Youhua (Frank) Chen [陳友華] is Chair Professor of Management Science at City University of Hong Kong. His current research projects span from healthcare and service systems, logistics/supply chains, to machine learning applications in operations. As Project Coordinator, he has just completed a Theme-based Research Project in healthcare management (2014-2019, $20.4M) and is current leading another large project of similar scale(see below). Prof Chen holds a bachelor degree in Engineering, master degree in Economics, and doctoral degree in Management from Tsinghua University (Beijing), the University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto, respectively. After finishing his PhD, he went to Northwestern University as a post-doc fellow (9/1996-6/1997). Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong, Prof. Chen was on the faculty of NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (7/1997-6/2001) and the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2001-2012), respectively. Courses which Prof. Chen taught in NUS include Operations Management and Supply Chain Management, at both undergraduate and MBA levels. He was also actively involved in executive teaching (EDP and EMBA). At CUHK, he taught Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and served as the deputy director and director for the Executive Master of Science Program (EMSc) in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, a joint program with Tsinghua University (Shenzhen). Prof. Chen has also been involved in consulting projects in the area of supply chain management and logistics. He was Head of Deparment of Management Scineces (1.2013 - 6.2020) and Dean briefly (7.2020-8.2021).管理科學講座教授。曾任管理科學系主任（2013-2020）， 也担任过院長（7.2020-8.2021）。 清華大學工程本科，加拿大滑鐵盧大學經濟學碩士，多倫多大學管理學博士。曾任教於新加坡國立大學與香港中文大學，擔任過香港中文大學-清華大學高級管理人員物流和供應鏈管理碩士課程主任。主授供應鏈及運營管理課程，參與物流和供應鏈管理專案諮詢。研究興趣包括醫療/服務系統，物流/供應鏈管理， 及機器學習在運營中的應用。由他牽頭主持的醫院系統管理研究專案於2014年獲得香港研究資助局支持（2014-2019， 主題研究計畫/2千萬, 已結題）, 目前主持中國銀行（香港）贊助的大型項目“頤年在家：家居護理新模式”（11.2020-5.2025)-RMGS。 另外，他也同時負責城大團隊與中科院等單位合作，承擔一項國家自然科學基金會關於中國物流發展的重大專案 (2019 結題）。 陳教授2024年10月被授予華為供應鏈管理名譽首席專家。