Tiejun Cui was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China in 1983. He received a Ph.D. degree in safety technology and engineering from Liaoning Technical University, China in 2015, and received two postdoctoral degrees. His research interests include safety system engineering, system reliability and system fault evolution processes. He is the author of several books and author and co-author of several publications in international journals, including papers that are indexed by SCI and EI.