DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

Data-driven Maintenance Management Under Varying Working Conditions

by Dr Liu Bin

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

Department of Management Science, University of Strathclyde

30 June 2026

Novel Closed-Form Point Estimators for the Beta Distribution

by Dr Xun Xiao

Senior Lecturer

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago

29 June 2026

Energy is National Defence!

by Prof Lui Pao Chuen

Temasek Defence Professor

Temasek Defence Systems Institute

14 April 2026

The Structure of Mission-Driven Innovation: Network Motifs in ARPA-E Programs

by Dr Martin Ho

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

8 April 2026

AI for Social Science: Generative Modeling Beyond LLMs

by Dr Lin William Cong

President’s Chair Professor

Finance, Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University

13 March 2026

Corporate Scope Responses to Rival Acquisitions

by Dr Korcan KavuÅŸan

Associate Professor

Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

12 March 2026

Zoning in Emerging Logistics Systems: New Theory and Practice

by Dr Sheng Liu

Assistant Professor

Operations Management and Statistics, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

12 February 2026

When Strategic Customers Meet Strategic Servers: Individual and Social Optimization in Many-Server Queueing Systems

by Dr Amy Ward

Rothman Family Professor

Operations Management, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

6 February 2026

Modeling and Prediction of Feature-Correlated Stochastic Processes in Reliability Engineering

by Dr Xiaobing Ma

Professor, Vice Dean

School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University

7 February 2026

A Stochastic Approximation Approach to Communication Efficient Decentralized Optimization

by Dr Hoi-To Wai

Associate Professor

Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong

28 November 2025