简介
Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng is a distinguished chair professor of Graduate Institute of Urban Planning at National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan. He received a bachelor’s degree in business management from the Tatung Institute of Technology (now Tatung University), Taiwan. In 1971, he received a master’s degree in urban planning from Chung Hsing University (Now Taipei University), Taiwan. In 1977, he received a Ph.D. course in management science from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. He was an Associate Professor at Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, from 1977 to 1981, a Research Associate at Argonne National Laboratory from July 1981 to January 1982, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, from August 1989 to August 1990, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Engineering and Economic System, Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford University, from August 1997 to August 1998, a professor at Chaio Tung University from 1981 to 2003, and a Chair Professor at Chiao Tung University. He was named a National Distinguished Chair Professor (Highest Honor offered by the Ministry of Education Affairs, Taiwan) and Distinguished Research Fellow (Highest Honor Offered by NSC, Taiwan) in 2000. His current research interests include statistics, multivariate analysis, networks, routing and scheduling, multiple criteria decision making, fuzzy theory, application of hierarchical structure analysis to technology management, energy, the environment, transportation systems, transportation investment, logistics, locations, urban planning, tourism, technology management, electronic commerce, global supply chain, etc. He was awarded a Highly Cited Paper (March 13, 2009) ESI ‘Compromise solution by MCDM methods: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS’ as published in the ‘EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH’ on July 16th, 156(2), 445-455, 2004, which has recently been identified by Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators SM as one of the most cited papers in the field of Economics and Business. He received the MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award from the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (June 2009), the world Pinnacle of Achievement Award in 2005, and the National Distinguished Chair Professor Award (highest honor offered) of the Ministry of Education Affairs of Taiwan; additionally, he is a three time recipient of a distinguished research award and was twice named a distinguished research fellow (highest honor offered) of the National Science Council of Taiwan. He organized a Taiwan affiliate chapter of the International Association of Energy Economics in 1984 and he was the Chairman of the Tenth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, July 19-24, 1992, in Taipei, the Co-Chairman of the 36th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, June 20-23, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, and the Chairman of the International Summer School on Multiple Criteria Decision Making 2006, July 2-14, Kainan University, Taiwan. He is a member of IEEE, IAEE, ISMCDM, World Transport, the Operations Research Society of Japan, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Society of Japan, the City Planning Institute of Japan, the Behavior Metric Society of Japan, and the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems and participates in many societies of Taiwan.
