Dr. So obtained her first degree and a master’s degree majoring in Operational Research from the University of Hong Kong and in 2009 her Ph.D. at the University of Southampton.

Dr. Huang received her Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics (2006 - 2009) from our department. She was also the chairman of our Mathematics Society (2006 - 2007). She then obtained her M. Phil. Degree (with Prof. Ching and Dr. Han) at our department in 2011 and also received the outstanding research postgraduate student award (2010 - 11). Dr. Huang has a solid background in both mathematics and economics. During her MPhil study, she has published five papers in international journals and three papers in conference proceedings. She then pursued her PhD degree in Operations Management at Georgia Institute of Technology with a Dean's fellowship. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2016 and she is now an Assistant Professor at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA. Her research interests are: sustainable operations, closed loop supply chain, supply chain management.

A joint paper of Ruochen Liang and Yushan Qiu was awarded the Best Paper Award in the seventh International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization

(CSO 2014), Beijing, 3-6 July, 2014. The session consists of 6 papers.

Mr. Liang is a third year undergraduate student and he will start his Ph.D. Study in Mathematics at U.C. Berkeley, USA.

Miss Qiu is a third year Ph.D. student in Department of Mathematics and her research areas are Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing.

Two of our postgraduate students, Mr. WONG Kwok Chuen (M. Phil.) and Miss HUI Man Wa (Ph.D. Candidate) awarded the Doris Chen postgraduate prizes

Hao Jiang was awarded the Best Paper Award in the 6th IEEE International Conference on Systems Biology (ISB 2012), organized by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xidian University held in Xi'an, China, August 18-20, 2012.

Among 60 accepted papers, only two papers were awarded the prize.

Hao Jiang is a third year Ph.D. student in Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong. She received the B.S. degree in computational mathematics from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2009. Her main research areas are Mathematical Modelling and Applied Computing with an emphasis on their applications to Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.

The joint paper of Na Song and Dong-Mei Zhu was awarded the Best Paper Award in the Asset Pricing and Financial Analysis Session of the Fifth International Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (BIFE 2012), Lanzhou, 18-21 August, 2012. The session consists of 6 papers.

Na Song is a third year Ph.D. student in Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong. She received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Wuhan University, China in 2009.

Her main research areas are Mathematical Modelling and Operation Research with an emphasis on their applications to Quantitative Finance and Management Science.

Dong-Mei Zhu is a second year Ph.D. student in Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong. She received her Master degree in mathematics from Nanjing University, China in 2009 and her B.Sc. degree in Information and Computation Science, Hefei University of Technology, China in 2006.

Her main research areas are Advanced Modelling and Applied Computing with an emphasis on their applications to High-order Markov chain Models and there applications in Industrial Engineering and Quantitative Finance.

Na Song was awarded the Best Paper Award in Computational Economics and Finance Session of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization (CSO 2012), Harbin, 24-27 June, 2012. The session consists of 8 papers.

Na Song is a third year Ph.D. student in Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong. She received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Wuhan University, China in 2009. Her main research areas are Mathematical Modelling and Operation Research with an emphasis on their applications to Quantitative Finance and Management Science.

Miss Huang has a solid background in both mathematics and economics. During her MPhil study, she has published five papers in international journals and three papers in conference proceedings. Miss Huang is currently pursuing her PhD degree in Management at Georgia Institute of Technology with a Dean's fellowship.

Economic aspects of service systems are of great importance to real-world applications. In her thesis, Miss Choi applies stochastic queueing networks and game theory, important subjects in operation research, to study economic problems related to service systems with multiple servers, namely the problem of finding the optimal pricing strategy, and the study and control of the economic behavior of independently operating service providers. The mathematical results derived from this original research contribute to a better understanding of the relationships among queueing systems, game theory and pricing strategy.

Miss Choi has a solid background in both mathematics and statistics, and is noted for her excellent skills in computer programming and numerical simulation. During her MPhil study, she has published three papers in international journals and five papers in conference proceedings. She has also received numerous academic honours and awards, including an HKU Foundation Scholarship (2005-2007), a CV Starr Scholarship (2007), and IEOR Faculty Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2011).

Outside of her academic work, Miss Choi has also participated in and won multiple competitions at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contests, and has served on the Organizing Committee of the Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics.

Miss Choi is currently pursuing her PhD degree in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley in the U.S.