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Biography
Yu-Wang Chen is Professor in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), The University of Manchester and Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. Prior to joining AMBS, he worked briefly as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received the PhD degree in Control and System Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
His research focuses primarily on Decision Sciences and Data Analytics, including their applications in business analytics, supply chain risk analysis, healthcare decision support, etc. He has published more than 60 research articles in leading journals, such as European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operation Research, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Information Sciences, Knowledge-Based Systems and IEEE Transactions on Systems, 5 books or book chapters and 20+ publications in conference proceedings.
He has been awarded as PI, Joint PI or Co-I a number of research or industry projects by Innovate UK, Turing-UoM Fund, EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), ERDF (European Regional Development Fund), NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China), etc., with a total budget of over 1 million pounds. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Decision Analytics Journal, Academic Editor of the Complexity Journal and Editorial Board Member of SN Business & Economics, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Web Intelligence and International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. He is a member of EPSRC Peer Review College, International Society of Multiple Criteria Decision Making and EURO Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) Working Groups.
He has successfully coordinated and taught across a broad portfolio of course units at all different undergraduate and postgraduate levels at AMBS. He currently acts as the Programme Director (2015-2018 & 2020-present) for the MSc Business Analytics programme (2023 QS Ranking: 2nd in the UK & 16th in the world).
Research interests
Yu-Wang’s research interests mainly include:
- Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis,
- Data Analytics for Decision Making in Business, Engineering, Healthcare, Supply Chain, etc
- Evidential Reasoning and Belief Rule-Based Methodology
- Modelling and Optimisation of Complex Systems
If you are interested in doing a PhD in Decision Science or Business Data Analytics, please feel free to get in touch!
The PhD degree requirements at AMBS: https://www.alliancembs.manchester.ac.uk/study/phd/
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Visiting Professor (during sabbatical leave), Shanghai Jiao Tong University
1 Oct 2018 → 31 Mar 2019
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Sustainable Futures
- Digital Futures
- Christabel Pankhurst Institute
Keywords
- Decision Sciences
- Business Analytics
- Data Analytics
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Consistency and consensus reaching process for group decision making based on complete interval distributed preference relations under social network analysis
Zhou, M., Guan, Z-X., Chen, Y-W., Zhou, Z-P., Wu, J. & Herrera-Viedma, E., 1 Dec 2022, In: Information Fusion. 88, p. 126-145 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring the vulnerability of transportation networks by entropy: A case study of Asia–Europe maritime transportation network
Wen, T., Gao, Q., Chen, Y-W. & Cheong, K. H., 1 Oct 2022, In: Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 108578.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Impact of government interventions on the stock market during COVID-19: a case study in Indonesia
Wu, T. & Chen, Y-W., Aug 2022, In: SN Business & Economics. 2, 9, 136 (2022).Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Towards achieving consistent opinion fusion in group decision making with complete distributed preference relations
Zhou, M., Hu, M., Chen, Y-W., Cheng, B-Y., Wu, J. & Herrera-Viedma, E., 5 Jan 2022, In: Knowledge Based Systems. 236, 107740.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Generalized Belief Entropy With Nonspecificity and Structural Conflict
Zhou, M., Zhu, S-S., Chen, Y-W., Wu, J. & Herrera-Viedma, E., 2 Dec 2021, In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Centre for Digital Trust and Society
Barrett, E., Allmendinger, R., Elliot, M., Lord, N., Cordeiro, L., Gibson, R., Papamarkou, T., Dresner, D., Buil Gil, D., Aldridge, J., Duncan, P., Banach, R., Brown, G., Dennis, L., Fisher, M., Korovin, K., Kotselidis, C., Luján, M., Mustafa, M., Olivier, P., Reger, G., Zhang, N., Hodgkinson, G., Gulati, S., Ainsworth, J., Chen, Y., Green, B., Healey, M., Uyarra, E., Zachariadis, M., Little, C., Mackey, E., Nenadic, G., Keane, J., Shlomo, N., Laskowski, N., Jarwar, M. A., Shariati Samani, S., Smith, D., Kambites, M., Thorpe, M., Rowley, P., Flynn, S., Turner, P., Wainwright, V., Czerwinsky, A., Nini, A., Broad, R., Shute, J., Deakin, J., Taboada, P., Knight, P., Hutchings, S., Whyte, J., Tolz-Zilitinkevic, V., Pilkington, H., Guharoy, S., Nicolo, A., Reggiani, C., Garcia Oliva, J., Van Someren, A., Bon, E., Cantijoch Cunill, M., Koch, D. & Chen, Y.
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