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Academic Staff

Max Z.J. Shen

Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Chair Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Email:

vp-research@hku.hk

 Tel:

2857 8213

Biography

Professor Shen obtained his PhD from Northwestern University, USA in 2000. He started his academic career as Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the same year, and joined the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, where he rose through the academic ranks to become Chancellor’s Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor Shen joined HKU in 2021. Internationally recognized as a top scholar in his field, Professor Shen is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a former President of POMS.

Research Interests

  • Integrated Supply Chain Design and Management
  • Data Driven Logistics and Supply Chain Optimization
  • Design and Analysis of Optimization Algorithms
  • Energy Systems Optimization
  • Transportation System Planning

Selected Professional Activities and Awards

  • Associate editor for Operations Research
  • Associate editor for Management Science
  • Associate editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • Associate editor for Naval Research Logistics
  • Associate editor for IIE Transactions
  • Department editor for Production and Operations Management
  • CAREER Award from NSF (2003)
  • The Inaugural Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award, SOLA, INFORMS (2008)
  • IISE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award (2013)
  • Runner-up, INFORMS Health Application Society Best Paper Award (2016)
  • Franz Edelman Laureate (2018)
  • INFORMS Fellow (2018)
  • M&SOM Best Paper Award (2019)
  • POMS-JD.com Best Data-Driven Research Paper Award (2019)
  • INFORMS TSL Best Paper Award (2019)
  • Finalist, MSOM Data Driven Challenge (2020)
  • Finalist, MSOM Data Driven Challenge (2021)
  • Semifinalist, Gartner Power of the Profession Supply Chain Award (2022)
  • POMS Fellow (2022)
  • Fellow, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (2022)
  • Finalist, M&SOM Practice-based Research Competition (2023)
  • Finalist, INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award (2023)
  • Franz Edelman Laureate (2023)
  • Gartner Power of the Profession Supply Chain Award (2024)

Journal Publications

Books