Biography

Professor Bo Chen has been at the forefront of operational research & management science (ORMS) and analytics for over thirty years. He specialises in developing successful interfaces between ORMS, economics, and computer science.

After gaining his PhD in Operations Research and Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Bo was awarded a Higher Doctorate in 2012, a form of "lifetime achievement award" for his original and sustained contributions to scholarship at the highest international level. He has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

Bo has been a (full) Professor of Operational Research, Analytics, and Management Science at WBS since 2005; an Honoured Professor at Fudan University School of Management since 2013. He was formerly a Senior ESRC Management Research Fellow, Visiting Professor in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University, USA, and Chair Professor in Mathematical Sciences and Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University, China.

Research Interests

combinatorial optimization; scheduling and transportation; game theory with mechanism design; mathematical and computational foundations of artificial intelligence