Dr. CHOI, Sungyong (최성용)

I am an full, tenured professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at HUBS (Hanyang University Business School), Seoul, South Korea. Before joining to HUBS, I received a Bachelor of Science in management science from KAIST, a Master of Science in statistics from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in management from RBS (Rutgers Business School), Rutgers University. Next, I was later appointed as an adjunct instructor at RBS, as a postdoctoral research fellow at NTU (Nanyang Technological University), and then as an assistant and associate professor of business administration at Yonsei University (Mirae Campus).

I have published more than 30 papers in premier international and domestic journals such as Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Operations Research Letters, Korean Management Science Review, Journal of the Korean Production and Operations Management Society, Journal of the Korean Society of Supply Chain Management and so on.

I am the editor-in-chief at KSPM (Korean Society of Project Management) and auditor at KPA (Korea Productivity Association). I served as the chair of research ethics committee at KLS (Korean Logistics Society) as well as the chair of academic affairs committees both at KPA and KAABA (Korean Academic Association of Business Administration). I am also an editorial board member at KORMS (Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society), KOPOMS (Korean Production and Operations Management Society), KLS (Korean Logistics Society), and TKES (The Korean Entrepreneurship Society). I am the secretary of INFORMS (Institute For Operations Research and Management Science) Korean Chapter. In addition, I served as an ad hoc reviewer for a number of international premier journals such as Operations Research and as a session chair for a number of international premier conferences such as INFORMS annual meeting.

For academic honors and awards, I received a Runner-Up Winner at the IC-PBL (Industry-Coupled Problem-Based Learning) Best Class Award in 2023 from Global Innovation for IC-PBL and IC-PBL Front Runner Award in 2022 from Hanyang University. I also received the best presentation award at the 2023 ICLS (International Congress on Logistics and Supply Chain Management) international conference, the best paper awards at the 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 annual conferences of SOI (Society of Open Innovation), and outstanding reviewer awards in both 2017 and 2018 from European Journal of Operational Research. I was also the winner at the best paper award at the 2023 spring bi-annual conference of KSPM (Korean Society of Project Management), the winner at the Researcher of the Month (Feb. 2021, Category: Humanities, Social Science, Arts, and Sports) at Hanyang University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation, the 2018 – 2019 best reviewer award for Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society at KORMS, the best paper award at the 2019 fall bi-annual conference of KAABA and 2016 spring bi-annual conference of KLS and a runner-up winner of the best paper award at the 2016 spring bi-annual conference of KRABE (Korean Research Association for Business Education). In addition, I was a runner-up winner at the Elwood S. Buffa dissertation competition in the 2010 DSI (Decision Science Institute) annual conference and also a finalist for the 2010 Committee on Stochastic Programming  student paper competition.

Last Modified at Nov. 13, 2023