Tamás Koltai works as professor of production and operations management at the Department of Management and Corporate Economics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics since 1983. For 10 years he also taught operations management in the Business School of the Central European University as adjunct professor. He was a visiting Scholar in the Michigan Business School for one academic year, and he worked as visiting professor at the University of Seville in Spain for three year.
He has a master degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in industrial engineering. He is head of the Production Management Group of his department. He also works as editor in chief of Periodica Polytechnica which is a scientific pier reviewed journal of the faculty of Management and Social Sciences. He was a co-editor of the Harvard Business Review Hungarian Edition between 1999 and 2010.
His research areas are cost analysis of manufacturing and service operations and mathematical modeling of manufacturing and service systems. He has a special interest in flexible manufacturing. He published several papers in the International of Production Economics, Omega, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research and in Production and Operations Management.
Wen-der Yu is a Professor of Construction Management at Chung Hua University in Hsinchu City of Taiwan. His current research interests focus on business intelligence and computer-aided innovation for construction engineering. Dr. Yu has been the Chairman of Department, Director of R&D Office, and Dean of Student Affairs of Chung Hua University. He currently serves as Convener of National Construction Project Management Development Taskforce, Taiwan Project Management Association, a member of IPMA. Dr. Yu has published more than 200 works including books, papers in internationally indexed journals and conferences in the fields of project management, data mining, artificial intelligence, knowledge management, and technology innovation.
Arpad Horvath is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Head of the Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate Graduate Program, Director of the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing, and Director of the Engineering and Business for Sustainability certificate program. His research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of products, processes, and services, particularly of civil infrastructure systems and the built environment. He is a member of the Environmental Engineering Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, as well as the EPA’s Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committee, and a frequent consultant to California state agencies and private companies. He is an author of more than 65 peer-reviewed journal papers. He was Conference Chair of the 6th International Conference on Industrial Ecology in 2011, the world’s largest sustainable research conference to that date. Professor Horvath is an Associate Editor of the J. of Infrastructure Systems and a member of the editorial advisory boards of Environmental Science & Technology, J. of Industrial Ecology, and Environmental Research Letters. He is a recipient of the International Society for Industrial Ecology’s Laudise Prize and the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize. Three of his co-authored papers have been voted among the best in Environmental Science & Technology in 2008, 2011, and 2012.
Dr. Derek Walker is Professor of Project Management and Director of Research at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University. He worked in various project management roles in the UK, Canada, and Australia for 16 years before commencing his academic career in 1986. He obtained a Master of Science from the University of Aston (Birmingham) in 1978, and a PhD in 1995 from RMIT University (Melbourne). He has written over 250 peer reviewed papers and book chapters and supervised 24 doctoral candidates through to completion. His most recent books include; Steinfort, P. and Walker, D. H. T. (2011) What Enables Project Success: Lessons from Aid Relief Projects, Newtown Square, PA, Project Management Institute; Klakegg, O. J., Williams, T., Walker, D. H. T., Andersen, B. and Magnussen, O. M. (2010) Early Warning Signs in Complex Projects, Newtown Square, PA, USA, Project Management Institute; and Walker, D. H. T. and Rowlinson, S., Eds. (2008). Procurement Systems – A Cross Industry Project Management Perspective. Series Procurement Systems – A Cross Industry Project Management Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon, Taylor & Francis.
His research interests centre on innovation diffusion of information and communication technologies, knowledge management, project management and project procurement systems.
He also teaches into the Master of Project Management (MPM) academic program at RMIT. He is editor of The International Journal of Managing Projects in Business for Emerald Insight http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=j0bm25095pn370h1fvdobdsti4&id=ijmpb and is a member of the editorial board of the Project Management Journal, The Learning Organization, Construction Innovation and several other journals.
URL: http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/derekwalker
Professor Ng is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. His recent research interests include low carbon construction, construction industry development, contractor and consultant selection, delays mitigation, time/cost performance, and construction information technology. Over the years, he has secured more than US$5.5 million of research grants and published over 300 scholarly items. Professor Ng is a Member of Technical Committee of Thermal Performance and Energy Use in the Built Environment set up by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/TC163) and an Editor of the Journal of Building Environment Project and Asset Management.
