IGOR USHAKOV, DrSci, was previously a professor at both
The George Washington University and the University of California,
San Diego; chair of the Department of Large Scale Systems at the
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; and a principal
engineer at Qualcomm. In addition, he is founder of the
International Group on Reliability's Gnedenko Forum and has
authored or edited dozens of books and published more than 300
journal papers on reliability engineering, logistics, and quality
assurance.