Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management

IIn addition to his current position at CUHK, Shu-Cherng Fang holds the Walter Clark Chair Professorship in Industrial Engineering and Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professorship at North Carolina State University, USA. He is also Chair Professor and Team Leader of Chair Professors in Mathematical Sciences and Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Honorary University Professor of Northeast University in Shenyang, Honorary University Professor of Shanghai University in Shanghai, Graduate University Advisory Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Honorary University Chair Professor of the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Before joining NC State, Professor Fang was Senior Member of Research Staff at Western Electric Engineering Research Center, Supervisor at AT&T Bell Labs, and Department Manager at the Corporate Headquarters of AT&T Technologies.

Professor Fang has published over one hundred refereed journal articles. He authored the books of Linear Optimization and Extensions: Theory and Algorithms (Prentice Hall 1993, with S. C. Puthenpura) and Entropy Optimization and Mathematical Programming (Kluwer Academic 1997, with J.R. Rajasekera and H.-S. Tsao). He currently serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals, including Optimization, Journal of Global Optimization, Pacific Journal of Optimization, Journal of Management and Industrial Optimization, Journal of Operations and Logistics, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, International Journal of Operations Research, OR Transactions, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making.

Professor Fang has won many awards and has been listed in several major biographic references. He was elected to Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers in 2002.

Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making

Linear and Nonlinear Programming

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Soft Computing

Telecommunication Networks

S.I. Birbil and S.-C. Fang, "An Electromagnetism-like Mechanism for Global Optimization", Journal of Global Optimization, 25, 263-282, 2003.

Y. Liao, S.-C. Fang and H.L.W. Nuttle, "Relaxed Conditions for Radial-Basis Function Networks to Be Universal Approximators", Neural Networks, 16, 1019-1028, 2003.

S.-C. Fang and L. Qi, "Manufacturing Network Flows", Optimization Methods and Software, 18, 143-165, 2003.

S.-C. Fang, H.L.W. Nuttle and D.W. Wang, "Fuzzy Formulation of Auctions and Optimal Sequencing for Multiple Object Auctions", Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 142, 421-441, 2004.

J. Han, Z. Huang and S.-C. Fang, "Solvability of Variational Inequality Problems", Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 122, 501-520, 2004.

H. Cheng, S.-C. Fang and J.E. Lavery, "An Efficient Algorithm for Generating Univariate Cubic L1 Splines", Computational Optimization with Applications, 29, 219-253, 2004.

H. Cheng, S.-C. Fang and J.E. Lavery, "Shape-preserving Properties of Univariate Cubic L1 Splines", Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 174 , 361-382, 2005.

Y. Dai, X. Chao, S.-C. Fang and H.L.W. Nuttle, "Game Theoretic Analysis of a Distribution System with Customer Market Search", Annals of Operations Research, 135, 223-238, 2005.

S.I. Birbil, S.-C. Fang, J.B.G. Frenk and S. Zhang, "Recursive Approximation of the High Dimensional max Functions", OR Letters, 33, 450-458, 2005.

S.-C. Fang, J. Han, Z.-Huang and S. I. Birbil, "On the Finite Termination of an Entropy Function Based Smoothing Newton Method for Vertical Linear Complementarity Problems", Journal of Global Optimization 33 (2005), 369-391, 2005.

Y. Zhao, S.-C. Fang, D, Li, "Constructing Generalized Mean Functions Using Convex Functions with Regularity Conditions", SIAM Journal on Optimization, 17, 37-51, 2006.

Y. Dai, X. Chao, S.-C. Fang, H.L.W. Nuttle, "Capacity Allocation with Traditional and Internet Channels", Naval Research Logistics, 53, 772-787, 2006.

Y.-M. Lin, S.-C. Fang, J. Thorne, "A Tabu Search Algorithm for Maximum Parsimony Phylogeny Inference", with European Journal of Operational Research, 176, 1908-1917, 2007.

A. S. Peker , J. E. Lavery, S.-C. Fang, "A Reduced Hsieh-Clough-Tocher Element with Splitting Based on an Arbitrary Interior Point", Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 333, 500-504, 2007.