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DEPARTMENT OF
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT As we share with delight HKUST’s 20th Anniversary
celebra-tions, IELM can also celebrate a significant year on its own account. Through the terrific efforts of our academics and students, the Department has enjoyed a remarkably successful 12 months. Our professors have been elected to prestigious academic societies, our doctoral students have received Best Student Paper Awards at top conferences and competitions, and our undergraduates have won honors and awards in a number of contests.
In just two decades, HKUST has built a worldwide reputation for the quality of its research and IELM researchers thrive in the cutting-edge environment of frontier studies. Always eager to exchange views with other scholars globally and to bring together leading researchers, we successfully organized the Second POMS-HK International Conference and the 1st Forum for the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China in January. In addition, we took part in the IIE Asian Conference 2011 in June.
Through these different gatherings, we seized the opportunity to establish close relationships with scholars and experts in differ-ent locations and to share our research insights. IELM research students have also been able to gain additional perspectives and explore different ideas through communication with research-ers from outside Hong Kong.
To enhance the learning experience of our undergraduates, we have continued to offer diversified activities and experiences. Each year, we invite alumni and mentors to share their experi-ence with students at our Alumni Dinner and Mentorship Dinner. Such occasions help students to prepare for the future and to gain a better understanding of how industry works and the career opportunities that await, adding to the knowledge they gain in the lecture theater.
We plan to keep building on our stimulating research and learn-ing environments for faculty members and students and look forward to taking the Department to the next level of achieve-ment in the future.
Message from
the Department Head
The 2nd Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)-Hong Kong International Conference, jointly organized by the IELM Department, HKUST Logistics & Supply Chain Management Institute and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) - Hong Kong Chapter, brought together practitioners and academics to share their knowledge, experience and insights on the conference’ s theme, “POM in the Economic Recovery”. Discussions focused on production and operations management issues in the face of the changing economy, with experts offering perspectives on the design, analysis, planning, implementation, and management of production and service systems and their impact.
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Professor Mitchell Tseng, Chair Professor, h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d A s s o c i a t e Vice-President for Research and Innovation at HKUST.
Professor Jeff Hong has become Visiting Senior Financial Economist at the Shanghai Stock Exchange where he will conduct re s e a rc h o n r i s k i d e n t i f i c a t i o n a n d management.
Professor Richard So has been invited to become Editor of the Human Factors Area of Displays, an international journal focusing on research related to vision and displays. The journal has been established for 33 years.
2nd POMS-HK International Conference
6 January 2011
With Asia now the largest manufacturing center in t h e w o r l d , t h e r e i s a demand for a broad range of industrial engineering t e c h n i q u e s , o p e n i n g u p f r e s h h o r i z o n s f o r industrial engineers in the
region. Emerging fields, such as the environmental industry, a r e a l s o b r i n g s n e w c h a l l e n g e s a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s . Recognizing the rising importance of Asia, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the world’ s largest professional society in the field, held its first Asian regional conference in
Shanghai in June. The conference was jointly organized by Shanghai Jiaotong University and HKUST. The conference brought together scholars and industrial experts to exchange views on industrial engineering research and applications in Asia in the new era.
IIE Asian Conference 2011
10 June 2011
The IELM Department successfully hosted the 1st Forum for the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China (CIEDHC) at HKUST.
1st Forum for the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China
8 January 2011
Quality Management Project Award
IELM undergraduates Luo Sihua, Pang Yik Hang and He Zhiyi received the second runner-up award in the Hong Kong Society for Quality student project competition.
Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal
Ivan So Yik Ching received the Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Service to the Student Body of HKUST. The annual award is presented to the student who best exemplifies the qualities of caring, constructive and dedicated leadership. In 2009-10, Ivan served as Acting President and Internal Vice-President of the Students’ Union when the President stepped down for personal reasons shortly after being elected.I v a n d e v o t e d g r e a t e f f o r t s t o r e p r e s e n t i n g s t u d e n t s ’ interests, including being elected to the University Council as the first student member. He sought to enhance the caring culture on campus through a campus-wide charity c o n c e r t , w i t h f u n d s d o n a t e d t o S o w e r s A c t i o n f o r re-building schools in Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake. He also widened HKUST’ s network with student groups o u t s i d e H o n g K o n g b y o r g a n i z i n g v i s i t s t o M a i n l a n d universities and receiving counterparts from Singapore and Malaysia.
Early Research Award
IELM student Yang Yang was named First Runner-up in the Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award for the project “The Double Effects of Customer Financing on Operations Planning”, supervised by Prof Xiangtong Qi. The award was established in 2009 to honor o u t s t a n d i n g p e r f o r m e r s i n H K U S T ’ s U n d e r g r a d u a t e Research Opportunity Program and to encourage more student participation in the signature program which allows undergraduates to gain early research experience. Six students out of 250 across HKUST were selected for awards, which were presented in May 2010.
Honors and Awards
Students
International Academy
for
Quality Academician
Professor Fugee Tsung, Head of IELM, has been elected an Academician of the International Academy for Quality. The academy is the most prestigious international organization i n t h e f i e l d o f q u a l i t y. M e m b e r s a r e p e e r- n o m i n a t e d i n d i v i d u a l s i d e n t i f i e d a s g l o b a l t h o u g h t l e a d e r s i n quality-related issues. Prof Tsung has a strong research record in quality control and improvement of complex systems in both manufacturing and service sectors. He is the second International Academy for Quality academician in Hong Kong and one of only six academicians in Greater China.
Institute of Ergonomics
and
Human Factors Fellow
Professor Richard So has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. The Institute, founded in 1949, is the oldest professional society in ergonomics. Its publications, Ergonomics and Applied
Ergonomics are the most recognized journals in the field.
IIE Honor for Undergraduate
Undergraduate Ester Wang Dongyang’ s paper on “Modeling and Forecasting Pandemic Influenza” for Hong Kong was s e l e c t e d a s a f i n a l i s t i n t h e 2 0 1 1 I I E U n d e r g r a d u a t e Students Technical Paper Competition. In May, Ester gave a presentation at the IIE Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada.
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Forthcoming
The Second POMS-HK International Conference, jointly organized by the IELM Department, HKUST Logistics & Supply Chain Management Institute and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) - Hong Kong Chapter, will be held on January 6-7, 2011. The theme is “POM in the Economic Recovery”. The conference creates a forum for the discussion of production and operations management issues in the face of the changing economy. Practitioners and academics are invited to share their knowledge, experience, and insights on the design, analysis, planning, implementation, and management of production and service systems and their impact.
Events
ostgraduates in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management (IELM) have h a d a f r u i t f u l y e a r i n s e c u r i n g i n t e r n a t i o n a l recognition for their research, with a clutch of well-deserved honors confirming their achievements and the world-class status of HKUST.
In July 2010, PhD candidate Jian Li received the First Prize in the IBM Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 Institute for Opera-tions Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Interna-tional Conference on Service Science in Taipei. INFORMS is the world’s largest professional society in operation research and management science. The award recognizes excellence in theory, methodologies and applications in Service Science, Engineering and Practice. Li gained the accolade with his paper on “Directional Monitoring Schemes for Multivariate Categorical Processes”. The paper was co-authored by Professor Fugee Tsung, Head of the IELM Department, and Changliang Zou.
Li went on to receive a Best Student Paper Finalist Award in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability Section of the INFORMS Annual Conference, held in Austin, US in November 2010. The conference, which gathers together leading international scholars to exchange their latest research results, saw 5,000 researchers attend and nearly 100 sessions take place. Li’s paper focused on “Multivariate Categorical Charting Techniques via Log-Linear Models” and was also co-authored by Professor Tsung and Zou.
In the first half of 2011, four more IELM PhD postgraduates received awards. In January 2011, Liang Lu, supervised by Profes-sor Xiangtong Qi, received first prize in the Best Student Paper Competition at the Second POMS-HK International Conference, organized by the Production and Operations Management Society -
Hong Kong Chapter. His paper looked at “Cooperation in Recycling with Economy of Scale and Capacity Limit”.
Cuiting Guo, supervised by Professor Richard So, received the Best Short Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Virtual Reality 2011 Conference in Singapore in March. The gathering is the premier international event and exhibition on virtual reality. It focuses on recent research and development in virtual environments, augmented reality, and 3D user interfaces.
In April, Daniel Mo Yiu-wing received a Sir Edward Youde Memo-rial Fellowship 2010/2011. These highly competitive honors recognize the efforts of an outstanding postgraduate student with a proven record of academic excellence. Daniel also received a Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship in 2004 during his master’s degree study. His PhD supervisors are Professor Raymond Cheung and Professor Mitchell Tseng.
In addition, Hui Cheng, supervised by Professor Xiangtong Qi, won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management. His paper explored “The 3PL’s Optimal Transportation Pricing Problem in Dynamic Lot Sizing Models”. The conference was held in Tianjin in June. It is IELM’s goal that our students contribute to society and strive for greater achievements with each year that goes by, and to train outstanding performers who will be of great benefit to the develop-ment of science and technology in the future. Our doctoral students are now taking that message around the world with their high-flying research.
If you would like to join our dynamic researchers, visit http://www1.ielm.ust.hk/ for further details of our work.
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Professor Fugee Tsung
Professor and Head IELM Department
Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal
Ivan So Yik Ching received the Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Service to the Student Body of HKUST. The annual award is presented to the student who best exemplifies the qualities of caring, constructive and dedicated leadership. In 2009-10, Ivan served as Acting President and Internal Vice-President of the Students’ Union when the President stepped down for personal reasons shortly after being elected.
Ivan devoted great efforts to representing students’ interests, including being elected to the University Council as the first student member. He sought to enhance the caring culture on campus through a campus-wide charity concert, with funds donated to Sowers
The exciting research being carried out by the Department’s doctoral students is drawing the world’s attention with a host of prestigious awards over the past year
Postgraduates on
I S S U E N o . 1 3 DEPARTMENT OF
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
ostgraduates in the Department of Industrial Engineer-ing and Logistics Management (IELM) have had a fruitful year in securing international recognition for their research, with a clutch of well-deserved honors confirming their achievements and the world-class status of HKUST.
In July 2010, PhD candidate Jian Li received the First Prize in the IBM Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 Institute for Operations Research a n d t h e M a n a g e m e n t S c i e n c e s (INFORMS) International Conference on Service Science in Taipei. INFORMS is the world’ s largest professional soci-ety in operation research and manage-ment science. The award recognizes excellence in theory, methodologies and applications in Service Science, Engineering and Practice. Li gained the accolade with his paper on “Directional Monitoring Schemes for Multivariate Categorical Processes”. The paper was co-authored by Professor Fugee Tsung, Head of the IELM Department, and Changliang Zou. Li went on to receive a Best Student Paper Finalist Award in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability Section of the INFORMS Annual Conference, held in Austin, US in November 2010. The confer-ence, which gathers together leading international scholars to exchange their latest research results, saw 5,000 researchers attend and nearly 100 sessions take place. Li’ s paper focused on “Multivariate Categorical Charting Techniques via Log-Linear Models” and was also co-authored by Professor Tsung and Zou. In the first half of 2011, four more IELM PhD postgraduates received awards. In January 2011, Liang Lu, supervised by Profes-sor Xiangtong Qi, received first prize in the Best Student Paper Competition at the Second POMS-HK International Conference, organized by the Production and Operations Management Society - Hong Kong Chapter. His paper looked at “Cooperation in Recycling
with Economy of Scale and Capacity Limit”.
Cuiting Guo, supervised by Professor Richard So, received the Best Short Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Virtual Reality 2011 Conference in Singapore in March. The gathering is the premier international event and exhibition on virtual reality. It focuses on recent research and development in virtual environments, augmented reality, and 3D user interfaces.
In April, Daniel Mo Yiu-wing received a Sir Edward Youde Memo-rial Fellowship 2010/2011. These highly competitive honors rec-ognize the efforts of an outstanding postgraduate student with a proven record of academic excellence. Daniel also received a Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship in 2004 during his master’ s degree study. His PhD supervisors are Professor Raymond Cheung and Professor Mitchell Tseng.
In addition, Hui Cheng, supervised by Professor Xiangtong Qi, won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International
Conference on Service Systems and Service Management. His paper explored “The 3PL’ s Opti-mal Transportation Pricing Problem in Dynamic Lot Sizing Models”. The conference was held in Tianjin in June.
It is IELM’s goal that our students contribute to society and strive for greater achievements with each year that goes by, and to train outstanding performers who will be of great benefit to the devel-opment of science and technology in the future. Our doctoral stu-dents are now taking that message around the world with their high-flying research.
If you would like to join our dynamic researchers, visit http://www1.ielm.ust.hk/ for further details of our work.
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Over 160 mentors and student mentees enjoyed an informal get-together at the IELM Mentorship Dinner in November. The mentorship program provides a great platform for s t u d e n t s t o g a i n i n s i g h t i n t o t h e w o r l d o f i n d u s t r i a l engineering. To help the long-term development of students’ careers, the program offers a channel for students to ask the
advice of those already in the business, broadening students’ vision and building a supportive relationship between mentors and mentees. By taking part in the program, mentees can also gain a competitive edge, expand their networks, and build social skills to boost their career potential.
IELM Mentorship Dinner
3 Nov 2010
P r o f e s s o r C h u n g - Ye e L e e, C h a i r Professor, has had a busy and rewarding twelve months, with invitations to give k e y n o t e s p e e c h e s a t i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o n f e re n c e s a n d re c o g n i t i o n o f h i s significant research record and innovative approach with funding awards for projects.
In November 2010, Professor Lee delivered a keynote speech on “Ocean Container Transport: Making Global Supply Chain Management Effective” at the INFORMS Annual Conference in the US. Professor Lee also gave a keynote speech at the International Symposium on Scheduling in Osaka, Japan in July 2011. His presentation focused on the “Current Trend of Research in Scheduling: Challenges and Opportunities”. The symposium helped international researchers explore the importance of strategic scheduling as a key technology for industries and increasingly for the service sector as well. Regarding research funding, Professor Lee and Professor Ajay Joneja were awarded a research grant from the I n n o v a t i o n a n d Te c h n o l o g y F u n d f o r t h e i r p ro j e c t “Integrated Decision Support System for Dynamic Vehicle-Dispatching and Scheduling with Real-time Information under Operation Uncertainty”. The project seeks to develop an integrated information technology platform for passenger transport with real-time operations and information exchange to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency.
The study “Transforming Hong Kong’ s Ocean Container Transport Logistics Network”, led by Professor Lee, was one of only six projects out of 89 proposals to be supported in the first round of the Research Grants Council’ s Theme-based Research Scheme. The project received funding of HK$13,292,000. Results were announced in July 2011.
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DEPARTMENT OF
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT As we share with delight HKUST’s 20th Anniversary
celebra-tions, IELM can also celebrate a significant year on its own account. Through the terrific efforts of our academics and students, the Department has enjoyed a remarkably successful 12 months. Our professors have been elected to prestigious academic societies, our doctoral students have received Best Student Paper Awards at top conferences and competitions, and our undergraduates have won honors and awards in a number of contests.
In just two decades, HKUST has built a worldwide reputation for the quality of its research and IELM researchers thrive in the cutting-edge environment of frontier studies. Always eager to exchange views with other scholars globally and to bring together leading researchers, we successfully organized the Second POMS-HK International Conference and the 1st Forum for the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China in January. In addition, we took part in the IIE Asian Conference 2011 in June.
Through these different gatherings, we seized the opportunity to establish close relationships with scholars and experts in differ-ent locations and to share our research insights. IELM research students have also been able to gain additional perspectives and explore different ideas through communication with research-ers from outside Hong Kong.
To enhance the learning experience of our undergraduates, we have continued to offer diversified activities and experiences. Each year, we invite alumni and mentors to share their experi-ence with students at our Alumni Dinner and Mentorship Dinner. Such occasions help students to prepare for the future and to gain a better understanding of how industry works and the career opportunities that await, adding to the knowledge they gain in the lecture theater.
We plan to keep building on our stimulating research and learn-ing environments for faculty members and students and look forward to taking the Department to the next level of achieve-ment in the future.
Message from
the Department Head
The 2nd Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)-Hong Kong International Conference, jointly organized by the IELM Department, HKUST Logistics & Supply Chain Management Institute and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) - Hong Kong Chapter, brought together practitioners and academics to share their knowledge, experience and insights on the conference’ s theme, “POM in the Economic Recovery”. Discussions focused on production and operations management issues in the face of the changing economy, with experts offering perspectives on the design, analysis, planning, implementation, and management of production and service systems and their impact.
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Professor Mitchell Tseng, Chair Professor, h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d A s s o c i a t e Vice-President for Research and Innovation at HKUST.
Professor Jeff Hong has become Visiting Senior Financial Economist at the Shanghai Stock Exchange where he will conduct re s e a rc h o n r i s k i d e n t i f i c a t i o n a n d management.
Professor Richard So has been invited to become Editor of the Human Factors Area of Displays, an international journal focusing on research related to vision and displays. The journal has been established for 33 years.
2nd POMS-HK International Conference
6 January 2011
With Asia now the largest manufacturing center in t h e w o r l d , t h e r e i s a demand for a broad range of industrial engineering t e c h n i q u e s , o p e n i n g u p f r e s h h o r i z o n s f o r industrial engineers in the
region. Emerging fields, such as the environmental industry, a r e a l s o b r i n g s n e w c h a l l e n g e s a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s . Recognizing the rising importance of Asia, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the world’ s largest professional society in the field, held its first Asian regional conference in
Shanghai in June. The conference was jointly organized by Shanghai Jiaotong University and HKUST. The conference brought together scholars and industrial experts to exchange views on industrial engineering research and applications in Asia in the new era.
IIE Asian Conference 2011
10 June 2011
The IELM Department successfully hosted the 1st Forum for the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China (CIEDHC) at HKUST.
1st Forum for the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China
8 January 2011
Quality Management Project Award
IELM undergraduates Luo Sihua, Pang Yik Hang and He Zhiyi received the second runner-up award in the Hong Kong Society for Quality student project competition.
Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal
Ivan So Yik Ching received the Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Service to the Student Body of HKUST. The annual award is presented to the student who best exemplifies the qualities of caring, constructive and dedicated leadership. In 2009-10, Ivan served as Acting President and Internal Vice-President of the Students’ Union when the President stepped down for personal reasons shortly after being elected.I v a n d e v o t e d g r e a t e f f o r t s t o r e p r e s e n t i n g s t u d e n t s ’ interests, including being elected to the University Council as the first student member. He sought to enhance the caring culture on campus through a campus-wide charity c o n c e r t , w i t h f u n d s d o n a t e d t o S o w e r s A c t i o n f o r re-building schools in Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake. He also widened HKUST’ s network with student groups o u t s i d e H o n g K o n g b y o r g a n i z i n g v i s i t s t o M a i n l a n d universities and receiving counterparts from Singapore and Malaysia.
Early Research Award
IELM student Yang Yang was named First Runner-up in the Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award for the project “The Double Effects of Customer Financing on Operations Planning”, supervised by Prof Xiangtong Qi. The award was established in 2009 to honor o u t s t a n d i n g p e r f o r m e r s i n H K U S T ’ s U n d e r g r a d u a t e Research Opportunity Program and to encourage more student participation in the signature program which allows undergraduates to gain early research experience. Six students out of 250 across HKUST were selected for awards, which were presented in May 2010.
Honors and Awards
Students
International Academy
for
Quality Academician
Professor Fugee Tsung, Head of IELM, has been elected an Academician of the International Academy for Quality. The academy is the most prestigious international organization i n t h e f i e l d o f q u a l i t y. M e m b e r s a r e p e e r- n o m i n a t e d i n d i v i d u a l s i d e n t i f i e d a s g l o b a l t h o u g h t l e a d e r s i n quality-related issues. Prof Tsung has a strong research record in quality control and improvement of complex systems in both manufacturing and service sectors. He is the second International Academy for Quality academician in Hong Kong and one of only six academicians in Greater China.
Institute of Ergonomics
and
Human Factors Fellow
Professor Richard So has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. The Institute, founded in 1949, is the oldest professional society in ergonomics. Its publications, Ergonomics and Applied
Ergonomics are the most recognized journals in the field.
IIE Honor for Undergraduate
Undergraduate Ester Wang Dongyang’ s paper on “Modeling and Forecasting Pandemic Influenza” for Hong Kong was s e l e c t e d a s a f i n a l i s t i n t h e 2 0 1 1 I I E U n d e r g r a d u a t e Students Technical Paper Competition. In May, Ester gave a presentation at the IIE Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada.
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Has your contact information changed? Do you have any recent news that you would like to be included in our next newsletter? Send your information to us by the following means:
Forthcoming
The Second POMS-HK International Conference, jointly organized by the IELM Department, HKUST Logistics & Supply Chain Management Institute and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) - Hong Kong Chapter, will be held on January 6-7, 2011. The theme is “POM in the Economic Recovery”. The conference creates a forum for the discussion of production and operations management issues in the face of the changing economy. Practitioners and academics are invited to share their knowledge, experience, and insights on the design, analysis, planning, implementation, and management of production and service systems and their impact.
Events
ostgraduates in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management (IELM) have h a d a f r u i t f u l y e a r i n s e c u r i n g i n t e r n a t i o n a l recognition for their research, with a clutch of well-deserved honors confirming their achievements and the world-class status of HKUST.
In July 2010, PhD candidate Jian Li received the First Prize in the IBM Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 Institute for Opera-tions Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Interna-tional Conference on Service Science in Taipei. INFORMS is the world’s largest professional society in operation research and management science. The award recognizes excellence in theory, methodologies and applications in Service Science, Engineering and Practice. Li gained the accolade with his paper on “Directional Monitoring Schemes for Multivariate Categorical Processes”. The paper was co-authored by Professor Fugee Tsung, Head of the IELM Department, and Changliang Zou.
Li went on to receive a Best Student Paper Finalist Award in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability Section of the INFORMS Annual Conference, held in Austin, US in November 2010. The conference, which gathers together leading international scholars to exchange their latest research results, saw 5,000 researchers attend and nearly 100 sessions take place. Li’s paper focused on “Multivariate Categorical Charting Techniques via Log-Linear Models” and was also co-authored by Professor Tsung and Zou.
In the first half of 2011, four more IELM PhD postgraduates received awards. In January 2011, Liang Lu, supervised by Profes-sor Xiangtong Qi, received first prize in the Best Student Paper Competition at the Second POMS-HK International Conference, organized by the Production and Operations Management Society -
Hong Kong Chapter. His paper looked at “Cooperation in Recycling with Economy of Scale and Capacity Limit”.
Cuiting Guo, supervised by Professor Richard So, received the Best Short Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Virtual Reality 2011 Conference in Singapore in March. The gathering is the premier international event and exhibition on virtual reality. It focuses on recent research and development in virtual environments, augmented reality, and 3D user interfaces.
In April, Daniel Mo Yiu-wing received a Sir Edward Youde Memo-rial Fellowship 2010/2011. These highly competitive honors recognize the efforts of an outstanding postgraduate student with a proven record of academic excellence. Daniel also received a Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship in 2004 during his master’s degree study. His PhD supervisors are Professor Raymond Cheung and Professor Mitchell Tseng.
In addition, Hui Cheng, supervised by Professor Xiangtong Qi, won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management. His paper explored “The 3PL’s Optimal Transportation Pricing Problem in Dynamic Lot Sizing Models”. The conference was held in Tianjin in June. It is IELM’s goal that our students contribute to society and strive for greater achievements with each year that goes by, and to train outstanding performers who will be of great benefit to the develop-ment of science and technology in the future. Our doctoral students are now taking that message around the world with their high-flying research.
If you would like to join our dynamic researchers, visit http://www1.ielm.ust.hk/ for further details of our work.
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Professor Fugee Tsung
Professor and Head IELM Department
Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal
Ivan So Yik Ching received the Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Service to the Student Body of HKUST. The annual award is presented to the student who best exemplifies the qualities of caring, constructive and dedicated leadership. In 2009-10, Ivan served as Acting President and Internal Vice-President of the Students’ Union when the President stepped down for personal reasons shortly after being elected.
Ivan devoted great efforts to representing students’ interests, including being elected to the University Council as the first student member. He sought to enhance the caring culture on campus through a campus-wide charity concert, with funds donated to Sowers
The exciting research being carried out by the Department’s doctoral students is drawing the world’s attention with a host of prestigious awards over the past year
Postgraduates on
I S S U E N o . 1 3 DEPARTMENT OF
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
ostgraduates in the Department of Industrial Engineer-ing and Logistics Management (IELM) have had a fruitful year in securing international recognition for their research, with a clutch of well-deserved honors confirming their achievements and the world-class status of HKUST.
In July 2010, PhD candidate Jian Li received the First Prize in the IBM Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 Institute for Operations Research a n d t h e M a n a g e m e n t S c i e n c e s (INFORMS) International Conference on Service Science in Taipei. INFORMS is the world’ s largest professional soci-ety in operation research and manage-ment science. The award recognizes excellence in theory, methodologies and applications in Service Science, Engineering and Practice. Li gained the accolade with his paper on “Directional Monitoring Schemes for Multivariate Categorical Processes”. The paper was co-authored by Professor Fugee Tsung, Head of the IELM Department, and Changliang Zou. Li went on to receive a Best Student Paper Finalist Award in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability Section of the INFORMS Annual Conference, held in Austin, US in November 2010. The confer-ence, which gathers together leading international scholars to exchange their latest research results, saw 5,000 researchers attend and nearly 100 sessions take place. Li’ s paper focused on “Multivariate Categorical Charting Techniques via Log-Linear Models” and was also co-authored by Professor Tsung and Zou. In the first half of 2011, four more IELM PhD postgraduates received awards. In January 2011, Liang Lu, supervised by Profes-sor Xiangtong Qi, received first prize in the Best Student Paper Competition at the Second POMS-HK International Conference, organized by the Production and Operations Management Society - Hong Kong Chapter. His paper looked at “Cooperation in Recycling
with Economy of Scale and Capacity Limit”.
Cuiting Guo, supervised by Professor Richard So, received the Best Short Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Virtual Reality 2011 Conference in Singapore in March. The gathering is the premier international event and exhibition on virtual reality. It focuses on recent research and development in virtual environments, augmented reality, and 3D user interfaces.
In April, Daniel Mo Yiu-wing received a Sir Edward Youde Memo-rial Fellowship 2010/2011. These highly competitive honors rec-ognize the efforts of an outstanding postgraduate student with a proven record of academic excellence. Daniel also received a Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship in 2004 during his master’ s degree study. His PhD supervisors are Professor Raymond Cheung and Professor Mitchell Tseng.
In addition, Hui Cheng, supervised by Professor Xiangtong Qi, won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International
Conference on Service Systems and Service Management. His paper explored “The 3PL’ s Opti-mal Transportation Pricing Problem in Dynamic Lot Sizing Models”. The conference was held in Tianjin in June.
It is IELM’s goal that our students contribute to society and strive for greater achievements with each year that goes by, and to train outstanding performers who will be of great benefit to the devel-opment of science and technology in the future. Our doctoral stu-dents are now taking that message around the world with their high-flying research.
If you would like to join our dynamic researchers, visit http://www1.ielm.ust.hk/ for further details of our work.
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Over 160 mentors and student mentees enjoyed an informal get-together at the IELM Mentorship Dinner in November. The mentorship program provides a great platform for s t u d e n t s t o g a i n i n s i g h t i n t o t h e w o r l d o f i n d u s t r i a l engineering. To help the long-term development of students’ careers, the program offers a channel for students to ask the
advice of those already in the business, broadening students’ vision and building a supportive relationship between mentors and mentees. By taking part in the program, mentees can also gain a competitive edge, expand their networks, and build social skills to boost their career potential.
IELM Mentorship Dinner
3 Nov 2010
P r o f e s s o r C h u n g - Ye e L e e, C h a i r Professor, has had a busy and rewarding twelve months, with invitations to give k e y n o t e s p e e c h e s a t i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o n f e re n c e s a n d re c o g n i t i o n o f h i s significant research record and innovative approach with funding awards for projects.
In November 2010, Professor Lee delivered a keynote speech on “Ocean Container Transport: Making Global Supply Chain Management Effective” at the INFORMS Annual Conference in the US. Professor Lee also gave a keynote speech at the International Symposium on Scheduling in Osaka, Japan in July 2011. His presentation focused on the “Current Trend of Research in Scheduling: Challenges and Opportunities”. The symposium helped international researchers explore the importance of strategic scheduling as a key technology for industries and increasingly for the service sector as well. Regarding research funding, Professor Lee and Professor Ajay Joneja were awarded a research grant from the I n n o v a t i o n a n d Te c h n o l o g y F u n d f o r t h e i r p ro j e c t “Integrated Decision Support System for Dynamic Vehicle-Dispatching and Scheduling with Real-time Information under Operation Uncertainty”. The project seeks to develop an integrated information technology platform for passenger transport with real-time operations and information exchange to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency.
The study “Transforming Hong Kong’ s Ocean Container Transport Logistics Network”, led by Professor Lee, was one of only six projects out of 89 proposals to be supported in the first round of the Research Grants Council’ s Theme-based Research Scheme. The project received funding of HK$13,292,000. Results were announced in July 2011.
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT As we share with delight HKUST’s 20th Anniversary
celebra-tions, IELM can also celebrate a significant year on its own account. Through the terrific efforts of our academics and students, the Department has enjoyed a remarkably successful 12 months. Our professors have been elected to prestigious academic societies, our doctoral students have received Best Student Paper Awards at top conferences and competitions, and our undergraduates have won honors and awards in a number of contests.
In just two decades, HKUST has built a worldwide reputation for the quality of its research and IELM researchers thrive in the cutting-edge environment of frontier studies. Always eager to exchange views with other scholars globally and to bring together leading researchers, we successfully organized the Second POMS-HK International Conference and the 1st Forum for the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China in January. In addition, we took part in the IIE Asian Conference 2011 in June.
Through these different gatherings, we seized the opportunity to establish close relationships with scholars and experts in differ-ent locations and to share our research insights. IELM research students have also been able to gain additional perspectives and explore different ideas through communication with research-ers from outside Hong Kong.
To enhance the learning experience of our undergraduates, we have continued to offer diversified activities and experiences. Each year, we invite alumni and mentors to share their experi-ence with students at our Alumni Dinner and Mentorship Dinner. Such occasions help students to prepare for the future and to gain a better understanding of how industry works and the career opportunities that await, adding to the knowledge they gain in the lecture theater.
We plan to keep building on our stimulating research and learn-ing environments for faculty members and students and look forward to taking the Department to the next level of achieve-ment in the future.
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The 2nd Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)-Hong Kong International Conference, jointly organized by the IELM Department, HKUST Logistics & Supply Chain Management Institute and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) - Hong Kong Chapter, brought together practitioners and academics to share their knowledge, experience and insights on the conference’ s theme, “POM in the Economic Recovery”. Discussions focused on production and operations management issues in the face of the changing economy, with experts offering perspectives on the design, analysis, planning, implementation, and management of production and service systems and their impact.
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Professor Mitchell Tseng, Chair Professor, h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d A s s o c i a t e Vice-President for Research and Innovation at HKUST.
Professor Jeff Hong has become Visiting Senior Financial Economist at the Shanghai Stock Exchange where he will conduct re s e a rc h o n r i s k i d e n t i f i c a t i o n a n d management.
Professor Richard So has been invited to become Editor of the Human Factors Area of Displays, an international journal focusing on research related to vision and displays. The journal has been established for 33 years.
2nd POMS-HK International Conference
6 January 2011
With Asia now the largest manufacturing center in t h e w o r l d , t h e r e i s a demand for a broad range of industrial engineering t e c h n i q u e s , o p e n i n g u p f r e s h h o r i z o n s f o r industrial engineers in the
region. Emerging fields, such as the environmental industry, a r e a l s o b r i n g s n e w c h a l l e n g e s a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s . Recognizing the rising importance of Asia, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the world’ s largest professional society in the field, held its first Asian regional conference in
Shanghai in June. The conference was jointly organized by Shanghai Jiaotong University and HKUST. The conference brought together scholars and industrial experts to exchange views on industrial engineering research and applications in Asia in the new era.
IIE Asian Conference 2011
10 June 2011
The IELM Department successfully hosted the 1st Forum for the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China (CIEDHC) at HKUST.
1st Forum for the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China
8 January 2011
Quality Management Project Award
IELM undergraduates Luo Sihua, Pang Yik Hang and He Zhiyi received the second runner-up award in the Hong Kong Society for Quality student project competition.
Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal
Ivan So Yik Ching received the Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Service to the Student Body of HKUST. The annual award is presented to the student who best exemplifies the qualities of caring, constructive and dedicated leadership. In 2009-10, Ivan served as Acting President and Internal Vice-President of the Students’ Union when the President stepped down for personal reasons shortly after being elected.I v a n d e v o t e d g r e a t e f f o r t s t o r e p r e s e n t i n g s t u d e n t s ’ interests, including being elected to the University Council as the first student member. He sought to enhance the caring culture on campus through a campus-wide charity c o n c e r t , w i t h f u n d s d o n a t e d t o S o w e r s A c t i o n f o r re-building schools in Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake. He also widened HKUST’ s network with student groups o u t s i d e H o n g K o n g b y o r g a n i z i n g v i s i t s t o M a i n l a n d universities and receiving counterparts from Singapore and Malaysia.
Early Research Award
IELM student Yang Yang was named First Runner-up in the Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award for the project “The Double Effects of Customer Financing on Operations Planning”, supervised by Prof Xiangtong Qi. The award was established in 2009 to honor o u t s t a n d i n g p e r f o r m e r s i n H K U S T ’ s U n d e r g r a d u a t e Research Opportunity Program and to encourage more student participation in the signature program which allows undergraduates to gain early research experience. Six students out of 250 across HKUST were selected for awards, which were presented in May 2010.
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International Academy
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Quality Academician
Professor Fugee Tsung, Head of IELM, has been elected an Academician of the International Academy for Quality. The academy is the most prestigious international organization i n t h e f i e l d o f q u a l i t y. M e m b e r s a r e p e e r- n o m i n a t e d i n d i v i d u a l s i d e n t i f i e d a s g l o b a l t h o u g h t l e a d e r s i n quality-related issues. Prof Tsung has a strong research record in quality control and improvement of complex systems in both manufacturing and service sectors. He is the second International Academy for Quality academician in Hong Kong and one of only six academicians in Greater China.
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Human Factors Fellow
Professor Richard So has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. The Institute, founded in 1949, is the oldest professional society in ergonomics. Its publications, Ergonomics and Applied
Ergonomics are the most recognized journals in the field.
IIE Honor for Undergraduate
Undergraduate Ester Wang Dongyang’ s paper on “Modeling and Forecasting Pandemic Influenza” for Hong Kong was s e l e c t e d a s a f i n a l i s t i n t h e 2 0 1 1 I I E U n d e r g r a d u a t e Students Technical Paper Competition. In May, Ester gave a presentation at the IIE Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada.
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Forthcoming
The Second POMS-HK International Conference, jointly organized by the IELM Department, HKUST Logistics & Supply Chain Management Institute and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) - Hong Kong Chapter, will be held on January 6-7, 2011. The theme is “POM in the Economic Recovery”. The conference creates a forum for the discussion of production and operations management issues in the face of the changing economy. Practitioners and academics are invited to share their knowledge, experience, and insights on the design, analysis, planning, implementation, and management of production and service systems and their impact.
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ostgraduates in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management (IELM) have h a d a f r u i t f u l y e a r i n s e c u r i n g i n t e r n a t i o n a l recognition for their research, with a clutch of well-deserved honors confirming their achievements and the world-class status of HKUST.
In July 2010, PhD candidate Jian Li received the First Prize in the IBM Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 Institute for Opera-tions Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Interna-tional Conference on Service Science in Taipei. INFORMS is the world’s largest professional society in operation research and management science. The award recognizes excellence in theory, methodologies and applications in Service Science, Engineering and Practice. Li gained the accolade with his paper on “Directional Monitoring Schemes for Multivariate Categorical Processes”. The paper was co-authored by Professor Fugee Tsung, Head of the IELM Department, and Changliang Zou.
Li went on to receive a Best Student Paper Finalist Award in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability Section of the INFORMS Annual Conference, held in Austin, US in November 2010. The conference, which gathers together leading international scholars to exchange their latest research results, saw 5,000 researchers attend and nearly 100 sessions take place. Li’s paper focused on “Multivariate Categorical Charting Techniques via Log-Linear Models” and was also co-authored by Professor Tsung and Zou.
In the first half of 2011, four more IELM PhD postgraduates received awards. In January 2011, Liang Lu, supervised by Profes-sor Xiangtong Qi, received first prize in the Best Student Paper Competition at the Second POMS-HK International Conference, organized by the Production and Operations Management Society -
Hong Kong Chapter. His paper looked at “Cooperation in Recycling with Economy of Scale and Capacity Limit”.
Cuiting Guo, supervised by Professor Richard So, received the Best Short Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Virtual Reality 2011 Conference in Singapore in March. The gathering is the premier international event and exhibition on virtual reality. It focuses on recent research and development in virtual environments, augmented reality, and 3D user interfaces.
In April, Daniel Mo Yiu-wing received a Sir Edward Youde Memo-rial Fellowship 2010/2011. These highly competitive honors recognize the efforts of an outstanding postgraduate student with a proven record of academic excellence. Daniel also received a Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship in 2004 during his master’s degree study. His PhD supervisors are Professor Raymond Cheung and Professor Mitchell Tseng.
In addition, Hui Cheng, supervised by Professor Xiangtong Qi, won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management. His paper explored “The 3PL’s Optimal Transportation Pricing Problem in Dynamic Lot Sizing Models”. The conference was held in Tianjin in June. It is IELM’s goal that our students contribute to society and strive for greater achievements with each year that goes by, and to train outstanding performers who will be of great benefit to the develop-ment of science and technology in the future. Our doctoral students are now taking that message around the world with their high-flying research.
If you would like to join our dynamic researchers, visit http://www1.ielm.ust.hk/ for further details of our work.
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Professor and Head IELM Department
Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal
Ivan So Yik Ching received the Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Service to the Student Body of HKUST. The annual award is presented to the student who best exemplifies the qualities of caring, constructive and dedicated leadership. In 2009-10, Ivan served as Acting President and Internal Vice-President of the Students’ Union when the President stepped down for personal reasons shortly after being elected.
Ivan devoted great efforts to representing students’ interests, including being elected to the University Council as the first student member. He sought to enhance the caring culture on campus through a campus-wide charity concert, with funds donated to Sowers
The exciting research being carried out by the Department’s doctoral students is drawing the world’s attention with a host of prestigious awards over the past year
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ostgraduates in the Department of Industrial Engineer-ing and Logistics Management (IELM) have had a fruitful year in securing international recognition for their research, with a clutch of well-deserved honors confirming their achievements and the world-class status of HKUST.
In July 2010, PhD candidate Jian Li received the First Prize in the IBM Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 Institute for Operations Research a n d t h e M a n a g e m e n t S c i e n c e s (INFORMS) International Conference on Service Science in Taipei. INFORMS is the world’ s largest professional soci-ety in operation research and manage-ment science. The award recognizes excellence in theory, methodologies and applications in Service Science, Engineering and Practice. Li gained the accolade with his paper on “Directional Monitoring Schemes for Multivariate Categorical Processes”. The paper was co-authored by Professor Fugee Tsung, Head of the IELM Department, and Changliang Zou. Li went on to receive a Best Student Paper Finalist Award in the Quality, Statistics and Reliability Section of the INFORMS Annual Conference, held in Austin, US in November 2010. The confer-ence, which gathers together leading international scholars to exchange their latest research results, saw 5,000 researchers attend and nearly 100 sessions take place. Li’ s paper focused on “Multivariate Categorical Charting Techniques via Log-Linear Models” and was also co-authored by Professor Tsung and Zou. In the first half of 2011, four more IELM PhD postgraduates received awards. In January 2011, Liang Lu, supervised by Profes-sor Xiangtong Qi, received first prize in the Best Student Paper Competition at the Second POMS-HK International Conference, organized by the Production and Operations Management Society - Hong Kong Chapter. His paper looked at “Cooperation in Recycling
with Economy of Scale and Capacity Limit”.
Cuiting Guo, supervised by Professor Richard So, received the Best Short Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Virtual Reality 2011 Conference in Singapore in March. The gathering is the premier international event and exhibition on virtual reality. It focuses on recent research and development in virtual environments, augmented reality, and 3D user interfaces.
In April, Daniel Mo Yiu-wing received a Sir Edward Youde Memo-rial Fellowship 2010/2011. These highly competitive honors rec-ognize the efforts of an outstanding postgraduate student with a proven record of academic excellence. Daniel also received a Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship in 2004 during his master’ s degree study. His PhD supervisors are Professor Raymond Cheung and Professor Mitchell Tseng.
In addition, Hui Cheng, supervised by Professor Xiangtong Qi, won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International
Conference on Service Systems and Service Management. His paper explored “The 3PL’ s Opti-mal Transportation Pricing Problem in Dynamic Lot Sizing Models”. The conference was held in Tianjin in June.
It is IELM’s goal that our students contribute to society and strive for greater achievements with each year that goes by, and to train outstanding performers who will be of great benefit to the devel-opment of science and technology in the future. Our doctoral stu-dents are now taking that message around the world with their high-flying research.
If you would like to join our dynamic researchers, visit http://www1.ielm.ust.hk/ for further details of our work.
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Over 160 mentors and student mentees enjoyed an informal get-together at the IELM Mentorship Dinner in November. The mentorship program provides a great platform for s t u d e n t s t o g a i n i n s i g h t i n t o t h e w o r l d o f i n d u s t r i a l engineering. To help the long-term development of students’ careers, the program offers a channel for students to ask the
advice of those already in the business, broadening students’ vision and building a supportive relationship between mentors and mentees. By taking part in the program, mentees can also gain a competitive edge, expand their networks, and build social skills to boost their career potential.
IELM Mentorship Dinner
3 Nov 2010
P r o f e s s o r C h u n g - Ye e L e e, C h a i r Professor, has had a busy and rewarding twelve months, with invitations to give k e y n o t e s p e e c h e s a t i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o n f e re n c e s a n d re c o g n i t i o n o f h i s significant research record and innovative approach with funding awards for projects.
In November 2010, Professor Lee delivered a keynote speech on “Ocean Container Transport: Making Global Supply Chain Management Effective” at the INFORMS Annual Conference in the US. Professor Lee also gave a keynote speech at the International Symposium on Scheduling in Osaka, Japan in July 2011. His presentation focused on the “Current Trend of Research in Scheduling: Challenges and Opportunities”. The symposium helped international researchers explore the importance of strategic scheduling as a key technology for industries and increasingly for the service sector as well. Regarding research funding, Professor Lee and Professor Ajay Joneja were awarded a research grant from the I n n o v a t i o n a n d Te c h n o l o g y F u n d f o r t h e i r p ro j e c t “Integrated Decision Support System for Dynamic Vehicle-Dispatching and Scheduling with Real-time Information under Operation Uncertainty”. The project seeks to develop an integrated information technology platform for passenger transport with real-time operations and information exchange to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency.
The study “Transforming Hong Kong’ s Ocean Container Transport Logistics Network”, led by Professor Lee, was one of only six projects out of 89 proposals to be supported in the first round of the Research Grants Council’ s Theme-based Research Scheme. The project received funding of HK$13,292,000. Results were announced in July 2011.
Email: [email protected]
Mail: IELM Newsletter Editor
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