Academic Staff

Brief Biosketch

Dr. Wen received her PhD from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019, her MSc from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2014, and her Bachelor degree from Sichuan University in 2013. She is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Wen’s research interests include Aviation Operations, Airline Scheduling, Air Logistics, and Logistics Engineering & Supply Chain Management. Dr. Wen is the PI of a list of research grants including RGC(Hong Kong) General Research Fund and National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has rich publication experiences in prestigious journals like Transportation Research Part A/B/C/E, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, IEEE Transactions (e.g., IEEE-TEM, IEEE-TITS, IEEE-SMCS), Journal of Air Transport Management, International Journal of Production Economics, and International Journal of Production Research. Some recent publications are:

Some recent Publications

1. Wen, X., Chung, S.H., Choi, T.M., & Fu, X. (2024). Airline cabin crew pairing with accurate characterization of cross-class substitution: A branch-and-price approach. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 190, 103084.

2. Zhang, K., Choi, T.M., Chung, S.H., Dai, Y., & Wen, X.^* (2023). Blockchain adoption in retail operations: Stablecoins and traceability. European Journal of Operational Research, 315(1), 147-160.

3. Wen, X., Chung, S.H., Ma, H.L.^*, Khan, W. A. (2023). Airline crew scheduling with sustainability enhancement by data analytics under circular economy. Annals of Operations Research, available online.

4. Wen, X., Chung, S.-H., Ji, P., & Sheu, J.-B. (2022). Individual scheduling approach for multi-class airline cabin crew with manpower requirement heterogeneity. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 163, 102763.

5. Wen, X., Sun, X.^*, Ma, H.L., & Sun, Y. (2022). A Column Generation approach for operational flight scheduling and aircraft maintenance routing. Journal of Air Transport Management, 105, 102270.

6. Wen, X., Sun, Y., Ma, H.L.^*, Chung, S.H. (2022). Green smart manufacturing: Energy-efficient robotic job shop scheduling models. International Journal of Production Research, available online.

7. Li, Y., Wen, X.^*, Choi, T.M., Chung, S.H. (2022). Optimal establishments of massive testing programs to combat COVID-19: A perspective of parallel-machine Scheduling-location (ScheLoc) problem. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, available online.

8. Wen, X., Sun, X.^*, Sun, Y., & Yue, X. (2021). Airline crew scheduling: Models and algorithms. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 149, 102304.

9. Wen, X., Ma, H.L.^*, Chung, S.H., Khan, W. (2020). Robust airline crew scheduling with flight flying time variability. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 144, 102132.

10. Wen, X., Xu, X., Choi, T.M.^*, & Chung, S.H. (2020). 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.