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PhD research scholarships in Transportation or Logistics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU)
HKU is ranked 21st in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010-2011. From time to time, this university provides PhD research scholarships to eligible full-time Ph.D. candidates. Depending on the performance of the candidate, the scholarships can provide up to a monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (approximately US$2,600) and a conference and research-related travel allowance of about HK$10,000 (approximately US$1,300). The details of the scholarships and other financial assistance can be found at
http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/index_ps4.htm#4a
The PhD 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
For the proposed supervisor, please consider Dr. Wai Yuen SZETO, Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at HKU (email: ceszeto@hku.hk; homepage: web.hku.hk/~ceszeto). He was Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the National University of Singapore and Trinity 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 modeling .
Dr Szeto has been published over 80 referred journal and proceeding papers. He has also received international research awards including:
1. The HKIE (Hong Kong Institution of Engineers) Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers (2008)
2. The EASTS (Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies) Outstanding Paper Award (2003)
•The outstanding paper “Time-dependent Transport Network Design: A Study of Budget Sensitivity", out of about 460 papers presented at (or 800 abstracts submitted for) the 5th biannual EASTS Conference in 2003.
3 The WCTR (World Conference on Transport Research) Prize (2001)
•The best paper “A Cell-based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model", out of about 700 papers presented at (or 1100 abstracts submitted for) the 9th triennial WCTR Conference in 2001. |
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