PHD/POSTDOC RECRUITMENT

I have had the honor of working with many excellent PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows during my academic career. I am actively seeking self-motivated PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows with strong backgrounds of coding or mathematics, who are passionate about doing research on optimization of decision making for applications in logistics, transportation, shipping, and supply chain management.

• PhD scholarship: HKD 18470/month or more, depending on qualifications (see details, no deadline)

• Postdoc salary: HKD 28500/month or more, depending on qualifications (see details, no deadline)

For inquiries, please email me at zhou.xu@polyu.edu.hk at any time. Together, we can tackle challenges and make a meaningful impact.

PhD supervised (as CHIEF-supervisor)

• Liang XU, PhD, PolyU, 2011 (Chief supervisor, jointly supervised with Chung-Lun LI): currently being Professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China.

• Xiaofan LAI, PhD, PolyU, 2015 (Chief supervisor, jointly supervised with Liming LIU): currently being Associate Professor at Shenzhen University, China.

• Jun XIA, PhD, PolyU, 2016 (Chief supervisor): currently being Associate Professor at Sino-US Global Logistics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

• Shifu XU, PhD, PolyU, 2022 (Chief supervisor): currently holding a researcher position at Huawei.

• Shengnan SHU, PhD, PolyU, 2022 (Chief supervisor): currently holding a research assistant professor position at PolyU.

• Silong ZHANG, PhD, PolyU, 2025 (expected) (Chief supervisor).

• Xiaodeng HAO, PhD, PolyU, 2027 (expected) (Chief supervisor).

• Yarui ZHANG, PhD, PolyU, 2027 (expected) (Chief supervisor).

PhD supervised (as Co-supervisor)

• Jinjia HUANG, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, 2018 (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Fan WANG): currently being Postdoctoral Research Fellow at National University of Singapore, Singapore.

• Shuai JIA, PhD, PolyU, 2019 (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Chung-Lun LI): currently being Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China.

• Jiliu LI, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2020 (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Hu QIN): currently being Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University.

• Tiantian WANG, PhD, PolyU and Zhejiang University, 2021 (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Hong MA): currently holding a senior engineer position at Cainiao. 

• Henan LIU, PhD, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2022 (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Yinfeng XU).

• Xianyan YANG, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2022 (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Feng LI): currently being Postdoctoral Fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• Jing ZHU, PhD, PolyU and Zhejiang University, 2024 (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Hong MA): to be an algorithm engineer at Tianmao.

• Xinbo ZHANG, PhD, CityU, 2023 (expected) (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Minming LI).

• Ning FANG, PhD, Zhejiang Univesity, 2025 (expected) (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Weihua ZHOU).

• Ziqiao MEI, PhD, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2025 (expected) (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Feng CHEN).

• Yu DU, PhD, PolyU, 2026 (expected) (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Daniel NG).

• Ziao ZHAO, PhD, PolyU, 2027 (expected) (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Qinghe SUN).

POSTDOC supervised

• Lindong LIU, Postdoc, 2015 - 2016 (Chief supervisor): currently being Professor at University of Science and Technology of China, China.

• Feng LI, Postdoc, 2016 (Chief supervisor), 2017 (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Chung-Lun LI): currently being Associate Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.

• Xiaoming XU, Postdoc, 2016 - 2018 (Co-supervisor, jointly supervised with Chung-Lun LI): currently being Associate Professor at Hefei University of Technology, China.

• Chungtian ZHANG, Postdoc, 2023 - 2024 (Chief supervisor): currently being Associate Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, China.

• Xianyan YANG, Postdoc, 2023 - present (Chief supervisor)

• Qin ZHANG, Postdoc, 2023 - present (Chief supervisor)