Albert Y. HA Chair Professor Email: imayha@ust.hk Ph.D. 1992 Stanford University, Business (Operations Management) M.B.A.  1988 The Chinese University of Hong Kong B.Sc. 1984 University of Hong Kong, Civil Engineering

• Department Head, Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, Aug 2005-Jul 2011
• Chair Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), July 2009-present
• Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), 2004-2009
• Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), 2001-2004
• Associate Professor, School of Management, Yale University, 1997-2001
• Assistant Professor, School of Management, Yale University, 1992-1997

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Production and inventory management, incentive in operations, supply chain competition,  contracting and information sharing in supply chains.

WORKING PAPERS

"Information Sharing in a Supply Chain with a Common Retailer" (with W. Shang and S. Tong) 

SELECTED  PUBLICATIONS

• "Sharing Demand Information in Competing Supply Chains with Production Diseconomies", Management Science, March 2011 (with H. Zhang and S. Tong)
• "Reactive Capacity and Inventory Competition under Demand Substitution", IIE Transactions, 40, 2008 (with Q. Li)
• "Contracting and Information Sharing under Supply Chain Competition", Management Science, April, 2008 (with S. Tong)
• “Revenue-Sharing Contracts in a Supply Chain with Unobservable Actions,” Naval Research Logistics, 55, 2008 (with S. Tong)
• "Optimal Shared Savings Contracts in Supply Chains: Linear Contracts and Double Moral Hazard",  European Journal of Operational Research, June, 2005 (with C. Corbett and G. DeCroix)
• "Price and Delivery Logistics Competition in a Supply Chain",  Management Science, September, 2003 (with L. Li and S. M. Ng)
• "Optimal Pricing that Coordinates Queues with Customer-Chosen Service Requirements", Management Science, July, 2001
• "Supplier-Buyer Contracting: Asymmetric Cost Information and the Cut-off Level Policy for Buyer Participation", Naval Research Logistics, February, 2001
• "Stock Rationing in an M/E_k/1 Make-to-Stock Queue", Management Science, January, 2000
• "Incentive-Compatible Pricing for a Service Facility with Joint Production and Congestion Externalities", Management Science, December, 1998 
• "Inventory Rationing in a Make-to-Stock Production System with Several Demand Classes and Lost Sales", Management Science, August, 1997
• “Optimal Inventory Rationing Policy in a Make-to-Stock Production System with Backordering,” Naval Research Logistics, 1997
• "Optimal Dynamic Scheduling Policy for a Make-to-Stock Production System",  Operations Research, January/February, 1997
• " Optimal Timing of Reviews in Concurrent Design for Manufacturability," Management Science, September 1995 (with E. L. Porteus)

SERVICE ACTIVITIES WITHIN COLLEGE AND PROFESSION

• Senior Editor, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management(2003-2005), Production and Operations Management (2007-present)
• Associate Editor, Management Science (2000-present), Operations Research (2000-present), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (2006-present)
• Editorial Board Member, IIE Transactions (1996-1997), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (2000-2002)
• Referee for Management Science, Operations Research, QUESTA, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Naval Research Logistics, Manufacturing and Service Operations

HONORS

• The Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, HKUST Business School, 2002, 2007
• Meritorious Service Award, Operations Research, 2001, 2002

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

• Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, Manufacturing and Service Operations Society