoring
  MATHEMATICS 2023 DOI: 10.3390/MATH11051249
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• The prediction of remaining useful lifetime for the Weibull k-out-of-n load-sharing system
  RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY 2023 DOI: 10.1016/J.RESS.2023.109091
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• A New Process Performance Index for the Weibull Distribution with a Type-I Hybrid Censoring Scheme
  MATHEMATICS 2022 DOI: 10.3390/MATH10214090
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