Senior Lingnan Scholar

Professor Kwok Leung TSUI

Professor Kwok-Leung Tsui is a professor in Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to that, Dr. Tsui was a professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic and State University in 2020-2024; chair professor in the School of Data Science and Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at City University of Hong Kong in 2009-2020; professor/associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990-2011; and member of technical staff in the Quality Assurance Center at AT&T Bell Labs in 1986-1990. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Professor Tsui was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award. He has been named on the list of Clarivate "Highly Cited Researchers” in 2023 and 2024, and included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists published in 2021-24 by Stanford University in the US. He is Fellow of the Institute for Operation Research and Management Science (INFORMS), American Statistical Association (ASA), American Society for Quality (ASQ), International Society of Engineering Asset Management, and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers; elected member and council member of International Statistical Institute (ISI); and U.S. representative to the ISO Technical Committee on Statistical Methods. Dr. Tsui was Chair of the INFORMS Section on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability and the Founding Chair of the INFORMS Society on Data Mining. His current research interests include data science and predictive analytics, surveillance in healthcare and public health, personalized health monitoring, prognostics and systems health management, calibration and validation of computer models, process control and monitoring, and robust design and Taguchi methods.