Chung-Yee LEE 李忠義

Dr. Chung-Yee Lee is a Professor Emeritus at the IEDA Department. He served as Department Head for seven years (2001- 2008). He was also the holder of the Cheong Ying Chan Professorship in Engineering (from January 2013 to June 2017). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers in U.S. and also a Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. Before joining HKUST in 2001, he was Rockwell Chair Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University. He worked as a plant manager and also had few years consulting experience in Taiwan. In past thirty years he has engaged in forty research projects sponsored by NSF, RGC, ITF, IBM, Motorola, AT&T Paradyne, Harris Semiconductor, Northern Telecom, Martin Marietta, Hactl, HIT, Philips Medical,...etc.

His research areas are in logistics and supply chain management, scheduling and inventory management. He has published more than 160 papers in refereed journals. According to an article in Int. J. Prod.Eco.(2009), which looked at all papers published in the 20 core journals during last 50 years in the field of production and operations management, he was ranked No. 6 among all researchers worldwide in h-index.

He received a BS degree in Electronic Engineering (1972) and a MS degree in Management Sciences (1976) both from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan. He also received a MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University (1980) and PhD degree in Operations Research from Yale University (1984).