Interdisciplinary Team Awarded Research Grant from the One-off CRF COVID-19 and NID Research Exercise

A cross-institutional team led by Professor Houmin Yan, Chair Professor of Management Sciences and Management Committee Member of the Hong Kong Institute for Data Science (HKIDS), has received over HK$4 million funding on the One-off Collaborative Research Fund Coronavirus Disease and Novel Infectious Disease Exercise project titled ‘Resilient PPE Supply Chains for Hong Kong Health Systems: Current and Post Covid-19 Pandemic’. The team is composed of experts across the fields of operations management, supply chain management, data science, medical informatics, and public health. 

Academics from the School of Data Science, including Dean and Chair Professor S. Joe Qin, also Director of Centre for Systems Informatics Engineering (CSIE) and HKIDS; and Associate Professor Dr Qingpeng Zhang, also Member of CSIE, are contributing to the project as Co-Principal Investigators, and will lead sub-project teams to conduct research on PPE demand forecasting and predictive modeling for the control of various systems.