PhDresearch scholarships in Transportation or Logistics at the University of HongKong (HKU)
HKUhas recently been ranked 24th among the world’s Universities (Source:THE - QS World University Rankings 2009).
From time to time, PhD research scholarships areavailable to the full-time Ph.D candidates. Depending on the performance of thecandidate, the scholarships can provide up to a monthly stipend of HK$20,000(approximately US$2,600) and a conference and research-related travel allowanceof HK$10,000 (approximately US$1,300) per year for a period of three years. Thedetails of the scholarships and other financial assistance can be found at
http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/index_ps4.htm#4a
ThePhD admission details and the course work requirement can be found at http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/rola/generalinfo.htm
http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/index.htm
http://www.hku.hk/civil/h2f.htm
Forthe proposed supervisor, please consider Dr. Wai Yuen SZETO, AssistantProfessor at the Department of Civil Engineering at HKU (email: drwszeto@yahoo.com.hk). He wasAssistant Professor and Lecturer at the National University of Singapore andTrinity College Dublin, respectively. His research interests include
dynamic traffic assignment,
transport network design,
transport network reliability,
game theoretic approaches to transport and logistic problems,
public transport,
transport logistics,
pricing,
meta-heuristics for transport and logistics problems, and
landuse-transport-environment.
DrSzeto has been published over 70 referred journal and proceeding papers. He hasalso received international research awards including:
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TheHKIE (Hong Kong Institution of Engineers)Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers (2008)
2.
The EASTS (Eastern AsiaSociety for Transportation Studies) Outstanding Paper Award (2003)
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The outstandingpaper “Time-dependent Transport Network Design: A Study of BudgetSensitivity", out of about 460 papers presented at (or 800 abstractssubmitted for) the 5th biannual EASTS Conference in 2003.
3.
The WCTR (World Conference on Transport Research)Prize (2001)
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The best paper “ACell-based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model", out of about 700 paperspresented at (or 1100 abstracts submitted for) the 9th triennialWCTR Conference in 2001.