DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

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

Closing the Loop: Coordinating Inventory and Recommendation via Deep Reinforcement Learning on Multiple Timescales

by Dr Yijie Peng

Associate Professor

Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

6 October 2025

Fluid Model Applications in Reliability and Queueing Systems

by Dr Young Myoung Ko

Professor

Industrial & Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

19 September 2025

Cyber-physical System for Experiments and Measurements of UAS

by Dr Datong Liu

Professor

School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)

11 September 2025

Dynamic Functional-coefficient Autoregressive Spatio-Temporal Models

by Dr Rongmao Zhang

Distinguished Professor

Zhejiang Gongshang University

1 August 2025