Academic Staff

Brief Biosketch

Sai-Ho Chung (Nick), Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Associate Head (also Associate Director of studies, IGDS) of the Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also serves as the Departmental Research Committee chairman. He obtained his MPhil. and Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong in 2004 and 2007 respectively. He joined in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, as a Lecturer in 2007 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019 and joined as the Associate Director of the Integrated Graduate Development Scheme Unit since 2018.

His research interests are in operations research (optimization and machine learning) in the field of aviation, logistics, supply chain management, manufacturing, and container terminal. He has published over 150 SCI journal papers, and his publications appear in Production and Operations Management, Transportation Research Part B/C/E, Decision Sciences, Risk Analysis, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE (SMC, TIE, EM, SJ), Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Computers and Operations Research, etc. Among the publications, the paper published in Risk Analysis was selected as the top paper by Risk Analysis, the media of the month by Society for Risk Analysis, and the top 0.1 paper in Almetric. In Google Scholar, he currently has over 9,000 citations with H-index 45. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetic: Systems, and Editorial Board members in Transportation Research Part E, Mathematics, and International Journal of Inventory Research. He also edited several special issues in SCI journals, e.g., TRE, IJPR, ANOR, IMDS.

He has obtained 2 patents and numerous research funding with a total amount of over HK$15M, including General Research Fund (GRF), Innovation Technologies Funds (ITF), PROCORE – France/Hong Kong Join Research Scheme, Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, Departmental Research grants, etc. He has successfully supervised over 20 PhD students, and the PhD graduated are now working in different universities as faculty members or research personnels over the world.

Teaching Areas

• Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Industrial Engineering; Information Systems; Data Mining and Business Intelligent

Research Areas

Operations Research (Optimization) related

• Airline crew scheduling; Aircraft maintenance routing; Aircraft positioning and scheduling in Hangar; Production scheduling; Production and distribution; Vehicle routing; Berth allocation, quay crane scheduling, and yard storage planning.

Operations Management related

• Supply chain channel; Supply chain platform; Supply chain finance.

Machine Learning (Data analytics and Imaging) related

• Flight delay prediction; Aircraft fuel consumption prediction; Elevator condition monitoring; Product defect detection.

Editorship of Journals

Associate Editor

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetic: Systems

Editorial Board Member

• Transportation Research Part E
• Mathematics
• International Journal of Inventory Research

Guest Editor

• Special Issue on Transportation Research Part E. Title: Logistics and Operations in Industry 5.0: Human-Machine Reconciles (2024)
• Special Issue on Annals of Operations Research. Title: Data Driven Operational Risk Management (2021)
• Special Issue on Annals of Operations Research. Title: Advanced Models for Supply Chain Finance (2020)
• Special Issue on International Journal of Production Research. Title: Energy Digitization in Manufacturing (2019)
• Special Issue on Transportation Research Part E. Title: Data Science and Analytics in Aviation (2018)
• Special Issue on Industrial Management and Data Systems. Title: Risk Perception & Decision Making in Supply Chain: Theory and Practice (2017)
• Special Issue on International Journal of Production Research. Title: Optimisation Approaches for Distributed Scheduling Problems (2011)

Publications (selected)

1. Xiaoyan Xu, Suresh P. Sethi, Sai-Ho Chung, Tsan-Ming Choi. Global Supply Chain Revolution: Achieving 3Rs with the "GREAT" Strategy. Management and Business Review. In press.
2. Yuxuan Wang, Waqar Ahmed Khan, Sai-Ho Chung. Few-shot Defect Detection of Catheter Products via Enlarged Scale Feature Pyramid and Contrastive Proposal Memory Bank. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatic. In press.
3. Kun Zhang, Tsan-Ming Choi, Sai-Ho Chung, Yue Dai, Xin Wen. Managing Product Returns with Blockchain Adoption: Stablecoins and Traceability. European Journal of Operational Research. In press.
4. Xiaoyan Xu, Suresh P. Sethi, Sai-Ho Chung, Tsan-Ming Choi. Ordering COVID-19 Vaccines for Social Welfare under Information Updating: Optimal Dynamic Order Policies and Vaccine Selection. IISE Transactions. 56(7): 729-745, 2024.
5. Xiaoyan Xu, Tsan-Ming Choi, Sai-Ho Chung, Bin Shen. Government Subsidies and Policies for Mask Production under COVID-19: Is It Wise to Control Less? IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 71: 3172-3188, 2024.
6. Qing Zhang, Sai-Ho Chung, Hoi-Lam Ma, Xuting Sun. Robust Aircraft Maintenance Routing with Heterogenous Aircraft Maintenance Tasks. Transportation Research Part C – Emerging Technologies. 160: 104518, 2024.
7. Xiaoyan Xu, Suresh P. Sethi, Sai-Ho Chung, Tsan-Ming Choi. Reforming Global Supply Chain Management under Pandemics: The GREAT-3Rs Framework. Production and Operations Management. 32, 524-546, 2023.
8. Xiaoyan Xu, Sai-Ho Chung, Chris K.Y. Lo, Andy C.L. Yeung. Sustainable Supply Chain Management with NGOs, NPOs, and Charity Organizations: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda. Transportation Research Part E – Logistics and Transportation Review. 164: 102822, 2022.
9. Sai-Ho Chung. A Review of Smart Technologies Applications on Logistics and Transport. Transportation Research Part E – Logistics and Transportation Review. 153: 102455, 2021.
10. Shu Guo, Tsan-Ming Choi, Sai-Ho Chung. Self-Design Fun: Should 3D Printing Be Employed in Mass Customization Operations? European Journal of Operational Research. 299(3): 883-897, 2021.
11. Waqar Ahmed Khan, Hoi-Lam Ma, Sai-Ho Chung, Xin Wen. Hierarchical Integrated Machine Learning Model for Predicting Flight Departure Delays and Duration in Series. Transportation Research Part C – Emerging Technologies. 129: 103225, 2021.
12. T. M. Choi, Sai-Ho Chung, X. Zhuo. Pricing with Risk Sensitive Competing Container Shipping Lines: Will Risk Seeking Do More Good Than Harm? Transportation Research Part B – Methodology. (133): 210-229, 2020
13. Sai-Ho Chung, H.L. Ma, M. Hansen, T.M. Choi. Data Science and Analytics in Aviation. Transportation Research Part E – Logistics and Transportation Review. 134: 101837, 2020.
14. Xuting Sun, Sai-Ho Chung, Tsan-Ming Choi, Jiuh-Biing Sheu, Hoi-Lam Ma. Combating Lead-time Uncertainty in Global Supply Chain’s Shipment-assignment: Is It Wise to be Risk-averse? Transportation Research Part B – Methodology. 138: 406-434, 2020.
15. X. Sun, Sai-Ho Chung, H.L. Ma. Operational Risk in Airline Crew Scheduling: Do Features of Flight Delays Matter? Decision Sciences. 51(6): 1455-1489, 2020.
16. X. Wen, X. Xu, T.M. Choi, Sai-Ho Chung. Optimal Pricing Decisions of Competing Air-Cargo-Carrier Systems – Impacts of Risk Aversion, Demand and Cost Uncertainties. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 50(12): 4933-4947, 2020.
17. H.K. Chan, X. Sun, Sai-Ho Chung. When Should Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process be Used rather than Analytic Hierarchy Process? Decision Support Systems. 125, 113114, 2019.
18. T.M. Choi, X. Wen, X. Sun, Sai-Ho Chung. The Mean-variance Approach for Global Supply Chain Risk Analysis with Air Logistics in the Blockchain Technology Era. Transportation Research Part E – Logistics and Transportation Review. 127: 178-191, 2019.
19. X. Wen, T.M. Choi, Sai-Ho Chung. Fashion Retail Supply Chain Management: A Review of Operational Models. International Journal of Production Economics. 207: 34-55, 2019.
20. Sai-Ho Chung, H.L. Ma, H.K. Chan. Cascading Delay Risk of Airline Workforce Deployments with Crew-Pairing and Schedule Optimization. Risk Analysis. 37(8): 1443-1458, 2017.
21. Sai-Ho Chung, T.K. Tse, T.M. Choi. Managing Disruption Risk in Express Logistics via Proactive Planning. Industrial Management and Data Systems. 115(8): 1481-1509, 2015.
22. Sai-Ho Chung, H.K. Chan. A Two-level Genetic Algorithm to Determine Production Frequencies for Economic Lot-scheduling Problem. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronic. 59(1): 611-619, 2012.