Zhen‐Song Chen

ZHEN-SONG CHEN received the Ph.D. degree in traffic and transportation plan and management from the School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. He was a Research Assistant and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University and holds the Chutian Scholar Fellowship. He is also a visiting scholar at University of Washington. He serves as an Area Editor of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, an Associate Editor of Information Sciences, and an Editorial Board Member of Automation in Construction, Engineering Management in Production and Services, International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling, and Journal of Construction Engineering, Management & Innovation and a Editorial Review Board Member of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He also serves as a Guest Editor of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Mathematics, and several other international journals. His current research interests include construction management, supply chain management, decision support systems, computing with words, group decision analysis, etc. His research results have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Omega, Automation in Construction, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Journal of Innovation and Knowledge, Financial Innovation, Knowledge-Based Systems, Information Fusion, Annals of Operations Research, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Information Sciences, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Applied Soft Computing, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Construction and Building Materials, Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, International Journal of General Systems, etc. Dr. Chen has recently received the honor of being among the World's Top 2% Scientists for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 published by Stanford University. He received the Highest Honors Student Award of Southwest Jiaotong University, in 2015, the National Scholarship for Ph.D. Students Award granted by the Ministry of Education of China, in 2013, 2014, and 2015, the second prize in the National Postgraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling Award granted by the China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center, in 2011, 2012, and 2013, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Foundation Award granted by Southwest Jiaotong University, in 2013, the Tang Lixin Scholarship Award, the Tang Lixin Fellowship Award granted by the Southwest Jiaotong University Education Foundation, in 2014 and 2015, the 2016 Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award granted by Southwest Jiaotong University, and the 2016 Outstanding Graduate of Sichuan Province Award granted by the Sichuan government of China. Recently, he has been awarded the Outstanding Reviewer of Information Fusion, Knowledge-based Systems, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems.

Visiting Scholar · University of Washington