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Ying-Ju Chen is the
Crown Worldwide Professor of Business and a Chair Professor at HKUST. Prior to
the current position, he was a faculty in the Department of IEOR at UC
Berkeley. He obtained a PhD degree in Operations Management from Stern School
of Business at New York University in 2007, and he also holds master's and
bachelor's degrees of Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.
He is a
recipient of Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence (MBA non-required/MSc,
highest honor at HKUST Business School, 2 winners per year), NYU teaching
excellence award, Second place of INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG)
paper competition, Winner of "Most Influential Service Operations
Paper" in Production and Operations Management, Harold W. Kuhn Award of
Naval Research Logistics, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research
Output Award (Social Science, third prize), Best paper award of CSAMSE (third
prize), the Harold MacDowell Award from Stern School, 6-time Meritorious
Service Awards from Management Science and Manufacturing & Service
Operations Management, and other awards and fellowships during his academic
journey. He is ranked No. 2 among researchers world-wide by weighted corrected
publication rate in Operations Management according to an article in Decision
Sciences (2021).
His editorial
appointments include a department/deputy editor for NRL and Service Science,
and a senior/associate editor for OR, M&SOM, and POM journals. His current
research interests lie in network economics, socially responsible operations,
operations-marketing interface, and supply chain management. His work has
appeared in several leading conferences and journals in the fields of
economics, electrical engineering, information systems, marketing, and
operations research.
Appointment
Crown Worldwide
Professor of Business, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2023
--
Chair Professor,
2022 – present, Lee Heng Fellow, 2024 --
(Professor 2019
– 2022, Associate Professor 2014 – 2019)
- Department of ISOM, School of Business and
Management
- Department of IEDA, School of Engineering
Assistant Professor,
University of California at Berkeley, 2007 -- 2014
- Department of IEOR, College of Engineering
Education
PhD, IOMS-Operations Management Group,
Stern School of Business, New York University, 2007 October.
n Harold MacDowell Award (for
best exemplifying qualities of and dedication to scholarship)
n Stern Award for Teaching
Excellence
M Phil, Stern School of Business, New
York University, 2005 October.
MSEE, Graduate Institute of Communication
Engineering, National Taiwan University
BSEE, Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University
Research Interests
Network
economics, socially responsible operations, operations-marketing interface, and
supply chain management.
Publication
and Working Papers
I have had the privilege of working with and learning from my coauthors on some
of the above projects (a partial list alphabetically): Leon Yang Chu, Mingcherng Deng, Ke-Wei Huang, Costis
Maglaras, Sridhar Seshadri, J. George Shanthikumar, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Stephen Shum, Christopher Tang, Brian Tomlin,
Yimin Wang, Gustavo Vulcano, Wenqiang Xiao, Eitan
Zemel, and Jiawei Zhang. I am always enthusiastic about possible research
collaborations.
Research Grants at the National Level:
[PI: Principal Investigator; PC: Principal Coordinator]
* Large scale group projects
- PC, Hong Kong Research Grants Council -
Collaborative Research Fund. Alleviation of supply shortage and resource
allocation inefficiencies during the pandemic. 06/30/2022 to 06/29/2025.
- PI, NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme
(Management Science). Information-driven supply chain collaboration and service
management in the new retail era. 01/01/2020 to 12/31/2023. [At most 1 proposal funded per year]
* Regular proposals
- PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council - General Research Fund. Promoting technology adoption via new business operations. 01/01/2023 to 12/31/2024.
- PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council - General Research Fund. Ex ante versus ex post network pricing. 01/01/2022 to 12/31/2023.
- PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council -
General Research Fund. Refined pricing and assortment optimization for the
representative consumer model. (Co-I: Guillermo Gallego) 07/01/2021 to 06/30/2024.
- PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council - General Research Fund. Facilitating efficient services for ride sharing via information management. 01/01/2020 to 12/31/2022.
- PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council -
General Research Fund. Synchronizing pricing and replenishment to serve
forward-looking customers with lost sales. 09/01/2018 to 08/31/2021.
- PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council -
General Research Fund. Overcoming product adoption puzzle in developing
economies via menu design. 01/01/2018
to 12/31/2019.
- PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council -
General Research Fund. Fairness and pricing issues for information provision to
improve farmers' welfare in developing economies. 01/01/2016 to 12/31/2018.
- PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council -
General Research Fund. Analytical study of dynamic supply chain network
configurations. (Co-I: Ho-Yin Mak) 10/01/2014
to 09/30/2017.
- PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council -
General Research Fund. Operational challenges for one-way car sharing services.
(Co-I: Ho-Yin Mak) 10/01/2013 to
03/31/2017.
Department/
Deputy Editor:
Naval Research Logistics, Service Science
Senior
Editor/Associate Editor:
Operations Research,
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management,
Naval Research Logistics
Guest
senior editor, Production and
Operations Management, Special issue on innovation and sustainability.
Guest
Associate Editor/Referee for:
Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical
Economics, Information Systems Research, Marketing Science, Mathematics of Operations Research,
Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing &
Service Operations Management, Production
and Operations Management, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Naval Research
Logistics, Operations Research Letters, International Journal of Production
Economics, and Performance Evaluation.
Teaching:
At HKUST:
Demand and
revenue management (postgraduate)
n
Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance, School of Business and
Management
Dynamic
programming under uncertainty (postgraduate)
Simulation for
risk and operations analysis (postgraduate)
n
Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence (2 winners per year),
Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance, School of Business and Management
Logistics management (undergraduate)
Simulation in
business and management (undergraduate)
n Recognition of Excellent
Teaching Performance, School
of Business and Management
Logistics
planning and service management (undergraduate)
Engineering
economics & accounting (undergraduate)
At UC
Berkeley:
Dynamic
programming (graduate)
Service operations management (graduate)
n
Master of Engineering
Course Development Investment Grant, Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
Mechanism design
and auctions (graduate)
Linear
programming (undergraduate)
Production
system analysis (undergraduate)
At NYU Stern:
Decision models
(undergraduate)
n Stern Award for Teaching
Excellence
Students for whom I serve
as the principal dissertation chair/co-chair/primary collaborator:
* Former
At HKUST:
Xingyu Fu (2024; Business School)
Assistant Professor, University of New South Wales (UNSW),
Australia
Yonghui
Chen (2024; Postdoc, PhD Sun Yat-sen University)
Faculty, University of Liverpool, UK
Ailing
Xu (2024; Business School)
Assistant Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Pin
Gao (2021; Engineering School)
Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen
Kanglin Chen (2021; Engineering School)
Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and
Technology, Business School
Xiaoshuai Sophie Fan (2020; Engineering School)
Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and
Technology, Business School
POMS Hong Kong 2019 Best student paper award (Finalist)
Haoyu
Tony Liu (2020; Business School)
Assistant Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Pi-Ying
Nini Yen (2020; Engineering School)
Assistant Professor, Macau University of Science and Technology,
Macau, Business School
Xiaojin Becky Fu (2020; Engineering School)
Postdoc, McGill University and University of Toronto, Canada
Hao
Li (2019; Engineering School)
Postdoc, University of Hong Kong
Shihong
Cloae Xiao (2018; Engineering School)
Assistant Professor, Fudan University, Business School
Distinguished Overseas Young Talents (Mainland)
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA
POMS Hong Kong 2016 Best student paper award (Finalist)
Patrick
Ho Tak Tsang (2017; Engineering School)
Faculty, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Engineering School / City
University of Hong Kong, Business School
At UC
Berkeley:
Qiao-Chu
Tony He (2016; Engineering School)
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
USA, Engineering School
POMS Hong Kong 2014 Best student paper award (First prize)
Chen-Nan
Liao (2015; Engineering School)
Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University, Business School
Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (“優青” Taiwan)
POMS Hong Kong 2014 Best student paper award (Honorable mention)
Ling-Chieh
Kung (2012; Engineering School)
Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, Business School
Harold W. Kuhn Award (NRL best publication)
Wenbo Selina Cai (2012; Engineering School)
Associate Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA,
Engineering School
* Current/Incoming
[Recruitment of PhD students and Postdoctoral
scholars is always ongoing. Come join us!]
https://isom.hkust.edu.hk/student-and-alumni/phd-current-student-profiles/om
https://ieda.ust.hk/eng/student.php?catid=5&sid=17
Huijun Sophia Chen
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship; Redbird Scholarship; Master’s from Columbia
University, USA; Bachelor’s from Fudan University (National
Scholarship)
Zheng
Xie
Redbird Scholarship (highest honor at HKUST); Bachelor's from Sun
Yat-sen University
Qingfa
Zhang
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship; Bachelor's from Peking University
Haoyu
Ma
Bachelor’s from CUHK Shenzhen (distinction)
Yufeng
Cindy Guan
Bachelor’s from Zhejiang University (highest distinction)
Yushu
Zeng
Bachelor’s from University of Science and Technology of China
(highest distinction)
Junxue June Zhang
Master’s from University of Hong Kong (distinction); Bachelor’s
from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA (distinction)
Zihao
Chen
Redbird Scholarship; Master's and Bachelor's from Sun Yat-sen
University (National/ Nat'l Encouragement
Scholarships *3)
Tianzhuang
Xu
PhD offers from UCLA, UMN, NYU (visa issue); Master's and
Bachelor's from SJTU
Tianshi
Wang
Accelerated 3+2 Master's from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
USA (first-class honors at Bachelor's level)
Xiaojie
Jeremy Wang
Bachelor's from HKUST (double first-class honors in CS and IEDA)
Fengxing
Wei
Bachelor's from HKUST (first-class honors)
Xiyuan
Mirana Yu
Master's from HKUST (academic achievement); Bachelor's from CUHK
Shenzhen
Xun
Shan
Master's from UC San Diego, USA (distinction); Bachelor's from
SUFE (Math Experimental Class)
Boer
Ouyang
Bachelor's from SUSTech (highest
distinction)
Yifan
Wu
Bachelor's from SUSTech (National Enc.
Scholarships *3)
Zuzheng Dang
Bachelor’s from Tsinghua Univ
Linqi Zhou
Bachelor’s from Nanjing Univ (Math Specialty “強基” program)
Yuwei
Liu
Bachelor’s from Xi'an Jiaotong
University (distinction)
Jiachen
Xu
Bachelor’s from CUHK Shenzhen (distinction)
Students for whom I serve
as the co-chair/ dissertation committee/ foreign advisor/ letter writer and
others:
At HKUST:
Chang
Dong (2022)
Assistant Professor, Durham University, UK
Zhuodong Tang (2022)
Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong
University; Postdoc, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Wentao Lu (2022)
Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Hailun Zhang (2019)
Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen
Liang
Ding (2019)
Assistant Professor, Fudan University; Postdoc, Texas A&M
University, USA
Yunjie Wang (2017)
Assistant Professor, Renmin University
Rongying Chen (2017)
Assistant Professor, Suzhou University
Tao
Lu (2016)
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, USA/ Rotterdam
School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands
Guangrui Ma (2015)
Assistant Professor, Tianjin University
Zelong Yi (2015)
Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University
At UC
Berkeley:
Long
He (2015)
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tianhu Deng (2013)
Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
Yong
Liang (2013)
Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University
Gemma
Berenguer (2012)
Assistant Professor, Purdue University, USA
Tingting
Cui (2010)
Initial offers: University of Wisconsin at Madison/ Google, USA
Shan
Li (2010)
Assistant professor, CUNY Baruch, USA
Others:
Qiaozhen Guo (2023; PhD Xi'an Jiaotong
University)
Research Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and
Technology
Zheng
Cui (2022; PhD CUHK)
Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University
Wendy
Wenzheng Mao (2020; PhD HKU)
Assistant Professor, Tongji University
Xiangyin
Kong (2020; PhD City University of Hong Kong and Xi'an Jiaotong
University)
Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
Xiaole
Chen (2020; PhD Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Assistant Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University
Xiaojing
Feng (2020; PhD Shanghai Jiaotong University)
Assistant Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and
Economics
Anran
Li (2018; PhD Columbia University)
Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE), UK
Chaocheng Gu (2017; PhD Huazhong University of Science and
Technology)
Postdoc, City University of Hong Kong; Assistant Professor, Jinan
University
Qijun Qiu (2016; PhD University of Hong Kong)
Assistant Professor, Macau University of Science and Technology,
Macau
Zhuo
Feng (2016; PhD Tianjin University)
Assistant Professor, Dalian University of Technology
Yao
Tang (2016; PhD Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Assistant Professor, Zhongnan University
of Economics and Law
Xu
Guan (2013; PhD Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Hui
Xiong (2013; PhD Tsinghua University)
Associate professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Dissertation work won Higher Education Outstanding Scientific
Research Output Award (Social Science, third prize)
Qiankai Qing (2013; PhD Huazhong University of Science
and Technology)
Assistant Professor, Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Jiguang Chen (2013; PhD Fudan University)
Assistant Professor, Shandong University
Pre-doctoral
Advisees
Siqi
He (2024; USTC)
PhD program, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA
Ya-Cheng
Timmy Hsu (2024; HKU)
PhD program, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Xiangyu Jin (2023; SJTU)
PhD program, Anderson School of Management, UCLA, USA
Dayu
Wu (2023; USTC)
PhD program, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison, USA
Tong
Xie (2022; CUHK Shenzhen)
PhD program, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA
Miao
Yu (2017; Nankai University)
PhD program, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, USA
Yu
Cai (2016; HKUST)
PhD program, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, USA