Professor Cheng has earned numerous accolades for his outstanding academic achievements. Among them are the Rh Award for outstanding contributions to scholarship and research from the University of Manitoba, Canada (1989); the Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, USA (1992); a Chang Jiang Scholars Chair Professor position at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (2009-12); and the Education Leadership Award from the World Education Congress of CMO Asia (2014). He has an impressive portfolio of over 1,000 research papers in SCI/SSCI journals and 17 co-authored books.
Professor Cheng is also a leading authority in Operations Research. He was awarded the Doctor of Science (ScD) degree by the University of Cambridge, UK, for his distinguished research attainments in Scheduling Science. He was the first in PolyU to receive the Croucher Award (the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship) from The Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong, in 2001. Professor Cheng is ranked as the 6th among the world’s top 2% of scientists in Operations Research for career-long citation impact in 2022 according to an index compiled by Stanford University. According to Google Scholar, he has received over 58,000 citations with an h-index of 109.
A registered professional engineer and a seasoned management consultant, Professor Cheng plays an active role in advising business and industry on management issues and provides management and executive development training to organisations. He has over the years secured more than US$5 million in research funding from both public and private sectors to support his diverse research programmes.