Prof Felix T. S. Chan 陳東燊 Professor

Location EF635
Phone +852 2766 6605
mail f.chan@polyu.edu.hk

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* Prof. Felix Chan is currently recruiting Research Assistants/Postdoctoral Fellows working in the areas of Reliability and Safety.
Brief BiosketchProf. Felix Chan received his BSc Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brighton University, UK, and obtained his MSc and PhD in Manufacturing Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, UK. Prior joining PolyU, Prof. Chan has many years of working experience in other universities including University of Hong Kong; University of South Australia; University of Strathclyde. His current research interests are Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Distribution Coordination, Smart Manufacturing, AI Optimisation. To date, Prof. Chan has published over 16 book chapters, over 370 SCI refereed international journal papers and 310 peer reviewed international conference papers. His total number of citations (without self-citations) > 10700, h Index= 52. (based on Web of Science, search by “Chan F. T. S.”). Prof. Chan is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong.
Based on the recent compilation (2020) from a research group of Stanford about the impact of scientists (top 2% listed). The work is published in the following website:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918. Prof. Felix Chan is categorized in the field of Operations Research, ranked 10 out of 23,455 scientists worldwide, i.e., Top 0.04% worldwide. At PolyU, only 5 staff ranked top 10 in his own field, and Prof. Felix Chan is one of them.
Teaching and Research SpecialtiesAreas of Teaching: Engineering Project Management, Industrial Systems Modelling and Simulation, Workflow Management.
Areas of Research: Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Production Management, Distribution Coordination, Systems Modelling and Simulation, Supplier Selection, AI Optimisation, Aviation Management.
Editorialship of Journals Editor-in-Chief,Transportation Management.
Associate Editor,International Journal of Modelling in Operations Management.
Associate Editor,International Journal of Network and Mobile Technologies.
Associate Editor,The Open Economics and Management Journal.
Member of Editorial Board of Journals Member, Editorial Board ofInternational Journal of Production Research.
Member, Editorial Board ofInternational Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing.
Member, Editorial Board ofRobotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board ofInternational Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board ofSupply Chain Management: An International Journal.
Member, Editorial Review Board ofJournal of Computer Information Systems.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board ofOnline Information Review.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board ofJournal of Manufacturing Technology Management.
Member, Editorial Board ofInternational Journal of Technology and Management.
Member, Editorial Board ofInternational Journal of Business Performance Management.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board ofInternational Journal of Computer Applications in Technology.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board ofJournal of Recent Patents on Engineering.
Member, Editorial Board of International Journal of Agile Systems and Management.
Member, Editorial Board ofWireless Engineering and Technology.
Member, Editorial Board ofInternational e-Journal of Business & Technology Leadership
Member, Editorial Board ofInternational Journal of Services, Economics and Management
Member, Editorial Board ofInternational Journal of Applied Management Science
Member, Editorial Board ofCommunications in Information Science and Management Engineering

Honours and Awards Chan, F.T.S., Tang, N.K.H., Lau, H.C.W. and Ip, R.W.L. (2002), A simulation approach in supply chain management,International Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management- Integrated Manufacturing Systems,Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 117-122. (This paper received the Highly Commended Paper Award in the 2002 volume (55 papers in total) by the Literati Club of Emerald)
Chan, F.T.S.and Qi, H.J. (2003), Feasibility of performance measurement system for supply chain: A process-based Approach and measures,International Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 179-190. (This paper received the Highly Commended Paper Award in the 2003 volume(60 papers in total) by the Literati Club of Emerald)
Chan, F.T.S.and Chan, H.K. (2004), Analysis of dynamic control strategies of an FMS under different scenarios,Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 20, Issue 5, pp. 423-437. (Recommended Article by ScienceDirect)
Chan, F.T.S.and Kumar, N. (2007), Global supplier development considering risk factors using fuzzy extended AHP-based approach, Omega-International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 35, Issue 4, pp. 417-431.(Cited more than 150 times (up to 2012) in ISI Web of Science)
Chan, F.T.S. (2002), Comparative evaluation of supply chain management strategies: A simulation approach,Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2002, 2-5 December 2002, Singapore, pp. 78-83. (Finalist for the Best Paper Award, out of 299 high quality accepted papers)
Kumar, V.V.,Chan, F.T.S., Mishra, N. and Kumar, V. (2010), Environmental integrated closed loop logistics model: An artificial bee colony approach,The 8th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS 2010), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 6-8 October 2010, pp. 681-687.(Highly Commended Award sponsored by Supply Chain Management-An International Journal)
The Faculty Award for Achievement (2011-2012) in the category of Research and Scholarly Activities, awarded by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
PhD students' project: Integrated Planning of Aircraft Maintenance Routing and Maintenance Workforce Problems
An On-time Scheduling Model for Solving the Air Cargo Accumulated Demand
Edited Book“Swarm Intelligence: Focus on Ant and Particla Swarm Optimization”, edited by Felix T. S. Chan and Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Advanced Robotics Systems (ARS) International, ISBN 978-3-902613-09-7.
PublicationsProf. Chan has published 16 book chapters, over 350 refereed international journal papers and 290 peer reviewed international conference papers.
Selected publications Chan, F.T.S.and Prakash, A. (2012), Inventory management in a lateral collaborative manufacturing supply chain: A simulation study,International Journal of Production Research, August, Vol. 50, No. 16, pp. 4670-4685.
Chan, F.T.S., Chan, H.K. and Bhagwat, R. (2012), A Decision-Information-Synchronisation perspective on the performance of FMS,International Journal of Production Research, February, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 1203-1213.
Chan, F.T.S.and Zhang T. (2011), The impact of collaborative transportation management on supply chain performance: A simulation approach,Expert Systems With Applications, March, Vol. 38, Issue 3, pp. 2319-2329.
Chan, H.K. andChan, F.T.S.(2010), Comparative study of adaptability and flexibility in distributed manufacturing supply chains,Decision Support Systems, Jan., Vol. 48, Issue 2, pp. 331-341.
Chan, F.T.S., Wang, Z., Zhang, J and Wadhwa, S. (2008), Two-level hedging point control of a manufacturing system with multiple product-types and uncertain demands,International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 46, No.12, pp. 3259-3295.
Chan, F.T.S., Bhagwat, R. and Wadhwa, S. (2007), Taguchi’s method analysis of an FMS under review-period based operational controls: Identification of control periodicity,IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part A- Systems and Humans, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 212-225.
Chan, F.T.S., Wang, Z. and Zhang, J. (2007), A two-level hedging point policy for controlling a manufacturing system with time-delay, demand uncertainty and extra capacity,European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 176, Issue 3, pp. 1528-1558.
Chan, H.K. andChan, F.T.S.(2006), Early order completion contract approach to minimise the impact of demand uncertainty on supply chains,IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 48-58.
Chan, F.T.S.and Chan, H.K. (2006), A simulation study with quantity flexibility in a supply chain subjected to uncertainties,International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 148-160.
Chan, F.T.S., Chung, S.H. and Wadhwa, S. (2004), A heuristic methodology for order distribution in a demand driven collaborative supply chain,International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 42, No.1, pp. 1-19.
Selected aviation-related publications Chan, F.T.S., Samvedi, A. and Chung, S.H. (2015), An Integrated Fuzzy Multi Criteria Approach for Robust Pairing Selection in Aviation Scheduling,The 4th International Conference on Mechanics and Industrial Engineering (ICMIE 2015), Spain, Barcelona, 20-21 July 2015, pp. 254(1)-254(7).
Eltoukhy, A.E.E.,Chan, F.T.S.and Chung, S.H. (2016), Ant colony optimization and simulated annealing for aircraft maintenance routing problem,The 26th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM), 27-30 June, 2016, Seoul, Korea.
Eltoukhy, A.E.E.,Chan, F.T.S., Chung, S.H. and Qu, T. (2017), Optimization Model and Solution Method for Operational Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem,World Congress on Engineering 2017, London, 5-7 July 2017.
Eltoukhy, A.E.E.,Chan, F.T.S.and Chung, S.H. (2017), Airline schedule planning: A review and future directions,Industrial Management and Data Systems, Vol. 117, Issue 6, pp. 1201-1243.
Eltoukhy, A.E.E.,Chan, F.T.S., Chung, S.H., Niu, B. and Wang, X.P. (2017), Heuristic approaches for operational aircraft maintenance routing problem with maximum flying hours and man-power availability considerations, Industrial Management and Data Systems, Vol. 117, Issue 10, pp. 2142-2170.
Shaban, I.A.,Chan, F.T.S.and Chung, S.H. (2017), Airlines extra-baggage pricing policy using newsvendor price based model,The 47th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, 11-13 October 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.
Eltoukhy, A.E.E.,Chan, F.T.S., Chung, S.H. and Qu, T. (2017), Stackelberg game theoretical model for optimizing aircraft maintenance routing with maintenance staffing,The47thInternational Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, 11-13 October 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, pp.1-8.
Eltoukhy, A.E.E.,Chan, F.T.S., Chung, S.H. and Qu, T. (2017), Scenario-based Stochastic Framework for Operational Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem,World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2017, 25-27 October 2017,San Francisco, USA, pp.952-956.
Chan, F.T.S.and Wu, Y. (2018), A Feasibility Study of Check-In System for 3-Runway Project in HK,Asian Conference on Engineering and Natural Sciences, February 6-8, 2018, Osaka, Japan, pp. 177-189.
Qin, Y.,Chan, F.T.S., Chung, S.H., Niu, B. and Qu, T. (2018), Enhanced event-based discrete time model for the integrated aircraft hangar maintenance scheduling and parking layout planning problems,The 8th International Congress on Engineering and Information, May 1-3, 2018 Sapporo, Japan.
Ng, K. K. H., Lee, C. K. M. andChan, F. T. S.(2017),A robust optimisation approach to the aircraft sequencing and scheduling problem with runway configuration planning,The2017 IEEE International Conference on IndustrialEngineering and Engineering Management (IEEM),10-13 December 2017, Singapore, pp. 40-44.
Chan, F.T.S., Chung, S.H. and Niu, B. (2018), Prediction of Flight Departure Delay with Big Data,The 5thInternational Conference on Big Data Analysis and Data Mining, 20-21 June 2018, Rome, Italy.
Qin, Y.,Chan, F.T.S., Chung, S.H., Qu, T. and Niu, B. (2018), Aircraft parking stand allocation problem with safety consideration for independent hangar maintenance service provider,Computers and Operations Research, March, Vol. 91, pp. 225-236.
Ng, K.K.H., Lee, C.K.M.,Chan, F.T.S.and Lv, Y., Review on Meta-heuristics Approaches for Airside Operation Research,Applied Soft Computing.(doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2018.02.013)