Professional Affiliations and Activities

Fellow, IIE
Full Member, INFORMS
Member, Tau Beta Pi
Member, Omega Rho
Member, Sigma Xi
Member, Sigma Phi

1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2009 | 2010-Present

1980-1989

1987: ORSA NICHOLSON PRIZE COMMITTEE

1990-1999

1990 – 91: SECRETARY AND TREASURER

The Association of Chairpersons of Operations Research Departments (ACORD) of INFORMS

1991 – 92: VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT-ELECT

The Association of Chairpersons of Operations Research Departments (ACORD) of INFORMS

1992 – 93: PRESIDENT

The Association of Chairpersons of Operations Research Departments (ACORD) of INFORMS

1992 – 94: INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., August 1994.

1992 – PRESENT: SPECIALIST REGISTER

Hong Kong Research Grants Council

1992 – PRESENT: ACCESSOR

Hong Kong University and Polytechnic Grants Committee

1993: ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Sino-American International Technology Transfer Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan and Shenyang, China, May 17-18, 1993

1995 – 97: INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Lausanne, Switzerland, August, 1997

1996 – 2000: UNIVERSITY VISITING EXAMINER

Chinese University of Hong Kong.

1997: INVITED TUTORIAL

INFORMS National Meeting, San Diego, April, 1997

1998: KEYNOTE SPEAKER

International Conference on Nonlinear Programming and Variational Inequalities, Hong Kong, December 15-18, 1998

1999: INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The Second International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management, Ahmedabad, India, January 3-6, 1999

1999: INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

IFSA’99 : The Eighth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, Taiwan, ROC, August 17-20, 1999

1999: AREA CHAIR

IFSA’99 : The Eighth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, Taiwan, ROC, August 17-20, 1999

1999: INVITED KEY SPEAKER

International Conference on Optimization and Numerical Algebra, Nanjing, China, September, 1999

1999: INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

International Workshop on Semi-infinite Programming, Alicante, Spain, September, 1999

2000-2009

2000: EXTERNAL REVIEW COMMITTEE

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

2000: INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The fifth International Conference on Optimization Techniques and Applications (ICOTA’2000), Hong Kong, 2001

2000: ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The Eighth Bellman Continuum, the International Workshop on Intelligient Systems Resolutions, Taiwan, ROC, December, 2000

2000: PANEL CHAIR

The Eighth Bellman Continuum, the International Workshop on Intelligient Systems Resolutions, Taiwan, ROC, December, 2000

2000: INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The fifth Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering – Theory, Applications and Practice, Taiwan, ROC, December, 2001

2001: KEYNOTE SPEAKER

International Conference on Optimization and Optimal Control, Taiwan, June 1-4, 2001

2001: ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The International Conference on Optimization and Industry, Queensland, Australia, July 1-6, 2001

2001: INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The Fifth International Conference on Optimization, Hong Kong, December 15-17, 2001

2001: KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The Fifth International Conference on Optimization, Hong Kong, December 15-17, 2001

2002: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 4th International Symposium on Operations Resarch and Its Applications, Yichang-Chongqing, China, June 1-4, 2002

2002: ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The 9th Bellman Continuum, Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2002

2002: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, Singapore, November 18-22, 2002

2002: INVITED KEY SPEAKER AND ADVISORY BOARD

International Conference on Mathematical Programming, Shanghai, China, December 18-21, 2002

2002 – 2005: ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

2002: ACADEMIC REVIEW BOARD

Applied Mathematics Department, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

2003: EXTERNAL REVIEWER

National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C.

2003: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 4th International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management, Tainan, Taiwan, January, 2003

2003 – 2006: DEPARTMENT ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Applied Mathematics Department, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2004: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Computational Management Science Conference and Workshop on Computational Econometrics and Statistics, Neuchatel, Switzerland, April 2-5, 2004.

2004: PLENARY SPEAKER

International Workshop on Optimization, Tainan, Taiwan, May 17-20, 2004.

2004: PLENARY SPEAKER AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

International Conference on Analysis and Its Applications, Changhua, Taiwan, May 28-31, 2004.

2004: PLENARY SPEAKER AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The Third International Conference on Optimization and Control with Applications, Chongqing-Chengdu-Jiuzaigu, Chongqing, China, July 28-31, 2004.

2004 – PRESENT: ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chinese Society of Fuzzy Information and Fuzzy Engineering, P. R. China.

2005: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 1st Symposium on Olympic Logistics, Beijing, China, February 25-26, 2005.

2005: HONORARY GUEST

International Conference on Business and Information, Hong Kong, July 14-15, 2005.

2005: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 11th World Congress of International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA 2005), Beijing, China, July 28-31, 2005.

2005: INVITED SPEAKER

International Conference on Complementarity, Duality, and Global Optimization in Science and Engineering (CDGO), Blacksburg, Virginia, August 15-17, 2005.

2005: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The International Workshop on Semi-infinite Programming, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC, August 24-27, 2005.

2005: PLENARY SPEAKER

The 18th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR05), Perth, Australia, September 26-28, 2005.< www.maths.curtin.edu.au/asor05 >.

2005: PLENARY SPEAKER AND PROGRAM AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization with Its Applications (ICNAOA05), Chungli, Taiwan, ROC, September 30 – October 3, 2005.

2005: INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The 3rd Sino-Japanese Optimization Meeting, Singapore, October 31 – November 2, 2005.< www2.bschool.nus.edu.sg/Conf/SJOM/Home.htm >.

2005: INVITED SPEAKER AND CLUSTER ORGANIZER

First Joint International Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Taiwan Mathematical Society (TMS/AMS 05), Taichung, Taiwan, December 14-18, 2005.< www.math.thu.edu.tw/2005ims/en/index.htm >.

2005 – PRESENT: CHIEF ADVISOR

Center for Engineering and Applied Research, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

2005 – PRESENT: ADVISOR

Center for Modern Logistics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

2006: INVITED SPEAKER AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The International Conference on Nonlinear Programming with Applications, Shanghai, China, May 29 – June 1, 2006.

2006: CLUSTER CHAIR

INFORMS International Meeting, Hong Kong, June 25-28, 2006.

2006: INVITED PLENARY SPEAKER

Bi-annual National Operations Research Conference of China (ORSC 2006), Shenzhen, China, June 29 – July 2, 2006.< www.orsc.org.cn >

2006: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 6th International Symposium on Operations Research and Its Applications (ISORA 06), Urumuqi, Xinjiang, China, August 8-12, 2006.< www.aporc.org >

2006: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 11th International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology (FTT 2006), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC, October 8-11, 2006.< www.jcis.org/jcis2006 >

2007: PLENARY SPEAKER AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The Fifth International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis (NACA 2007), Taiwan, ROC, May 31 – June 4, 2007.

2007: CO-CHAIR, INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM 2007), Beijing, PRC, May 31 – June 2, 2007.

2007: PLENARY SPEAKER AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 6th International Conference on Information and Management Sciences, Lhasa, Tibet, China, July 1 – 6, 2007.< orsc.edu.cn/ims >

2007: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

International Symposium on Optimization and Systems Biology, Beijing, China, August 7-9, 2007.< www.aporc.org/OSB/2007/index.php >

2007: STEERING COMMITTEE

The 7th International Conference on Optimization Techniques and Applications (ICOTA), Kobe, Japan, December 12-15, 2007.< www.iict.konan-u.ac.jp >

2007: STEERING COMMITTEE AND INVITED SPEAKER

The 3rd China Australia Workshop on Optimization Theory, Methods and Applications, Shanghai, China, December 16 – 18, 2007.

2008: INVITED SPEAKER

International Summer School on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Hunan, China, June 29-30 2008

2008: ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND INVITED SPEAKER

The 2nd Summer School on Optimization, Dalian, China, July 23-August 7,2008

2008: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 7th International Conference on Information and Management Sciences, Urumuchi, Sinkiang, China, August 12-18,2008.(http://www.orsc.edu.cn/ims)

2008: PLENARY SPEAKER

Sino-Japanese Optimization, Meeting, Tainan, Taiwan, August 27-30,2008. (www.ncts.ncku.edu.tw/sjom)

2008: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

International Symposium on Optimization and Systems Biology, Lijiang, China, October 31-November 3,2008. (www.aporc.org/OSB/2008/index.php)

2008: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

International Symposium on Operations Research and Its Applications, Lijiang, China, Octover 31-November 3,2008. (www.aporc.org/ISORA/2008/index.php.)

2008: CO-ORGANIZER

International symposium on Emergency Management(ISEM 08), Beijing, China, December 12-13, 2008. (http://www.orsc.org.cn/news/2008/ISEM08Announcement.pdf.)

2008: SESSION ORGANIZER

Joint Meeting of American Mathematical Society and Shanghai Mathematical Society, Shanghai, China, December 17-21, 2008. (http://math.fudan.edu.cn/science/Conference/SMS-AMS/index.html.)

2009: CO-ORGANIZER

The first World Congress on Global Optimization(WCGO 2009), Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, June 1-5, 2009. (http://159.226.47.199/wcgo2009/default.html.)

2009: ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The 4th International Conference on Optimization and Control with Applications(OCA 2009), Harbin, China, June 6-11,2009. (http://oca2009.hit.edu.cn/)

2009: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 8th International Conference on Information and Management Sciences, Banna, Yunnan, China, July 20-28, 2009. (www.orsc.edu.cn/ims)

2009: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

International Symposium on Optimization and Systems Biology, Zhangjiajie, China, September 20-22, 2009. (www.aporc.org/OSB/2009/index.php.)

2009: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

International Symposium on Operations Research and Its Applications, Zhangjiajie, China, September 20-22, 2009. (www.aporc.org/ISORA/2009/index.php.)

2009: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The Third International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering, Chongqing, China, September 26-27, 2009. (http;//icfie.cqust.cn/(S(ancxlgvi0dclha55ha5b3wnu))/English_Pages/Index_english.aspx.)

2009: CO-ORGANIZER

The 4th International Symposium on Emergency Management(ISEM 09), Beijing, China, December 12-13, 2009. (http://www.isem.org.cn/meeting/index.asp?id=579.)

2009: CO-ORGANIZER

International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Research and Behavioral Operations Management, Beijing, China, December 19-20, 2009. (http://mcm.edu.cn/bor/.)

2010-Present

2010: CO-CHAIR OF ACADEMIC COMMITTEE

The 8th Chinese Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Shanghai, China, May 21-25, 2010. (http://math.shu.edu.cn/mp2010/.)

2010: PLENARY SPEAKER AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER

International Conference on Optimization and Control(ICOCO 2010), Guiyang, China, July 18-23, 2010. (http://icoco2010.cqnu.edu.cn/.)

2010: SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

International Conference on Optimization, Simulation and Control, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 25-28, 2010. (http://www.ise.ufl.edu/cao/cosc2010/index.html)

2010: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The 9th International Conference on Information and Management Sciences, Urumchi and Kashi, China, August 12-19, 2010. (www.orsc.edu.cn/ims/ims2010/.)

2010: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

International Symposium on Operations Research and Its Applications(ISORA 2010), Chengdu, China, August 20-24, 2010. (www.aporc.org/ISORA/2010/index.php.)

2010: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

International Conference on Computational Systems Biology, Suzhou, China, September 9-11, 2010. (www.aporc.org/OSB/2010/index.php.)

2010: STEERING COMMITTEE

The 8th International Conference on Optimization Techniques and Applications (ICOTA 8), Shanghai, China, December 10-13, 2010. (http://www.fdsm.fudan.edu.cn/icota8/.)

2010: CHAIR AND ORGANIZER

The second International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management (BOM 2010), Beijing, China, December 18-19, 2010. (http://www.ie.tsinghua.edu.cn/conference/BOM-Workshop.html.)

2011: CO-ORGANIZER

The Second World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO2011), Chania, Greece, July 3-7, 2011.

2011: INVITED KEY SPEAKER

Workshop on Global Optimization, Izmir, Turkey, July 11-12.

2011: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

International Symposium on Operations Research and Its Applications (ISORA 2011), Dunhuang, China, August 28¨C 31.

2011: PROGRAM COMMITTEE

IEEE International Conference on Systems Biology, Zhuhai, China, September 2-4.

2011: CO-ORGANIZER

The 6th International Symposium on Emergency Management (ISEM 2011), Beijing, China, November 19-20.

2011: PLENARY SPEAKER

2011 Annual Meeting of Taiwan Mathematical Society, Taiwan, ROC, December 9-11.

2011: ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The First International Symposium on Optimization and Complex Systems, Shanghai, China, December 13-16.

2011: CHAIR AND ORGANIZER

The Third International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management (BOM 2011), Beijing, China, December 18-19.

2012: INVITED ATTENDEE

Inauguration Meeting of the International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management (IAITQM) Omaha, Nebraska, USA, June 3.

2012-PRESENT: ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER

International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management (IAITQM).

2012-PRESENT: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER

International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management (IAITQM).

2012: INVITED SPEAKER

2012 International Workshop on Optimization and Engineering Systems, Tainan, Taiwan, June 27-30.

2012: PLENARY SPEAKER

The 11th International Conference on Information and Management Sciences, Dunhuang, China, August 3-8.

2012: PLENARY SPEAKER AND CO-CHAIR OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The 5th International Conference on Optimization and Control with Applications (OCA5), Beijing, China, December 4-8.

2012: CHAIR AND ORGANIZER

The 4th International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management (BOM 2012), Chengdu, China, December 15-16.

2013: KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Logistics Systems (IML2013), Shanghai, China, February 27 ¨C March 2.

2013: KEY SPEAKER

The 5th Summer Workshop on Operations Research and Supply Chain Management, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2-4.

2013: PLENARY SPEAKER

The 3rd World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO2013), Yellow Mountain, China, July 7-12.

2013: KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The 10th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM¡¯13), Hong Kong, July 17-19.

2013: CO-ORGANIZER

The Ninth International Conference on Control and Optimization Theory and Applications (ICOTA-9), Taipei, Taiwan, December 12-14.

2013: CO-ORGANIZER

The 5th International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management (BOM 2013), Dalian, China, December 17-18.

2014: CO-CHAIR OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The First Pacific Optimization Conference (POC 2014), Wuxi, China, October 31¨November 2.

2014: CO-ORGANIZER

The 6th International Workshop on Behavioral Operations Management (BOM 2014), Shanghai, China, December 18-19.

2015: ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The 4th World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO 2015), Gainesville, Florida, USA, February 22-25.