Seminars in 2017/2018

SEEM047

Title	Joint Seminars
Date	22 JUN 2018 (Fri)
Time	2:00pm - 3:30pm
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Mr. Tahir Mahmood / Mr. Xiaolin Wang / Mr. Xiujie Zhao (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM046

Title	Applications of Big Data & AI for Health and Healthcare
Date	21 JUN 2018 (Thu)
Time	2:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Tong Chen (Chief Health Officer, IBM Greater China)

SEEM045

Title	Efficient Ascending Menu Auctions with Budget Constrained Bidders
Date	29 JUN 2018 (Fri)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7510, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Zaifu Yang (Professor, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, United Kingdom)

SEEM044

Title	Optimizing HIV Interventions for Multiplex Social Networks via Partition-based Random Search
Date	25 JUN 2018 (Mon)
Time	10:30am - 11:30am
Venue	P7510, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Ms. Lu ZHONG (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM043

Title	An Overview on the Quantification Strategies of Human Error Probability in HRA Methods
Date	01 AUG 2018 (Wed)
Time	10:30am - 11:30am
Venue	P7301, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Xing Pan (Associate Professor, School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, China)

SEEM042

Title	Solving Business Problems with SAS Analytics and Optimization
Date	26 JUN 2018 (Tue)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Yan Xu (Director, Numerical Optimization team, SAS Institute Inc.)

SEEM041

Title	Sometimes, a Black Swan Ain't So Black: Three analytical observations motivating the need for careful government regulation of safety-critical protective systems
Date	28 MAY 2018 (Mon)
Time	10:00am - 11:30am
Venue	P7510, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Martin A. Wortman (Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA)

SEEM040

Title	Operational Data Exploration for Aircraft Health Monitoring
Date	04 JUN 2018 (Mon)
Time	10:30am - 11:30am
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Xi Chen (Senior Engineer, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Civil Aircraft Health Monitoring, COMAC)

SEEM039

Title	Revenue Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Date	22 JUN 2018 (Fri)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7510, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Xin Chen (Professor, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

SEEM038

Title	Mediation Analysis: the Relationship between Safety Climate and Safety Performance among Hong Kong Construction Management Personnel with Technology Acceptance as a Mediator
Date	29 MAY 2018 (Tue)
Time	10:30am - 11:30am
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Mr. Siu Shing MAN (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM037

Title	MCMC Methods for Dynamic Stochastic Optimization
Date	20 JUN 2018 (Wed)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	Peter Ho Lecture Theatre (LT-10), 4/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. John R. Birge (Jerry W. and Carol Lee Levin Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA)

SEEM036

Title	Matching with Myopic and Farsighted Players
Date	01 JUN 2018 (Fri)
Time	3:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Jean-Jacques Herings (Professor of Microeconomics, Department of Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

SEEM035

Title	Real World Big Data Usages for Transportation and Logistics
Date	16 MAY 2018 (Wed)
Time	10:30am - 11:30am
Venue	P7510, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Mr. Gareth Chan (Sales Director, Splunk HKG and Macau)

SEEM034

Title	Joint Seminars
Date	16 MAY 2018 (Wed)
Time	3:00pm - 5:00pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Andy CC Tan

SEEM033

Title	A Smart Initialization on the Swarm Intelligence Based Method for Efficient Search of Optimal Minimum Energy Design
Date	22 JUN 2018 (Fri)
Time	10:30am - 11:30am
Venue	P7510, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Frederick Kin Hing Phoa (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

SEEM032

Title	Exploring Population Heterogeneity: A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach
Date	31 MAY 2018 (Thu)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Mingyang Li (Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of South Florida, USA)

SEEM031

Title	Data-driven optimization in dynamic inventory control
Date	23 MAY 2018 (Wed)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Xiuli Chao (Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

SEEM030

Title	Statistical inference for sample average approximation of constrained optimization and variational inequalities
Date	15 MAY 2018 (Tue)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Shu Lu (Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

SEEM029

Title	Solving Stochastic Programs and Validating Systems for Scenario Creation
Date	09 MAY 2018 (Wed)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. David Woodruff (Professor, Graduate School of Management, University of California Davis, USA)

SEEM028

Title	Adaptive Planning Using Sensor Data
Date	18 APR 2018 (Wed)
Time	10:30am - 12:00noon
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Jos van Hillegersberg (Head, Department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems, University of Twente, The Netherlands)

SEEM027

Title	Stochastic Processes in Repairable Systems
Date	23 APR 2018 (Mon)
Time	2:15pm - 4:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Masaaki Kijima (Dean, School of Informatics and Data Science, Hiroshima University, Japan)

SEEM026

Title	Gender Composition Mediates Social Facilitation Effect in Co-action Condition
Date	03 May 2018 (Thu)
Time	10:30am - 12:00noon
Venue	P7301, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Ruifeng Yu (Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China)

SEEM025

Title	The PVAD Algorithm to Learn Partial-Value Variable Associations
Date	17 APR 2018 (Tue)
Time	10:30am - 11:30am
Venue	P7510, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Nong Ye (Professor, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, USA)

SEEM024

Title	The Inmate Assignment and Scheduling Problem and its Application in the PA Department of Corrections
Date	15 MAR 2018 (Thu)
Time	4:00pm - 5:00pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Tamás Terlaky (George N. and Soteria Kledaras '87 Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, USA)

SEEM023

Title	Advanced Machine Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis
Date	16 MAR 2018 (Fri)
Time	11:00am - 12:00noon
Venue	P7311, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Tian Ran Lin (Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, China)

SEEM022 (Cancelled)

Title	Multi-View Intelligent Data Fusion in Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems
Date	16 MAR 2018 (Fri)
Time	10:30am - 11:30am
Venue	P7510, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Iván Palomares Carrascosa (Lecturer in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, School of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Engineering Maths, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

SEEM021

Title	From Cleaner Production to Sustainable Smart Manufacturing
Date	16 MAR 2018 (Fri)
Time	4:00pm - 5:00pm
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Yang LIU (Associate Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden)

SEEM020

Title	SUBPRO project and recent studies on safety barriers
Date	23 FEB 2018 (Fri)
Time	10:30am - 11:30am
Venue	P7510, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Yiliu LIU (Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial, Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway)

SEEM019

Title	Matching and Commission in On-Demand Sharing Transportation
Date	23 JAN 2018 (Tue)
Time	2:00pm - 3:00pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Hai WANG (Assistant Professor, Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore)

SEEM018

Title	An enriched approach to predictive modeling combining high-dimensional and low-dimensional predictors
Date	5 JAN 2018 (Fri)
Time	11:00am - 12:00noon
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Javier Cabrera (Professor, Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Rutgers University, USA)

SEEM017

Title	Step Response Based Identification of Hammerstein Models: Application to Mach number Drift in an Intermittent Wind Tunnel
Date	29 DEC 2017 (Fri)
Time	11:00am - 12:00noon
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Mr. Jian Zhang (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM016

Title	Analysis of non-reversible Markov chains
Date	28 DEC 2017 (Thu)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Michael Choi (Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong)

SEEM015

Title	Approximation Algorithms for Product Framing and Pricing
Date	20 DEC 2017 (Wed)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Dr. Anran Li (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Industrial Engineering & Logistics Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

SEEM014

Title	Data Science; Statistically and Numerically Efficient Independence Test
Date	11 DEC 2017 (Mon)
Time	4:30pm - 5:30pm
Venue	G5-317, 5/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Speaker	Prof. Xiaoming Huo (Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

SEEM013

Title	Risk-adjusted control charts for monitoring surgical performance
Date	21 NOV 2017 (Tue)
Time	3:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Mr. Philipp Wittenberg (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Helmut Schmidt / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany)

SEEM012

Title	Synergistic Product Design & Operations Management: Opportunities & Barriers to Economic and Environmental Sustainability
Date	14 NOV 2017 (Tue)
Time	3:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Prof. Gül E. Kremer (Professor and C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. Therkildsen Department Chair, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, Iowa State University, USA)

SEEM011

Title	New Reinforcement Learning Structures for Real-Time Optimal Control and Differential Graphical Games: Applications to HRI and Industrial Process Control
Date	13 NOV 2017 (Mon)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Prof. Frank L. Lewis (Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair and Head, Advanced Controls & Sensors Group, UTA Research Institute (UTARI), The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

SEEM010

Title	1. Influence of Flavors on the Sharing of Electronic Cigarette Related Information: A Social Media Study 2. Model Predictive Control For The Flow Field In An Intermittent Transonic Wind Tunnel
Date	16 NOV 2017 (Thu)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Mr. Jiaqi ZHOU and Mr. Jian ZHANG (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM009

Title	Performance Measurement Systems in Virtual Enterprises
Date	10 NOV 2017 (Fri)
Time	11:00am - 12:00noon
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Prof. Anna Karmańska (Director, Institute of Accounting, The SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland) Prof. Irena Hejduk (Professor, Institute of Information Systems and Digital Economy, The SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)

SEEM008

Title	1. A Smooth Path-Following Algorithm for Market Equilibrium under a Class of Piecewise-Smooth Concave Utilities 2. A New Strategy For Subset Selection Using Optimal Computing Budget Allocation
Date	8 NOV 2017 (Wed)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Mr. Yang ZHAN and Mr. Fei GAO (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM007

Title	Distributionally Robust Shortfall Risk Optimization Model and Its Approximation
Date	10 NOV 2017 (Fri)
Time	3:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Prof. Huifu XU (Professor of Operational Research, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom)

SEEM006

Title	Service Operations Management for Engineers
Date	06 NOV 2017 (Mon)
Time	10:00am - 11:00am
Venue	G5-216, 5/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Prof. David BENNETT (Visiting Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Emeritus Professor, Aston University, United Kingdom)

SEEM005

Title	Hard Failure Prediction with Stochastic Degradation Signals Using the Wiener Process
Date	19 OCT 2017 (Thu)
Time	10:30am - 11:00am
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Ms Jianing MAN (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM004

Title	Wavelet-based Statistical Health Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis Method
Date	16 OCT 2017 (Mon)
Time	11:00am - 12:00noon
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Ms FAN Wei (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM003

Title	Optimal Robust and Tolerance Design for Computer Experiments with Mixture Proportion Inputs
Date	18 OCT 2017 (Wed)
Time	10:00am - 11:00am
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Ms HAN Mei (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM002

Title	Assessing solutions in global cold chain management amidst new e-commerce opportunities in China
Date	21 SEP 2017 (Thu)
Time	3:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue	P7303, 7/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Mr. Alfred CHEUNG S W (Adjunct Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)

SEEM001

Title	Assessing Availability-Based Prognostics and Health Management enabled Condition Based Maintenance Policy Using Discrete Event Simulation
Date	12 SEP 2017 (Tue)
Time	2:30pm - 3:30pm
Venue	B6619, 6/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1)
Speaker	Mr. OMOLEYE Taiwo Joel (PhD candidate, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong)