Miscellaneous

Award

Research recognition

- World’s top 2% of scientists in the Stanford/Elsevier 2024 single-year ranking, released in 2025.

Paper awards and recognitions

- Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Research in Transportation Business & Management. June 2026

- Best paper award (500 Euro award), Annual Conference of International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME 2025), Bergen, Norway, Jun 2025.

- Second place in the MEL Best Doctoral Thesis Award at IAME 2025 in Bergen, Norway (PhD student Lu LI).

- Best paper award (400 Euro award), Annual Conference of International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME 2024), Valencia, Jun 2024.

- Best student paper award, International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airport (IFSPA) 2024, Nanyang Technological University, June, 2024

- Best paper award, 2022 International Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Forum on Smart Shipping and Green Future, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Sep, 2022

- Second best student paper award, The 10th International Conference on Logistics and Maritime System (LOGMS 2021), Zhejiang University, Oct, 2021

- Excellent paper prize, World Transport Convention, Xi’an, China, Jun 2021.

- Shortlisted manuscript in the award for the best Maritime Policy & Management paper of 2020.

- Best paper prize, The 3rd Conference of the Yangtze-River Research and Innovative Belt (Y-RIB 2020), Ningbo (Ningbo University), Zhejiang, Nov 2020.

- Best paper prize, The 1st Conference of the Yangtze-River Research and Innovative Belt (Y-RIB 2018), Zhoushan (Zhejiang University), Zhejiang, Dec 2018.

- Best paper prize: “HANJIN PRIZE” (3,000 US dollar award), Annual Conference of International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME 2012), Taipei, Sep 2012.

Other awards

- PolyU Faculty of Business School Award, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Service), 2024.

- PolyU Faculty of Business School Fellow Award, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Knowledge Transfer), 2021.

- 3rd Place of Global AIS Big Data Hackathon, organized by the United Nations, 2020.

- PolyU Faculty of Business School Fellow Award, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Research), 2019.

Services

Professional and community positions

Professional/community service

• Member, Port Operations Committee, Hong Kong Marine Department, 2022-Now

• Member, Council of International Association of Maritime Economists, 2019–2026

• Vice-Chair, Greater Bay Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation Alliance, 2024–2026

• Member, Expert Review Panel of LSCM R&D Centre, 2025–2026

• Co-chair, Shipping and Trade Alliance for Research (STAR) Forum, 2025

• Visiting Prof, Dalian Maritime University, 2024–2027

• Member, RINA Asia Decarbonization Committee, 2021

• Exec. Chair, International Association of Maritime Economists Conference, 2020

• Co-chair, International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports, 2019,20,22

Editorial experience

• Associate Editor of Maritime Policy & Management (MPM) (2024 - now)

• Associate Editor of International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics (2021 - now)

• Associate Editor of Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications (2026 - now)

• Editorial board member of Transportation Research Part E 

• Editorial board member of Journal of Transport Geography 

• Editorial board member of Maritime Economics and Logistics 

• Editorial board member of Journal of Shipping and Trade

• Guest editor of Transportation Research Part E 

• “Decarbonization and digitalization in shipping and transport logistics”, 2019

• “Net Zero GHG for Maritime Transportation and its Implications”, 2025

• Guest editor of Industry and Innovation

“Innovation, Security, and Resilience: Firm Strategy and Industrial Dynamics amid Critical Infrastructure Disruption”, 2026 

• Guest editor of Transport Policy 

“Innovative Solutions for Shipping Market Turmoil”, 2017

“Integration and Cooperation of International Trade Transport in Globalization”, 2020

“Maritime technological development and transport policy”, 2021

• Guest editor of Maritime Policy & Management 

“Environment and Sustainability”, 2019

“Decarbonisation in Shipping”, 2021

• Guest editor of Journal of Advanced Transportation

“Data-Driven Traffic Modeling and Optimization in Intelligent Transportation Systems”, 2022

University Service

Administrative Positions

• Associate Head, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, 2022– now

• Director, Maritime Data and Sustainable Development Centre, 2024– now

• Director, Doctor of International Shipping and Port Programme, 2025– now

• Director, Master of International Shipping and Transport Logistics Programme, 2017– now

• Associate Director, Research Centre for Environmental, Social, and Governance Advancement, 2026– now

• Deputy Director, Shipping Research Centre, 2017– now

• Deputy Director, Shenzhen International Maritime Sustainable Development Centre, 2023– now

Committee membership

-Faculty level

• Member of Board of Faculty of Business (2022 – now)

• Member of Faculty Management Committee (2023 – now)

• FB Representative, Board of SHTM (2024 - 2026)

• Member of Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee (FLTC)

• Member, DFinTech Programme Committee (LMS HoD's delegate, 2022/2023)

• Member, MBA-PT Programme Committee (LMS HoD's delegate, 2022/2023)

-Department level

• Member of Departmental Advisory Committee (DAC)

• Member of Departmental Management Committee (DMC)

• Member of Departmental Staffing Committee (DSC)

• Member of Departmental Postgraduate Programme Committee (DPPC)

• Member of Departmental Learning and Teaching Committee (DLTC)

• Member of Departmental Health, Safety & Environmental Committee (DHSEC)

• Member of Expert Review Panel of Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre

• Department Undergraduate Student Academic Advisor, BBA-ISTL (2016-now)

• WIE Coordinator (ISTL)

Patents

[2]  一种基于锚地余泊位自动识别算法的港口拥堵检测方法，发明人：候尧；白茜文；杨冬，专利号：ZL 2020 1 1429529. 7.

[1]  一种AIS大数据驱动的集装箱港口装卸效率计算方法，发明人：杨冬；廖诗管；白茜文，专利号：CN 2021 1 0175225. 0.