Associate Professor   Jeff L. HONG (洪 流)   (PhD, Northwestern University, 2004 )   ROOM: 5550   TEL: 2358-7096   E-MAIL: hongl@ust.hk   Home URL: http://www.ielm.ust.hk/dfaculty/hongl/

Research Interests:
Design and analysis of simulation experiments, Optimization via simulation, Ranking and Selection.

Profile:
Dr. Hong joined the Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management at HKUST in 2004. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University in 2002 and 2004, his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 2001, and his B.E. in Industrial Engineering and Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1999. Dr. Hong is an Associate editor of Naval Research Logistics, and a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and a member of INFORMS Simulation Society.

Publications:
Hong, L. J. Fully sequential indifference-zone selection procedures with variance-dependent sampling. Naval Research Logistics, forthcoming.

Pichitlamken, J., B. L. Nelson and L. J. Hong. A sequential procedure for neighborhood selection-of-the-best in optimization via simulation. European Journal of Operational Research, forthcoming.

Hong, L. J. and B. L. Nelson. 2006. Discrete optimization via simulation using COMPASS. Operations Research, 54:115-129.

Hong, L. J. and B. L. Nelson. 2005. The tradeoff between sampling and switching: New sequential procedures for indifference-zone selection. IIE Transactions, 37:623-634.

Involved Projects:
Active Projects:

Dynamic Grid Search: A locally-convergent and Gradient-free Framework for Continuous Optimization via Simulation (1/1/2006-12/30/2008) RGC CERG HKUST613305, HK$538,836

A game of five: Challenges and opportunities to Hong Kong international airport and Hong Kong's logistics industry (10/9/2005-9/9/2007) HIA05/06.EG01, HK$600,000

Revised COMPASS for discrete optimization via simulation, (1/5/2005-30/4/2007) DAG04/05.EG04, HK$100,000