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	Professor Xiaowen Fu Professor and Director Dr. Xiaowen Fu is a Professor of Engineering Management in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his PhD degree from the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia in Canada. His main research area is transport economics which covers issues such as competition policy and government regulation, efficiency benchmarking, transport demand modelling and industrial organization. He has been the principal investigator of close to 20 research grants and published 60 journal articles. He has been the guest editor of 5 journal special issues, is on the editorial boards of three journals including Transportation Research – Part B, Part E, and is an editor of the journal of Transport Policy, associate editor of the book series “Advances in Airlines Economics”.Professor Fu has provided advisory and economic modeling services to organizations such as the Boeing Commercial Aircraft, New Zealand Commerce Commission, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Government of British Columbia in Canada, Australian Competition Tribunal, Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department, Hong Kong Transport and Housing Bureau, Japan Rail (East), and OECD. He is the Vice President (Research) of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), Vice President (Research) of the Institute for Aviation (UK), founding chair of the Maritime Economy and Policy stream of the World Transport Convention, and an honorary professor of the University of Sydney Business School, the University of Sydney. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Dr Eric Tsui Associate Director Dr Tsui joined Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in 1989 after years of academic research in automated knowledge acquisition, natural language processing, case-based reasoning and knowledge engineering tools. He has designed and delivered numerous public and custom-designed knowledge management and technologies workshops. His research strengths include cloud-based business innovation and knowledge services. He joined PolyU in 2005 and until 2018 he was the Leader of the Master of Science in Knowledge Management degree program. He has also consulted for many government departments and private organizations in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Brunei. Professor Tsui is an honorary advisor of KM to three HKSARG departments. He has received many Knowledge Management and E-Learning awards and was listed as an Outstanding/Exemplary Academic in the 2015/6 and 2016/7 PolyU Annual Reports. Current interests in KM (through collaborative research, training or consultancy service) are: KM technologies, blended learning, learning pedagogies, digital literacy, personal learning environment and networks. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Dr Patrick S.W. Fong Associate Director and Associate Professor (Department of Building & Real Estate of PolyU) Patrick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Building & Real Estate of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has worked extensively in the construction industries in the UK and Hong Kong prior to joining the University, and is a professional surveyor of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Patrick’s research embraces INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING DYNAMICS and has published widely in these fields in construction and general management journals. He co-edited the book “Management of Knowledge in Project Environments”, published by Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann in 2005. He maintains close links with industry, and is a former Vice President of the Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society. He is also an active member of the international body, CIB W102 - Information and Knowledge Management in Building. He is also chief supervisor of a number of PhD students and post-doc fellows working on different facets related to his fields of research, such as environmental discourse and policy learning, university-industry technology transfer, social networks and knowledge sharing, storytelling, strategic knowledge management. He recently extends his work to personal knowledge management, knowledge and innovation cities, societal knowledge management and knowledge workplaces/workspaces. Through his research, he has demonstrated that knowledge is the key resource in today’s societies. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Dr Xiaoge Zhang Associate Director and Assistant Professor Xiaoge Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in May 2019, Nashville, TN, USA. From August to December in 2016, he interned at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, CA, working at the Prognostics Center of Excellence (PCoE) led by Dr. Kai Goebel. From August 2019 to February 2020, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar with Vanderbilt University. From March 2020 to August 2021, he worked as a Senior Operations Research Analyst in the Operations Research & Spatial Analytics (ORSA) group FedEx Express, Memphis, TN, USA. Since August 2021, he has joined the Department of Industrial and System Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor. He was a recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad in 2017. He has published more than 40 research articles in leading academic journals, such as Risk Analysis, International Journal of Productions Research, Decision Support Systems, Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, and Annals of Operations Research, among others. His current research interests include knowledge representation and management, risk analysis and reliability assessment of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms in high-stakes decision settings. He is on the editorial board of International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems. He is a member of IEEE. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Dr Min Xu Associate Director Dr Min Xu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore, Singapore and double bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and Economics from Tsinghua University. Dr. Xu’ research focuses on urban mobility modeling and optimization, transportation network modeling, travelers’ behavior modeling, etc. She dedicates to proposing innovative solutions to improve the efficiency of urban mobility and logistics systems by leveraging emerging technologies. Dr. Xu has more than 20 journal publications in the leading journals in the field including Transportation Research Part B and Transportation Research Part C. She has secured several external grants from RGC and NSFC. She also serves on the editorial board of top transportation journals, including Transportation Research Part C and Transportation Research Part E. She is the dissertation coordinator for the Master of Science in Knowledge and Technology Management in the Department. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Ir Professor W.B. LEE Emeritus Professor Professor WB Lee is the Founding Director of the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre, and the Former Head of the State Key Laboratory of Ultra-precision Machining Technology of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Lee is the editor of the Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Science as well as the International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science. He established the Knowledge Solution Laboratory, the first of its kind in Hong Kong and has pioneered research and practice of knowledge management in various organizations which include manufacturing, trading, public utilities, various government departments and health care. Prof. Lee and his team have launched Asia’s first on-line MSc Program in Knowledge Management. His research interest includes manufacturing engineering, knowledge management, organizational learning and intellectual capital based management. He has introduced the Global MAKE Award in mainland China and Hong Kong, and is now the coordinator of the Global MIKE Award and Study. Current interests in KM (through collaborative research, training or consultancy service) are: Identification of Knowledge Risks; KMS Customization; Knowledge Organization and Taxonomy; Action Science as a New Frame of Leadership Training. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Professor Benny Cheung Chair Professor of Ultra-precision Machining and Metrology Prof. Cheung has been conducting research into knowledge and technology management (KTM) since 2004. His research in KTM encompasses a broad range of methods and tools built on a basis of Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence technologies for supporting the management of knowledge and technology catered for various industries such as manufacturing, transportation, social service, public utilities, etc. He has also conducted research on knowledge auditing, intellectual capital management (ICM), technology roadmapping and assessment for enhancing innovation and learning capability in firms and organizations. Currently, he is the programme leader of the Master of Science in Knowledge and Technology Management in the Department. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Dr Carman Lee Associate Professor Dr LEE Ka Man is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. She obtained her PhD and B. Eng degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was awarded Bronze Award of 16th China National Invention Exhibition Award in 2006 and Outstanding Professional Service and Innovation Award, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006. Dr Lee has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal and conferences papers. Her current research areas include data mining, computational intelligence, knowledge based system and expert system for logistics and manufacturing. She is the co-editor of International Journal of Engineering Business Management and serves on the editorial advisory board of Industrial Management & Data Systems. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.