Department of
Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management
We seek to provide innovative solutions to business problems that confront modern corporations in an ever-more globalized and digitally-connected economy.
Department Updates
In Memory of Professor Theodore Clark
It is with immense sadness we learn the death of Professor Theodore "Ted" Henry King Clark, former Associate Professor of the Department of ISOM and the founding member of MscISM, which occurred in December 2023. He was 66 years old.
Click to view our page dedicated to the memory of Prof. Clark.
2024 PhD Program Recruitment Summer Camp
The PhD program in Operations Management (OM) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School is hosting a summer camp at the end of August 2024 for students who plan to apply for Fall 2025 entry to the PhD Program. The objective is to offer prospective students an opportunity to get to know our PhD program in depth and interact with our faculty and PhD students.
ISOM Faculty Named Senior Research Fellow by the RGC
Prof. Yingying Li has been conferred the title "RGC Senior Research Fellow" by the Research Grants Council (RGC), gaining a fellowship grant of HK$7.8 million. The fellowship scheme is prestigious and supports only ten awardees each year for exceptionally outstanding academics at UGC-funded universities in Hong Kong, intending to facilitate their dedication to research and development.
Prof. Dongwook Shin honored at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Prof. Dongwook Shin has received the Best Cluster Paper Award in the Service Science Section in the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023 held in Phoenix, the U.S. The award committee has awarded Prof. Shin's paper with First Place. The title of the paper is "Social Learning with Polarized Preferences on Content Platforms," co-authored with Prof. KADIYALA, Bharadwaj from the University of Utah.
Prof. Ying-Ju Chen is appointed as “Crown Worldwide Professor of Business”
Prof. Ying-Ju Chen received the "Crown Worldwide Professorship of Business" in July 2023. The named professorship is a significant recognition bestowed upon eminent academics at the University who contributed outstanding and impactful academic research over the years.
OM PhD Student Xinyi Zhou wins the Honorable Mention in the 2023 POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition
OM PhD Student Xinyi Zhou won the Honorable Mention in the 2023 POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition for her paper “Quality and Welfare Implications of Product Traceability in Supply Chain”, under the supervision of Professor Lijian Lu. The paper studies the roles of traceability-enabled technology, such as Blockchain technology, on the equilibrium quality and welfares in supply chain.
Prof. Weiyin Hong received the MISQ best reviewer award in 2021
The MIS Quarterly Outstanding Reviewer of the Year Award acknowledges the outstanding contribution of reviewers, whose insightful and supportive feedback has helped authors substantially improve their papers.
Prof. Ying-Ju Chen received RGC Collaborative Research Fund in 2021/22
Prof. Ying-Ju Chen has been awarded a 2021–2022 RGC Collaborative Research Fund, receiving over HK$7.9 million of total funding. The RGC fund is for the research project, “Alleviation of supply shortage and resource allocation inefficiencies during the pandemic.
Stats Faculty elected as Fellow in the Field
Prof. Yingying Li and Prof. Xinghua Zheng were elected as the "SoFiE Fellows" by the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) Council, in recognition of their outstanding service to the profession.
IS Faculty Editorial appointments
Our faculty members have contributed their expertise in the community and various academic journals.
Prof. Man Yu has received the 2021 MSOM Meritorious Service Award
Prof. Man Yu is one of the award recipients of the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM) 2021 Meritorious Service Award in recognition of her outstanding service provided to support the journal's scholarly mission.
Prof. Lucy Xia has been selected as a Young Scientist Participant for the inaugural Hong Kong Laureate Forum 2023
Prof. Lucy Xia has been selected as a Young Scientist Participant for the inaugural Hong Kong Laureate Forum by the Scientific Review Board (SRB) of the Council of the Hong Kong Laureate Forum (the HKLF), to be held on Nov 13-18, 2023.
PhD Placement (Information Systems)
Our PhD graduate, Dr Ng Ka Chung, Boris will join as Assistant Professor at the Department of Marketing and Management of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence
The Franklin Prize recognizes and awards HKUST Business School Faculty for their exceptional Teaching Excellence. Our faculty members have won the individual teaching award in recognition of their outstanding performance in teaching in 2022.
PhD Placement (Business Statistics)
Our PhD graduate, Dr. Ding Yi will join the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Macau.
OM Faculty Editorial appointments
Our faculty members continue serving on the editorial boards of leading OM journals.
Frontiers in Operations Management Workshop 2021
We consider a joint assortment optimization and customization problem under a mixture of multinomial logit models. In this problem, a firm faces customers of different types…
A Unified Framework for Multiple Testing with Auxiliary
We consider a joint assortment optimization and customization problem under a mixture of multinomial logit models. In this problem, a firm faces customers of different types…
Economic Consequences of Managerial Compensation Contract
We consider a joint assortment optimization and customization problem under a mixture of multinomial logit models. In this problem, a firm faces customers of different types…
Meeting the Need: Digital technology is not a “nice-to-have”
We consider a joint assortment optimization and customization problem under a mixture of multinomial logit models. In this problem, a firm faces customers of different types…
