1.Xuewei Li, Professor of management science at School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University.

2.Kecheng Liu, Professor of Applied Informatics at University of Reading, Director of Digital Talent Academy in Henley Business School, Fellow of British Computer Society and Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy.

3.Zhi-Chun Li, Professor, School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

4.Ying-En Ge, Professor, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Transportation Research Part D: Transport & Environment, College of Transportation Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

5.Max Zuojun Shen, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), Chair Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, University of Hong Kong (HKU), China. Chancellor's Professor, Co-Director of the TBSI Environment and New Energy Center, University of California, Berkeley, US

6.Francisco Saldanha da Gama, Professor, Departamento de Estatística e Investigação Operacional, Centro de Matemática, Aplicações Fundamentais e Investigação Operacional,Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

7.Martin Dresner, Professor, Chair of the Logistics, Business and Public Policy Department, R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA.

8.Hai Yang, Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

9.Paul Tae-Woo Lee, Director, Maritime Logistics and Free Trade Islands Research Centre, Ocean College, Zhejiang University.

10.Adolf K.Y. Ng, Professor, Faculty of Business and Management, BNU-HKBU United International College, China.

11.Bilotkach Volodymyr, Associate Professor in Aviation Management, Purdue University.

 

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Xuewei Li

Xuewei Li, Vice Chairman of Transportation Branch of China System Engineering Society, Professor of Beijing Jiaotong University, President of China Russia Jiaotong University Presidents Union (Chinese side), and President of Eurasian Association of Transportation Universities. In recent years, he led his team to make important achievements in key technologies of Big data, high-speed rail safety, intelligent transportation and other fields, and won the second prize of the 10th Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award. He has presided over more than 10 national and provincial and ministerial research Science Institute, and published more than 10 books. Besides, he has published over 60 papers in important journals and conferences, such as the Journal of Forecasting, Chinese Science Bullitin, Electronic Science, Chinese Soft Science, Quantitative and Technological Economics, Control and Decision Making.

 

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Kecheng Liu

Kecheng Liu, Fellow of British Computer Society and Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, is Professor of Applied Informatics at University of Reading, and also serves as Director of Digital Talent Academy in Henley Business School. In his various roles of academic lead, senior advisor and consultant, his industrial projects and business consulting experience spread in areas of business and IT strategies, information management, and digital leadership and transformation in public and private sectors. As a prominent researcher, he has published 300 papers in journals and conferences and 25 books in organisational semiotics, business and IT strategy alignment, intelligent spaces for working and living, and business informatics (e.g. big data analytics and AI for healthcare). He has extensive experience in management and leadership from the research project and centre, school to university level where he has been responsible for various aspects such as academic development, staffing, student experience, collaboration and outreach, strategic planning and execution in UK, Europe, China and beyond.

 

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Zhi-Chun Li

Zhi-Chun Li is a professor of Transport Operations in the Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China. He was awarded as Cheung Kong (Changjiang) Scholar from Ministry of Education China (2016) and Distinguished Young Researcher from NSFC (2015), respectively. His research interests include transportation modeling, transportation infrastructure investment decision, travel demand management, and public transportation. He is a recipient of the 2008 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of China, and of the 2009 New Century Excellent Talents in University of China, Ministry of Education of China. He is also a recipient of the 2009 HKSTS (Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies) Outstanding Dissertation Paper Award and Gordon Newell Memorial Prize. He has published over 70 SCI/SSCI journal papers in such journals as Transportation Research A-E, Transportation Science, Transportation, European Journal of Operational Research, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. 21 papers have been published in top journal Transportation Research Part B (TR-B). He is currently editorial advisory board members of Transportation Research Part E and International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (SSCI journal), and an Associate Editor of Transportmetrica B (SCI journal), Journal of Advanced transportation (SCI journal), and Transport Policy (SSCI journal). 

 

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Ying-En Ge

Dr Ying-En Ge, since September 2022, has been Professor of the College of Transportation Engineering at Chang’an University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. His primary academic interests include transport modeling and analysis, transport & environment, international transportation and logistics, and operations and management of ports & shipping. He worked in the Europe and in the USA for more than 10 years and currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief for Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment and Associate Editor of Transport and is a member of the editorial boards of International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Transport Policy, Maritime Transport Research, etc. He also served as associate editor for Maritime Policy & Management for 2018-2023. His research has been funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, NSF of China, Lloyd’s Register Foundation, etc. His publications appear mainly in Transportation Science, Transportation Research Parts A-E, Maritime Policy & Management, Networks and Spatial Economics, Transportmetrica, as so on.

 

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Max Zuojun Shen

Concurrent with his role as Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Professor Shen is appointed as Chair Professor jointly in the Faculty of Engineering (Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering) and the Faculty of Business and Economics. Professor Shen obtained his PhD from Northwestern University, USA in 2000. He started his academic career as Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the same year, and joined the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, where he rose through the academic ranks to become Chancellor's Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was also a Centre Director at the Tsinghua-Berkeley Institute in Shenzhen and an Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University, China. Professor Shen joined HKU in 2021. With research interests in the areas of logistics and supply chain management, data-driven decision making, and system optimization, Professor Shen's research programmes cut through businesses, energy systems, transportation systems, smart city, healthcare management, and environmental protection. He has worked closely with industries and has a strong track record of securing major research grants from government agencies and private companies. PhD students he graduated now hold positions in top universities in North America, Europe, and China as well as in leading technological companies worldwide. Internationally recognized as a top scholar in his field, Professor Shen is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the President-Elect of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and a past President of the Society of Locational Analysis of INFORMS.

 

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Francisco Saldanha da Gama

Francisco Saldanha da Gama is Chair in Supply Chain Management at Sheffield University Management School (UK). He has a large teaching experience both in terms of undergraduate and post-graduate programs focusing on the fields of Operations Research and decision making under uncertainty. He has published extensively in scientific international journals mostly in the areas of location analysis, supply chain management, logistics, and combinatorial optimization. He has co-edited the two editions of the “Location Science” volume published by Springer. He has presented more than 150 contributed talks at scientific events being invited to innumerable scientific events as a plenary/semi-plenary/keynote speaker. He has been awarded several prizes and honors. He is a member of various international scientific organizations such as the INFORMS, the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization, the Working Group on Stochastic Optimization, and the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis of which he is one of the past coordinators. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Operations Research as well as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the Operational Research Society (UK), Operations Research Perspectives, Algorithms, and Social Sciences & Humanities. His research interests include supply chain management, Logistics, decision-making under uncertainty, and project scheduling.

 

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Martin Dresner

Martin Dresner has served on the faculty of the University of Maryland’s R.H. Smith School of Business since 1988 where he is Professor and Chair of the Logistics, Business and Public Policy Department. He has two areas of research, air transport policy and supply chain management. Professionally, Dresner is Chair of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) and is on the Scientific and Steering Committees of the World Conference of Transportation Research Society (WCTRS). He serves as Senior Editor for the Journal of Business Logistics.

 

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Hai Yang

Prof. Hai Yang is currently a Chair Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is internationally known as an active scholar in the field of transportation, with more than 300 papers published in SCI/SSCI indexed journals and a SCI H-index citation rate of 69. Most of his publications appeared in leading international journals, such as Transportation Research, Transportation Science and Operations Research. Prof. Yang received a number of national and international awards, including 2020 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award and 2021 Francis C. Turner Award of American Society of Civil Engineers; National Natural Science Award bestowed by the State Council of PR China (2011). He was appointed as Chang Jiang Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education of PR China and served as the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research (TR) Part B: Methodological from 2013 to 2018, a prestigious journal in the field of transportation. Currently, Professor Yang serves on the Distinguished Editorial Board of TR Part B, Scientific Council of TR Part C: Emerging Technologies, and serves as an Advisory Editor of Transportation Science.

 

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Paul Tae-Woo Lee

Paul Tae-Woo Lee is a Professor of Maritime Transport and Logistics and the Director of the Maritime Logistics and Free Trade Islands Research Centre at Ocean College, Zhejiang University. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Cardiff University in the UK. He was Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Economics and Politics in the University of Cambridge, including eight universities worldwide. He completed container and LNG shipping and port projects in tandem with financing for four countries, serving advisory jobs for their governments. Paul is also a regular speaker at APEC, UNESCAP, and UNDP. Since the inception of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, he has been a well-known invited speaker at international conferences, fora, and seminars on the BRI. Paul has published nine books and approximately 250 papers and edited 30 special issues of journals, including 12 issues on the BRI. He was a monthly columnist of Lloyd’s List for four years and served the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) since its inception in 1992 as Co-opt Vice President and Secretary-General. Professor Lee is a founding member of the Global Research Network-BRI (GRN-BRI, 2021).

 

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Adolf K.Y. Ng

Adolf K.Y. Ng, China’s State Specially Recruited Expert, is a Professor in BNU-HKBU United International College (UIC), China. Also, he is the Acting Dean of UIC’s Faculty of Business and Management. Obtaining DPhil from the University of Oxford, his research interests include port management, transport geography, supply chain resilience, climate adaptation planning, institutional and organizational change, and global value chains. His works are highly influential. In 2021, he was included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists conducted by Stanford University. He is an Associate Editor of the leading journal in maritime studies, Maritime Policy & Management, the Editor-in-Chief of The Maritime Economist, the official magazine of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), and a Founding Member of the international consortium on resilient transport and supply chain networks ‘CCAPPTIA’ (www.ccapptia.com).

 

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Bilotkach Volodymyr

Dr Volodymyr Bilotkach is an Associate Professor in Aviation Management with Purdue University’s School of Aviation and Transportation Technology. An accomplished scholar with internationally visible research profile, he has written a book “Economics of Airlines” and published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr Bilotkach’s research spans a number of issues in the economics, regulation and policy of the aviation sector. He is a Co-Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Air Transport Management; Editorial Board member at Transport Policy, Research in Transportation Economics, and the Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research. Dr Bilotkach is also Chair of the Advisory Board of Aviation Studies Institute, jointly established by the Singapore University of Technology and Design and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore.Dr Bilotkach has previously held academic positions in the USA, United Kingdom and Singapore, and short-term appointments in Ukraine, Germany, South Korea, and Japan. He has been involved in consulting projects in the Netherlands (advising the Dutch Government on market power of Schiphol Airport); South Korea (consulting Incheon International Airport on its expansion plans); and Malaysia (as an advisor to Malaysian Aviation Commission), among others. Dr Bilotkach is an External Instructor with IATA Training, through which he delivered over 20 intensive courses in eleven different countries. He also contributes to the Executive Education programs run by the Singapore Aviation Academy. Dr Bilotkach holds Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Arizona, as well as B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine

 

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