Raymond Ka-man Cheung *93

Raymond Cheung, professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), died July 2, 2013, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He was 49.

Born in Hong Kong in 1963, Cheung moved to Toronto in 1980 to study at York University. He graduated with honors in 1984 and received a master’s degree in applied mathematics in 1985. For the next two years, he taught at what is now Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He then enrolled at Princeton and earned a master’s degree in civil engineering in 1989 and a Ph.D., in operations research in 1993.

Cheung joined Iowa State University’s industrial and manufacturing-systems engineering department. In 1996, he returned to Hong Kong and joined HKUST. There, Cheung began the technology management and global-logistics management program in 2000, and served as its program director until 2006.

Since 2002, he had been associate director of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Institute. These led to the renaming of the engineering department as the Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management. An honored scholar, Cheung supervised 15 students who graduated with master’s degrees and Ph.D.s.

He is survived by Ann Chan, his wife of 23 years; four children; and his father.

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