Professor Xiaowen Fu is the Head of Department and Professor in Engineering Management at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
His main research areas include engineering management, data analytics, transport and logistics, which cover issues such as competition policy and government regulation, efficiency benchmarking, operation management, transport demand modelling and industrial organization.
He has been the principal investigator of close to 30 research grants, the guest editor of 9 journal special issues, and the author of more than 150 journal articles. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Case Studies on Transport Policy, and associate editor of the book series “Advances in Airlines Economics”.
Prof. Fu has provided advisory and economic modeling services to many organizations such as the Boeing Commercial Aircraft, New Zealand Commerce Commission, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Hong Kong Transport and Housing Bureau, Japan Rail (East), and OECD. He is the director of the Behavior and Knowledge Engineering Research Center, founding chair of the Maritime Economy and Policy stream of the World Transport Convention, and an honorary professor of the University of Sydney Business School.