Professor Chung-Li Tseng

My Expertise

Operations management and analysis; financial engineering; risk management; electric power; optimisation.

Biography

I am a Professor of Operations Management at the UNSW Business School in Sydney Australia. I am currently the Executive Director at the Business School's UNOVA Knowledge Hub for Digital Transformation, where I lead multidisciplinary research projects, providing expert insights to companies navigating technical and managerial challenges in their digital transformation journeys. I have taught operations management and supply chain management in various programs including MBA and EMBA. Prior to joining UNSW, I held faculty positions at the University of Maryland and the University of Missouri-Rolla in the US. I received my Ph.D. degree from the University of California-Berkeley and a M.S. from UC Davis. I have edited or co-edited several special issues of peer-reviewed journals. My published work has appeared in Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service and Operations Management, The Energy Journal, Energy Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, and other journals. I am a past President of the Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment of the INFORMS. I am currently the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Energy Engineering, and have served on the Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and the International Journal of Business Analytics. My research interests include operations management, healthcare, sustainability, financial engineering, and project management.

Research Interests:

Operations management and analysis
Energy
Healthcare
Financial engineering and risk management

ASB Profile: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/schools/Pages/ChungLiTseng.aspx

My Grants

I have played a significant role in securing industry collaborations upwards of $2M in research funding from prominent companies in Australia, such as NBN, WooliesX, Sydney Metro, the George Institute of Global Health, Conry Tech, and Kent Removals.

My Awards

Research Impact Award, UNSW Business School, 2022.
Highly Commended for the Research Impact Award, UNSW Business School, 2021.
UNSW Business School Teaching Excellence Award (nominated), 2015.
Richard R. Torrens Award, ASCE, 2015.
2nd Prize, Best Publication Award in Environment-Sustainability, INFORMS, 2013.
Best paper award in the 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan 1998.

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

sustainability

Areas of supervision

Tong Zhao, 2003, project and infrastructure management (UMD)

Valuing Flexibility of Facility Expansion and Layout: A Real Options Approach

Current Position: Manager, Delta Consulting Group, Inc.

Wei Zhu, 2004, asset valuation (UMD)

Thermal Generation Asset Valuation Problems in a Competitive Market

Current Position: Senior Fundamental Analyst, SUEZ Energy North America, Houston.

Satheesh Sundararajan, 2004, project finance (UMD)

Project Performance-Based Optimal Capital Structure for Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects

Current Position: Senior Infrastructure Finance Specialist, World Bank, Washington, DC.

Wenlin Chen, 2016, healthcare management (UNSW)

On Health Care-Associated Infection Control in the Presence of Health Care Workers’ Strategic Hand Hygiene Behavior, Assistant Professor, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, Chengdu, China.

Wenjie Huang, 2022, sustainable supply chain (UNSW)

The impact of consumers’ socially influenced recycling behavior on closed-loop supply chains

Alain Balaguer, 2022, sustainable supply chain (UNSW)

Three Essays on Psychological Distance in Supply Chains

My Engagement

Editorships

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Energy Engineering, ASCE, 2012 – Present (SCI, IF 2.2)
Associate Editor, Journal of Energy Engineering, ASCE, 2003 – 2012.
Editorial Board, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE, 2009
Editorial Board, International Journal of Business Analytics, 2012 – Present
Editorial Board, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, 2020 – Present

Officers for Professional Organizations

President, Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment (ENRE), INFORMS, 2002 – 2004.
Vice President, ENRE Section, INFORMS, 2001 – 2002.

Conference Committee

Program committee member, International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC), World Automation Congress (WAC), Kobe, Japan, Sep 19-23, 2010.
International scientific committee member, the 2nd International Conference on Harmony Search Algorithm (ICHSA 2015), Seoul, Korea, Aug 19-21, 2015.
International scientific committee member, the 3rd International Conference on Harmony Search Algorithm (ICHSA 2017), Bilbao, Spain, Feb 2017.
International scientific committee member, the 4th International Conference on Harmony Search Algorithm (ICHSA 2018), Gurgaon, India, Feb 2018.