RESEARCH INTEREST

  Logistics and supply chain management

  service system management

  stochastic models

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

SELECTED PUBLICATION

The Bright Side of Price Volatility in Global Commodity Procurement”, Management Science,  https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.00304 , 2024 (with Xing W, Zhang F, Zhao Q

Bilateral Transshipment Between Competing Retailers, Naval Research Logistics, 70 (3), 509-521, 2023 (with Fu Q, Shang W)

Follow the Crowd with Unknown Service Rate, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 25 (1), 341-352, 2023 (with Yang L, Shang W)

Operational Hedging or Financial Hedging? Strategic Risk Management in Commodity Procurement, Production and Operations Management 31 (8), 3233-3263, 2022 (with Xing W, Ma S, Zhao X)

Price Delegation or Not? The Effect of Heterogeneous Sales Agents under Asymmetric Information, Production and Operations Management 30 (5), 1350-1364, 2021 (with Chen J, Huang H, Xu H) 

Push vs. Pull: Inventory-Leadtime Tradeoff for Managing System Variability, European Journal of Operational Research 287 (1), 119-132, 2020 (with Xu H, Zhu X)

Procurement Auctions with Uncertain Satisfaction Risk, Production and Operations Management 28 (5), 1206-1221, 2019 (with Huang H, Parker, G. K., Tan, R., Xu H.)

Effects of Downstream Entry in a Supply Chain with a Spot Market, IIE Trans. 51 (10), 1110-1127, 2019 (with Xing W, Zhang Q, Zhao X)

The multi-criteria constrained shortest path problem, Transportation Research Part E 101, 13-29, 2017 (with Shi N, Zhou S, Wang F, Tao Y)

Sell through a local retailer or operate your own store? Channel structure and risk analysis, Journal  of the Operational Research Society 67 (2), 325–338, 2016 (with Niu B, Wang J)

Evolving competition between Hong Kong and Shenzhen ports, Maritime Policy & Management 42, 1-17, 2015 (with Tian X, Wang S)

More Than a Second Channel? Supply Chain Strategies in B2B Spot Markets, European Journal of Operational Research 239, 699-710, 2014 (with Xing W, Wang S)

Development of a container port system in Pearl River Delta: path to multi-gateway ports, Journal of Transport Geography 28 (1), 30-38, 2013 (with Liu L, Wang KT, Yip TL)

Service and price competitions facing pragmatic customers, Production and Operations Management 21 (4), 747-760, 2012 (with Li L, Jiang L)

Post-entry container port capacity expansion, Transportation Research B 46(1), 120-138, 2012 (with Luo M, Gao F)

An Optimal policy for dynamic joint price and leadtime quotation, Operations Research 59 (6), 1523-1527, 2011 (with Feng J, Liu X)

Promised delivery time and capacity games in time competition, Management Science 57(3), 599-610, 2011 (with Shang W)

Rolling-horizon replenishment − policies and performance, Naval Research Logistics 57,489-502, 2010 (with Lian Z, Zhu X)

Markovian iterative method for degree distributions of growing networks, Physical. Review E 82 (3), 031105, 2010 (with Shi D, Zhou H)

An econometric analysis of the container shipping market, Maritime Policy and Management 36 (5), 507-523, 2009 (with Luo M, Fan L)

A tandem network with MAP inputs, Operations Research Letters 36, 189-195, 2008 (with Lian Z)

Pricing and leadtime decisions in a decentralized supply chain, Management Science 53, 713–725, 2007 (with Parlar M, Zhu X)

Dynamic competitive newsvendors with service sensitive demands, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 9, 84-93, 2007 (with Shang W, Wu S)

Degree distributions of evolving networks, Europhysics Letters 76 (4), 731-737, 2006 (with Shi D,  Zhu X, Zhou H)

A profit sharing scheme for a two-firm joint venture, European Journal of Operational Research 170, 277-292, 2006 (with Du L, Hu Q)

Discrete-time models for common lifetime inventory systems, Mathematics of Operations Research 30, 718-732, 2005 (with Lian Z, Neuts M)

A Markov chain-based numerical method for calculating network degree distributions, Physical Review E 71, 036140 (1-9), 2005 (with Shi D, Chen Q)

Dynamic traffic control for web-server networks, Computer Networks, 45/4, 523-536, 2004 (with Lu Y)

Analysis and optimization of multi-stage inventory-queues, Management Science 50, 365-380, 2004 (with Liu X, Yao D D)

Resource allocation in multi-site service systems with inter-site customer flow, Management Science 49, 1739-1752, 2003 (with Chao X, Zheng S)

Commonality and postponement in multi-stage assembly systems, European Journal of Operational Research 142, 523-538, 2002 (with Ma S, Wang W)

Throughput, flow time, and service level in an unreliable assembly system, European Journal of Operational Research 135, 602-615, 2001 (with Yuan X M)

(s, S) continuous review models for inventory with fixed lifetimes, Operations Research 47, 150-158, 1999 (with Lian Z) 

Inventory systems of finite storage lifetimes, Naval Research Logistics 46, 39-56， 1999 (with Shi D H)

Dynamic and static job allocation for multi-server systems, IIE Transactions 30, 845-854, 1998 (with Liu X)

Service constrained inventory models with random lifetimes and lead times, Journal of the Operational Research Society 48, 1022-1028, 1997 (with Cheung K L)

Busy period in , Journal of Applied Probability 33, 815-829 (with Shi D)

Departures in , Queueing Systems 19, 399-419, 1995 (with Templeton JGC)

Autocorrelations in infinite server batch arrival queues, Queueing Systems 13, 571-595, 1993 (with Templeton JGC)

The system: system size, Queueing Systems 8, 323-356, 1991 (with Templeton JGC)

On the system, Journal of Applied Probability 27, 671-683, 1990 (with Kashyap BRK, Templeton JGC)

(s, S) continuous review models for inventory with random lifetimes, Operations Research Letters 9, 161-167, 1990

The service system with impatient customers, Queueing Systems 2, 362-372, 1987 (with Kashyap BRK, Templeton JGC)