Funded Projects
Here is a list of external grants that have recently been awarded to MS faculty in support of their research.
ECS = Early Career Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council
GRF = General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council
NSFC = National Natural Science Foundation of China
TRS = Theme-based Research Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Year 2020
Principal Investigator |
Grant Type |
Project Title |
Award Amount (in HK$, unless stated otherwise) |
Prof Frank Chen |
GRF |
New and Short-life-cycle Product Procurement Decisions: Machine Learning and Risk Control |
580,004 |
Dr Zhi Chen |
ECS |
The Hurwicz Criterion for Data-Driven Decision-Making under Uncertainty |
599,000 |
Prof David Li |
GRF |
Online Assortment Planning with Ranking-based Choice Models |
536,000 |
Prof Guangwu Liu |
GRF |
Machine Learning Methods for Portfolio Risk Measurement |
750,656 |
Dr Venus Lo |
ECS |
Multi-Stage Assortment Optimization for an Omnichannel Retailer |
460,000 |
Dr Zhankun Sun |
GRF |
Investigation of Patient Prioritization Behaviors in Hospital Emergency Departments |
651,380 |
Year 2019
Principal Investigator |
Grant Type |
Project Title |
Award Amount (in HK$, unless stated otherwise) |
Prof Frank Chen |
GRF |
On Demand Estimation and Newsvendor Ordering Decisions under Stockout-based Substitution |
492,954 |
Prof Kevin Chiang |
GRF |
Managing Product Differentiation and Cannibalization with Con-textual and Temporal Price-Quality Effects |
192,808 |
Prof Alan Wan |
GRF |
Statistical Inference After Model Averaging |
420,000 |
Prof Alan Wan |
NSFC |
模型平均方法在计量经济学和统计学中的新研究 |
RMB 500,000 |
Year 2018
Principal Investigator |
Grant Type |
Project Title |
Award Amount (in HK$, unless stated otherwise) |
Dr Gavin Feng |
ECS |
A Deep-Learning Approach in Asset-Pricing Anomalies |
373,349 |
Prof David Li |
GRF |
Robust Dual Sourcing with Two Spot Market Supplies |
449,100 |
Prof Guangwu Liu |
GRF |
Measuring the performance of simulation metamodel |
446,231 |
Dr Stephen Shum |
GRF |
Dynamic Sourcing Management with Quality Uncertainty and Consumer Learning |
530,985 |
Dr Yimin Yu |
GRF |
Robust Salesforce Compensation with Inventory Considerations |
385,200 |
Year 2017
Principal Investigator |
Grant Type |
Project Title |
Award Amount (in HK$, unless stated otherwise) |
Prof Guangwu Liu |
GRF |
A Likelihood Ratio Method for Nested Simulation |
449,599 |
Prof Ye Lu |
GRF |
Operational Impact of Stockout Service Level in Dynamic Inventory System |
385,778 |
Dr Zhankun Sun |
ECS |
Prediction and Optimal Control of Triage Nurse Ordering: A Data-Driven Approach to Improve Patient Flow in Hospital Emergency Departments |
483,340 |
Dr Geoffrey Tso |
GRF |
Operations-driven Analytics for Multifunctional Call Centres’ Outbound Services: Automated Workforce Performance Evaluation |
408,183 |
Prof Houmin Yan |
GRF |
Pricing Game for Customers with Performance-Price Ratio Utility: Theoretic Analysis and Empirical Calibration |
457,962 |
Year 2016
Principal Investigator |
Grant Type |
Project Title |
Award Amount (in HK$, unless stated otherwise) |
Dr William Chung |
GRF |
Approximate Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition for solving a class of variational inequality problems |
640,371 |
Prof Guangwu Liu |
GRF |
Joint Chance Constrained Programming: A Gradient Perspective |
558,790 |
Prof Ye Lu |
GRF |
Robust Price-setting Newsvendor Problem |
458,994 |
Dr Biying Shou |
GRF |
Social Network Effects in Retail Supply Chain Management |
520,000 |
Dr Stephen Shum |
GRF |
Inventory Management with Scarcity Effect and Lost-Sales |
655,525 |
Year 2015
Principal Investigator |
Grant Type |
Project Title |
Award Amount (in HK$, unless stated otherwise) |
Prof David Li |
GRF |
Blood Platelet Inventory Control for a Blood Center with Limited Supply |
525,000 |
Prof Ye Lu |
GRF |
K-approximate Convexity and Its Applications |
466,000 |
Dr Yimin Yu |
GRF |
Managing Capacitated Multi-Echelon Supply Chains |
351,600 |
Year 2014
Principal Investigator |
Grant Type |
Project Title |
Award Amount (in HK$, unless stated otherwise) |
Prof Frank Chen |
TRS |
Delivering 21st Century Healthcare in Hong Kong - Building a Quality-and-Efficiency Driven System |
20,450,000 |
Prof Frank Chen |
GRF |
On a Random Yield Problem with Non-zero Lead Times |
880,800 |
Prof Frank Chen |
NSFC |
面向經濟、社會和環境協調發展的物流系統基礎理論 |
|
Prof Kevin Chiang |
GRF |
Strategic Intertemporal Pricing with Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes for Efficient Product Evaluation, Learning and Adoption |
451,277 |
Prof Guangwu Liu |
GRF |
An Optimal Stopping Approach to Portfolio Risk Measurement |
451,959 |
Dr Stephen Shum |
GRF |
Just-in-Time, Cost Uncertainty and Strategic Customers |
331,702 |
Prof Alan Wan |
GRF |
Quantile Regression Analysis with Missing and Length-biased Data |
219,575 |
Prof Houmin Yan |
NSFC |
基於顧客選擇行為的團購商業運作模式與庫存優化研究 |
|
Dr Yimin Yu |
GRF |
Managing Perishable Food Processing Supply Chains |
378,789 |