Naval Floor Warfare Heart (NSWC) Corona Division introduced its inaugural Michael J. Yeh award to a distinguished scientist in Norco, California, April 4.
Scientist Dr. Benny Cheng acquired the award in recognition of his decade of service working in reliability engineering, which has helped enhance fleet readiness and develop revolutionary capabilities for the Navy.
“The Michael J. Yeh Award acknowledges workers who’ve made vital scientific, technical, engineering or mathematical contributions to encourage and advance NSWC Corona innovation,” mentioned Technical Director Dianne Costlow. “Dr. Cheng’s management enhances quite a few technical areas which have improved fleet readiness, superior our mission of impartial evaluation, and offered technological improvements to guard and advance the Navy’s evaluation capabilities.”
Cheng has served because the lead statistician and senior reliability scientist for weapons readiness on the command since 2012. In the middle of his duties, he led a workforce within the growth and implementation of floor missile and air weapons techniques reliability fashions, in addition to up-and-coming packages such because the Standard Immediate Strike (CPS) hypersonic weapon system. He additionally helped develop a first-of-its-kind Software program Reliability Program Plan, which implements leading edge software program reliability modeling and prediction methods to find out missile system well being and reliability.
Cheng made technical contributions to a wide selection of enterprise traces and technical efforts throughout NSWC Corona, to incorporate materials readiness, software program reliability, cyber modeling and vitality forecasting and evaluation. He has quite a few publications and patents in readiness and reliability, and he received the 2023 Greatest Paper of the Symposium Award on the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium for his 12-page article detailing an revolutionary technique for reliability evaluation of weapon techniques utilizing machine studying and Bayesian statistics.
“His work supplies the accuracy and transparency for the supply of Navy floor missiles within the fleet and creates a considerable value financial savings to the person missile packages,” Costlow mentioned. “Dr. Cheng’s teamwork and technical excellence hold NSWC Corona’s missile reliability evaluation on the reducing fringe of reliability modeling for techniques utilizing the most recent methods in synthetic intelligence, machine studying and neural networks.”
Cheng additionally developed a quantum resistant system and technique for lattice-based cryptography. This innovation has the potential to guard the Navy’s encrypted communications in varied packages towards future threats, he mentioned.
“I’ve had a ardour for statistics and arithmetic since I used to be a child,” Cheng mentioned. “I take lots of pleasure in with the ability to showcase my expertise and assist remedy Navy issues. This area has lots of robust however crucial work, and I’m honored to have the ability to make such a huge impact for the warfighter.”
Cheng added his inspirations embrace the legendary Archimedes, who defended town of Syracuse from Roman invasion, and Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte on his expedition to Egypt and gave the French military recommendation on engineering and diplomatic undertakings.
“I’m proud that my work means one thing, and I hope I can proceed making extra significant contributions to our nation and our nationwide protection,” he mentioned.
In line with Commanding Officer Capt. Michael Aiena, the award was named in honor of the late Michael J. Yeh, a NSWC Corona efficiency evaluation flight analyst and innovator who was passionate in growing revolutionary technical options for the Navy.
“The award recipients embody his spirit, teamwork and imaginative and prescient, which permits NSWC Corona to proceed these crucial technical developments for the warfighter, the Navy and the nation,” he mentioned.
NSWC Corona Division has offered evaluation and evaluation for the Navy since 1964. With expertise in gauging the Navy’s warfighting functionality, NSWC Corona is a frontrunner in NAVSEA knowledge analytics. Corona makes use of networked knowledge environments, knowledge and visualization, and measurement expertise to bridge the Navy’s knowledge silos, enabling knowledgeable decision-making for the warfighter. Anchor to the Inland Empire Tech Bridge, NSWC Corona is positioned in Norco, California, with detachments in Fallbrook and Seal Seaside and personnel in 14 extra places.
