The International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM) was jointly established by Professor Jie Li and Professor Yan-Gang Zhao with support from Professor Alfredo Ang in 2008 to promote scientific development and innovative application of reliability-based, risk-based, or other uncertainty-informed decision making to address all safety related aspects in the management of engineering systems over their design life. The symposium has since been held in Tongji University, Shanghai (2008, 2010), Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan (2012), National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan (2014), Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (2016), National University of Singapore, Singapore (2018) and Beijing University of Technology, China (2020).