Faculty
POSITION
Southern University of Science and Technology
Department of Information Systems and Management Engineering, College of Business
Chair Professor2021 - Present
Lingnan University
Faculty of Business
Chair Professor2011 - 2020
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Faculty of Business
Professor2006 - 2011
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management
Assistant/Associate Professor1993 - 2006
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（HUST）
School of Management
Lecturer1990 - 1991
EDUCATION
University of Toronto
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering/Operations Research1990
Huazhong Institute of Technology (Now HUST)
M.Eng. Engineering Management1983
B.Eng. Ship Building Engineering1980
RESEARCH INTEREST
Logistics, supply chain management, stochastic models, service system management
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Undergraduate Courses
Operations Research II (Stochastic Models); Integrated Production Systems;
Financial Engineering; Service Management and Operations Analysis;
Introduction to Industrial Engineering and Model Logistics; Introduction to Operations Research
Postgraduate Courses
Stochastic Models in Operations Research; Reliability and Maintenance;
Advanced Production Systems; Special Topics in Systems Engineering; Financial Engineering;
Operations Management; Enterprise Resource Planning (2-day short course)
Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Lingnan University
Undergraduate Courses
Operations Management, Management Science
Postgraduate Courses
Supply Chain Management
SELECTED PUBLICATION
Price Delegation or Not? The Effect of Heterogeneous Sales Agents under Asymmetric Information
Production and Operations Management. 2021 30 (5), 1350-1364 (with Chen J, Huang H, Xu H)
Push vs. Pull: Inventory-Leadtime Tradeoff for Managing System Variability
European Journal of Operational Research. 2020 287 (1), 119-132 (with Xu, H., Zhu X)
Procurement Auctions with Uncertain Satisfaction Risk
Production and Operations Management. 2019 28 (5), 1206-1221
(with Huang H., Parker, G. K., Tan, R., Xu H.)
Effects of Downstream Entry in a Supply Chain with a Spot Market
IIE Trans. 2019 51 (10), 1110-1127 (with Xing W., Zhang Q., Zhao X.)
The multi-criteria constrained shortest path problem
Transportation Research Part E. 2017 101, 13-29 (with Shi, N., Zhou, S., Wang, F., Tao, Y.)
Evolving competition between Hong Kong and Shenzhen ports
Maritime Policy & Management. 2015 42, 1-17 (with Tian, X., Wang, S.)
Lead-lag relationship between new-building and second-hand ship prices
Maritime Policy & Management. 2014 41, 303-327 (with Kou, Y., Luo, M.)
Development of a container port system in Pearl River Delta: path to multi-gateway ports
Journal of Transport Geography. 2013 28 (1), 30-38 (with Wang, K. T., Yip T.L.)
Service and price competitions facing pragmatic customers
Production and Operations Management. 2012 21 (4), 747-760 (with Li, L., Jiang, L.)
Post-entry container port capacity expansion
Transportation Research B. 2012 46(1), 120-138 (with Luo, M., Gao, F.)
An Optimal policy for dynamic joint price and leadtime quotation
Operations Research. 2011 59 (6), 1523-1527 (with Feng, Liu, X.)
Promised delivery time and capacity games in time competition
Management Science. 2011 57(3), 599-610 (with Shang, W.)
Markovian iterative method for degree distributions of growing networks
Physical. Review E. 2010 82 (3), 031105 (with Shi, D., Zhou, H.)
An econometric analysis of the container shipping market
Maritime Policy and Management. 2009 36 (5), 507-523 (with Luo, M., Fan)
VPeers: a peer-to-peer service discovery framework for virtual manufacturing organizations
Computer in Industry. 2008 59, 411-419 (with Xiang, A, Luo, Q.)
Pricing and leadtime decisions in a decentralized supply chain
Management Science. 2007 53, 713–725 (with Parlar, M., Zhu, X.)
Dynamic competitive newsvendors with service sensitive demands
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 2007 9, 84-93 (with Shang, W., Wu, S.)
Degree distributions of evolving networks
Europhysics Letters. 2006 76 (4), 731-737 (with Shi, D., Zhu, S. X., Zhou. H.)
Discrete-time models for common lifetime inventory systems
Mathematics of Operations Research. 2005 30, 718-732 (with Lian, Z., Neuts, M.)
An Markov chain-based numerical method for calculating network degree distributions
Physical Review E. 2005 71, 036140 (1-9) (with Shi, D., Chen, Q.)
Dynamic traffic control for web-server networks
Computer Networks. 2004 45 (4), 523-536 (with Lu, Y.)
Analysis and optimization of multi-stage inventory-queues
Management Science. 2004 50, 365-380 (with Liu, X., and Yao, D. D.)
Resource allocation in multi-site service systems with inter-site customer flow
Management Science. 2003 49, 1739-1752 (with Chao, X., Zheng, S.)
Commonality and postponement in multi-stage assembly systems
European Journal of Operational Research. 2002 142, 523-538 (with Ma, S., Wang, W.)
Throughput, flow time, and service level in an unreliable assembly system
European Journal of Operational Research. 2001 135, 602-615 (with Yuan, X.M.)
Coordinated replenishment in inventory systems with correlated demands
European Journal of Operational Research. 2000 123, 490-50 (with Yuan, X.M.)
(s, S) continuous review models for inventory with fixed lifetimes
Operations Research. 1999 47, 150-158 (with Lian, Z.)
Dynamic and static job allocation for multi-server systems
IIE Transactions. 1998 30, 845-854 (with Liu, X.)
Busy period in Gx/G/∞
Journal of Applied Probability. 1996 33, 815-829 (with Shi, D.) ),
Departures in GXn/Gn/∞
Queueing Systems 19. 1995 399-419 (with Templeton, J.G.C.)
Autocorrelations in infinite server batch arrival queues
Queueing Systems. 1993 13, 571-595 (with Templeton, J.G.C.)
On the Gx/G/∞ system
Journal of Applied Probability. 1990 27, 671-683 (with Kashyap, B.R.K., Templeton, J.G.C.)
(s, S) continuous review models for inventory with random lifetimes
Operations Research Letters. 1990 9, 161-167