Prof. Z. Max Shen
Innovation and Information Management

Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Chair Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
maxshen@hku.hk
KB 1040


Biography
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. 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.
Research Interest
Integrated Supply Chain Design and Management
Data Driven Logistics and Supply Chain Optimization
Design and Analysis of Optimization Algorithms
Energy Systems Optimization
Transportation System Planning
Professional Activities and Awards
Associate editor for Operations Research
Associate editor for Management Science
Associate editor for MSOM
Associate editor for Naval Research Logistics
Associate editor for IIE Transactions
Associate editor for Journal Omega
Associate editor for Decision Sciences
Department editor for Production and Operations Management
Department editor for Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research
Editorial Board, International Journal of Inventory Research
Editorial Advisory Board, Computers & Operations Research
President-elect, the?Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
CAREER Award from NSF (2003)
The Franz Edelman Laureate (2018)
INFORMS Fellow?(2018)
Journal Publications
Journal Publications
Google Scholar Profile
Books
Fundamentals of Supply Chain Theory, co-authored with?Larry Snyder, was published by Wiley in August, 2011.
Integrated Modeling for Location Analysis, co-authored with Ho-Yin Mak, Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management.?Download the book
Handbook of Supply Chain Analysis in the E-Business Era?(Springer)