Dr. Ling Man Ho Alpha
Associate Professor
2948 7815
D3-2/F-22
amhling@eduhk.hk
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Profile

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Education
Ph.D., McMaster University
Thesis Title: Inference for One-Shot Device Testing Data (Advisor: Prof. N. Balakrishnan)
M.Phil., Hong Kong Baptist University
Thesis Title: Full Friendly Index Sets of Cartesian Product of Two Cycles (Advisors: Dr. W.C. Shiu and Prof. M.L. Tang)
B.Sc. in Mathematics & Statistics, Hong Kong Baptist University
Employment
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, The Education University of Hong Kong, since Jul 2015?
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Aug 2013 - Jun 2015
Research Fellow, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The City University of Hong Kong, Apr 2013 – July 2013
Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The City University of Hong Kong, Aug 2012 – Mar 2013.
Research Interests

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Lifetime data analysis in reliability & survival studies
Degradation data analysis
Statistical inference under censoring
Statistical computing
Selected Outputs

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Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
Ling, M.H., Ng, H.K.T., Tsui, K.L. (2017). Inference on remaining useful life under gamma degradation models with random effects. Chen, Ding-Geng, Lio, Yuhlong, Ng, Hon Keung Tony, Tsai, Tzong-Ru, Statistical Modeling for Degradation Data (253-266). Singapore: Springer.
Poon, L. K. M., Kong, S. C., Yau, T. S. H., Wong, M., & Ling, M. H. (2017). Learning analytics for monitoring students’ participation online: Visualizing navigational patterns on learning management system. In S. K. Cheung, L.-F. Kwok, W. W. Ma, L.-K. Lee, & H. Yang (Eds.), Blended Learning. New Challenges and Innovative Practices. ICBL 2017. LNCS, vol 10309 (pp. 166-176). Cham: Springer.
Balakrishnan, N., Ling, M.H., So, H.Y. (2016). Constant-stress accelerated life-test models and data analysis for one-shot devices. Fiondella, L., Puliafito, A., Principles of Performance and Reliability Modeling and Evaluation (77-108). Switzerland: Springer.
Journal Publications
Ling, M.H., Chan, P.S., Ng, H.K.T., Balakrishnan, N. (2020). Copula models for one-shot device testing data with correlated failure modes.?Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, accepted, 1-10.
Ling, M.H., Hu, X.W. (2020). Optimal design of simple step-stress accelerated life test for one-shot devices under Weibull distributions.?Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 193, 1-10.
Hsu, M.H.K., Ling, M.H (2019). Nursing students' attitudes towards older people and future career choices in Macao - A Pilot Study. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 9, 10-19.
Ling, M.H., Ng, H.K.T., Tsui, K.L. (2019). Bayesian and likelihood inferences on remaining useful life in two-phase degradation models under gamma process. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 184, 77-85.
Hsu, M.H.K., Ling, M.H., Lui, T.L. (2019). Relationship between gerontological nursing education and attitudes toward older people. Nurse Education Today, 74, 85-90.
Ling, M.H. (2019). Optimal design of simple step-stress accelerated life test for one-shot devices under exponential distributions. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 33, 121-135.
Ng, H.K.T., Ling, M.H., Chan, P.S. (2018). A gamma process modeling approach for comparison of dissolution profiles. Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, 44, 553-562.
Ling, M.H., Balakrishnan, N. (2017). Model mis-specification analyses of Weibull and gamma models for one-shot device testing data. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 66, 641-650.
Ling, M.H., Wong, S.Y., Tsui, K.L. (2017). Efficient heterogeneous sampling for stochastic simulation with an illustration in healthcare applications. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, 46, 631-639.
Shen, X.B., Wong, S.Y., Ling, M.H., Goldsman, D., Tsui, K.L. (2016). Comparison of algorithms to simulate disease transmission. Journal of Simulation, 11, 285-294.
Balakrishnan, N., So, H.Y., Ling, M.H. (2016). A Bayesian approach for one-shot device testing with exponential lifetimes under competing risks. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 65, 469-485.
Ling, M.H., Ng, H.K.T., Chan, P.S., Balakrishnan, N. (2016). Autopsy data analysis for a series system with active redundancy under a load-sharing model. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 65, 957-968.
Ling, M.H., So, H.Y., Balakrishnan, N. (2016). Likelihood inference under proportional hazards model for one-shot device testing. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 65, 446-458.
Balakrishnan, N., So, H.Y., Ling, M.H. (2016). EM algorithm for one-shot device testing with competing risks under Weibull distribution. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 65, 973-991.
Ling, M.H., Tsui, K.L., Balakrishnan, N. (2015). Accelerated degradation analysis for the quality of a system based on the gamma process. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 64, 463-472.
Balakrishnan, N., So, H.Y., Ling, M.H. (2015). EM algorithm for one-shot device testing with competing risks under exponential distribution. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 137, 129-140.
Balakrishnan, N., Ling, M.H. (2014). Best constant-stress accelerated life-test plans with multiple stress factors for one-shot device testing under Weibull distribution. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 63, 944-952.
Hui Yang; Kundakcioglu, E. ; Jing Li ; Wu, T. ; Mitchell, J.R. ; Hara, A.K. ; Pavlicek, W. ; Hu, L.S. ; Silva, A.C. ; Zwart, C.M. ; Tunc, S. ; Alagoz, O. ; Burnside, E. ; Chaovalitwongse, W.A. ; Presnyakov, G. ; Cao, Y. ; Sujitnapitsatham, S. ; Daehan Won ; Madhyastha, T. ; Weaver, K.E. ; Borghesani, P.R. ; Grabowski, T.J. ; Lianjie Shu ; Man Ho Ling ; Shui-Yee Wong ; Kwok-Leung Tsui (2014). Healthcare intelligence: turning data into knowledge. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 29(3), 54-68.
Balakrishnan, N., Ling, M.H. (2014). Gamma lifetimes and one-shot device testing analysis. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 126, 54-64.
Balakrishnan, N., Ling, M.H. (2013). Expectation maximization algorithm for one shot device accelerated life testing with Weibull lifetimes, and variable parameters over stress. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 62, 537-551.
Balakrishnan, N., Ling, M.H. (2012). Multiple-stress model for one-shot device testing data under exponential distribution. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 61, 809-821.
Balakrishnan, N., Ling, M.H. (2012). EM algorithm for one-shot devices testing under the exponential distribution. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 56, 502-509.
Shiu, W.C., Ling, M.H. (2010). Full friendly index sets of Cartesian products of two cycles. Acta Mathematica Sinica-English Series, 26, 1233-1244.
Tang, M.L., Ling, M.H., Ling, L., Tian, G.L. (2010). Confidence intervals for a difference between proportions based on paired data. Statistics in Medicine, 29, 86-96.
Tang, M.L., Ling, M.H., Tian, G.L. (2009). Exact and approximate unconditional confidence intervals for proportion difference in the presence of incomplete data. Statistics in Medicine, 28, 625-641.
Shiu, W.C., Ling, M.H., Low, R.M. (2008). The edge-graceful spectra of connected bicyclic graphs without pendant. Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 66, 171-185.
Research Projects

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Automatic Assessment Score Analysis?
The project creates Automatic Assessment Score Analysis (AASA) software to analyze properly scores of test questions, essays, etc. AASA requires zero statistics/computer knowledge and uses teachers’ existing data on their students’ scores. AASA appli . . .
Project Start Year : 2019? Chief Investigator(s) : CHIU, Ming Ming ??(Dr LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪 as Co-Investigator)
Developing Item Response Models with Copula Models for Data with Local Item Dependence
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Project Start Year : 2019? Chief Investigator(s) : LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪
Enhancing Students’ Mathematics Learning through Instructional STEM Activities with Mathematical Modeling
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Project Start Year : 2019? Chief Investigator(s) : LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪
Development of E-learning Package to Enhance Learning and Teaching Probability and Statistics?
Innovative digital learning objects will be developed with a powerful statistical tool, R, and an appropriate curriculum will be designed in this project, to facilitate teaching and learning of probability distributions.
Project Start Year : 2018? Chief Investigator(s) : LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪 ; YEE, Tat Leung 余達良 ; CHEUNG, Ka Luen 張家麟
On the Use of Copulas in One-Shot Device Testing Data with Multiple Failure Modes?
Due to an increasing demand for appropriate probabilistic models for analyzing one-shot device data with multiple failure modes collected from accelerated life-tests, it is of great interest to develop copula models that can capture the association a . . .
Project Start Year : 2018? Chief Investigator(s) : LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪
Investment Pattern and Performance of Mandatory Provident Fund Scheme Members: A Historical Administrative Record Analysis?
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Project Start Year : 2016? Chief Investigator(s) : CHOU, Kee Lee 周基利 ??(Dr LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪 as Co-Investigator)
Safety, Reliability, and Disruption Management of High Speed Rail and Metro Systems?
The project aims to extend the advantage of Hong Kong by establishing it as a center of expertise in the safety, reliability, and efficient management of complex networking systems.
Project Start Year : 2016? Chief Investigator(s) : TSUI, Kwok Leung??(Dr LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪 as Co-Investigator)
Advanced Statistical Models for Accelerated Life Testing Data of One-Shot Devices?
The objective of this research is to accurately demonstrate the reliability characteristics of one-shot devices from data collected from accelerated life testing.
Project Start Year : 2015? Chief Investigator(s) : LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪
Good Teaching Practice – Incorporation of Development of Generic Skills into Course Teaching at Higher Education Context
The present project is related to Community of Practice (CoP). It aims to promote good teaching practice with the focus of incorporating the generic intended learning outcomes (GILOs) in course teaching and develop a peer sharing atmosphere on campus . . .
Project Start Year : 2015? Chief Investigator(s) : CHENG, May Hung May 鄭美紅 ??(Dr LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪 as Team Member)
故障预测和系统健康管理的贝叶斯推断 (Bayesian Inference for Prognostics and System Health Management)?
This project is concerned with some fundamental issues of statistical analysis for remaining useful life estimation for prognostics and system health management (PHM). Due to sophisticated modeling of high reliable components and systems, classical a . . .
Project Start Year : 2015? Chief Investigator(s) : TSUI, Kwok Leung??(Dr LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪 as Co-Investigator)
Developing and Evaluating a Learning Analytics Platform to Support University Teachers for Pedagogical Decision-making in Fostering Reflective Engagement of Students?
The project aims to develop a learning analytics platform conducive to data-oriented decision-making; to evaluate the impact of a learning analytics platform on facilitating reflective engagement of students in the learning process; and to evaluate t . . .
Project Start Year : 2014? Chief Investigator(s) : KONG, Siu Cheung 江紹祥 ; SONG, Yanjie 宋燕捷 ; POON, Kin Man 潘建文 ??(Dr LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪 as Co-Investigator)
Semi-parametric inference for one-shot device testing data?
The main purpose of this research is to develop semi-parametric models that help engineers and scientists to analyze one-shot device testing data collected from accelerated life testing.
Project Start Year : 2014? Chief Investigator(s) : LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪
Statistical inference on system reliability with redundancy?
This project is to develop statistical methods to estimate the reliability of system with redundancy
Project Start Year : 2014? Chief Investigator(s) : LING, Man Ho Alpha 凌萬豪
External Appointments

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Membership Secretary, The Hong Kong Statistical Society (HKSS), since 2017
Editorial Board Member,?Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, since 2017
Editorial Board Member,?Communications in Statistics - Simulation and?Computation, since 2017
Editorial Board Member,?Communications in Statistics - Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, since 2017
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Applied & Experimental Mathematics, since 2016
Organizing Committee?Member, Mathematics Project Competition for Secondary Schools, 2015-2019
Organizing Committee?Member, The Hong Kong Mathematics Olympiad, 2015-2019
Prizes and Awards

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Silver Medal and Special Award
In iCAN 2019, EdUHK showcased four edtech innovations and the GMoodle system for assessment automation has been awarded with two prizes: silver medal and special award.
Date of receipt: 24/8/2019 Conferred by: The International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN) 2019
Research Output Prize
Date of receipt: 14/3/2017 Conferred by: The Education University of Hong Kong