Professor Tianyou Chai
Tianyou Chai (Life Fellow, IEEE, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering) received a PhD degree in control theory and engineering from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1985. He became a Professor at Northeastern University in 1988. He is currently the Founder and Director of the Center of Automation, which became a State Key Laboratory. He has authored and co-authored 297 peer-reviewed international journal papers. His current research interests include modelling, control, optimisation and integrated automation of complex industrial processes. Dr. Chai is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and IFAC Fellow. He was the recipient of five prestigious awards of National Natural Science, National Science and Technology Progress, and National Technological Innovation, the 2007 Industry Award for Excellence in Transitional Control Research from IEEE Multiple-conference on Systems and Control, and the 2017 Wook Hyun Kwon Education Award from Asian Control Association.
Professor Guangren Duan
Guangren Duan (Fellow, IEEE, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) received a PhD degree in control systems sciences from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1989, after two years of post-doctoral experience at the Harbin Institute of Technology, where he became a Professor of control systems theory in 1991. He is currently the Founder and the Honorary Director of the Center for Control Theory and Guidance Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology. Recently, he is also in charge of the Center for Control Science and Technology, at the Southern University of Science and Technology. He visited the University of Hull, The University of Sheffield, and the Queen’s University of Belfast, U.K., from December 1996 to October 2002. He is the author or co-author of five books and over 400 SCI-indexed publications. His main research interests include parametric control systems design, non-linear systems, descriptor systems, spacecraft control, and magnetic bearing control. He has served as a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Chinese Ministry of Education. He is also an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of CAA and IET. He served as the Vice President for the Control Theory and Applications Committee, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA); and an associate editor for a few international journals.
Associate Professor Dr Ellen Hidemi Fukuda
Ellen Hidemi Fukuda received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science, followed by a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics, all from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan. Her research interests include the development of theories and methods for continuous optimisation, particularly in the areas of conic optimisation and multiobjective optimisation, as well as applications of optimisation in wireless communications. She is a pioneer in the field of descent methods for multiobjective optimisation. She has received several awards, including the Research Award for Young Researchers by the Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ). She currently serves as an associate editor for the journal Computational Optimisation and Applications. She is a member of SIAM, MOS, JSIAM, and ORSJ, serving on the steering committee and as an executive secretary for ORSJ, as well as acting as a faculty advisor at a SIAM student chapter.
Professor Stefan Wolfgang Pickl
Stefan Wolfgang Pickl is a Fellow of the German Academy of Technology and the Chair Professor for Operations Research at Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany. He studied mathematics and electrical engineering, focusing on Complex System Analysis and Philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt and EPFL Lausanne from 1987 to 1993. He then received Diplom-Ingenieur in 1993 (equivalent to Master of Science in Engineering) and a doctorate with an award in 1998. He was an Assistant Professor at Cologne University and received Dr. habil. in 2005 with venia legendi “Mathematics.” He was also a Visiting Professor at several universities, like the University of New Mexico (USA), the University Graz (Austria), the University of California at Berkeley (USA), and the Naval Postgraduate School NPS Monterey (USA). Other than that, he was a Visiting Scientist at SANDIA, Los Alamos National Lab, Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems, and MIT. He is also associated with WHO – Healthcare Management Program UCF USA. Currently, Professor Stefan is the Chair Professor for Operations Research at Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany. He is also the Director of the Research Group COMTESSA (Core Competence Center C3 for Operations Research, Management - Tenacity - Excellence, Safety and Security ALLIANCE). Vice-Director of the German Society for Operations Research (GOR) working group “Simulation and Optimisation of Complex Systems” and Distinguished Member of Munich Aerospace, House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM). He has published 10 books, 39 contributions to books, and more than 200 refereed articles. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization. He is an Editor for the Special Edition 2020 on COVID-19 in OR News: das Magazin der GOR and Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020.
Associate Professor Dr Chou Cheng-Feng, Mabel
Mabel C. Chou is an Associate Professor in the Analytics and Operations Department and the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (IORA) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research focuses on Operations Scheduling and Supply Chain Analysis, for which she develops mathematical models, algorithms, and managerial insights to address practical problems faced by firms and managers in the field of logistics and supply chain management. Her current research interest is in the development and application of optimisation tools and business analytics for operations and marketing interface, supply chain resilience, maritime operations, and sustainable operations management issues. She is an associate editor for Operations Research, a senior editor for Production and Operations Management and an associate editor for the Pacific Journal of Optimization. She has also consulted for companies such as Unilever, GSK, Caterpillar, P&G, SIA Engineering Company, National University Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Lenovo, Supreme Components International, etc. and conducted courses for 3M, the Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific, and the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology.
Professor Defeng Sun
Professor Defeng Sun is currently Chair Professor of Applied Optimization and Operations Research at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the President of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society. He mainly publishes in non-convex continuous optimization and machine learning. Together with Professor Kim-Chuan Toh and Dr Liuqin Yang, he was awarded the triennial 2018 Beale--Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming by the Mathematical Optimization Society. He served as editor-in-chief of Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research from 2011 to 2013 and he now serves as associate editor of Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Journal of the Operations Research Society of China, Journal of Computational Mathematics, and Science China: Mathematics. In 2020, he was elected as a Fellow of the societies CSIAM and SIAM and in 2021 he has received the Distinguished Collaborator Award from both the Hong Kong Research Center and Huawei Noah's Ark Lab for the contributions on developing efficient and robust techniques for solving huge scale linear programming models arising from production planning and supply chain logistics. In 2022, he received the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme award.
