Academic Profile : Faculty

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Asst Prof Yan Ran
Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Ran (Angel) Yan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, since March 2023. Dr Yan is also a joint Senior Scientist in Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) at Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR, Singapore) since May 2024. Dr. Yan obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Hohai University in 2018, and Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2020 and 2022, respectively. Before joining NTU, she was a research assistant professor at the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from May 2022 to March 2023. Dr. Yan’s research interest includes data analytics in maritime studies, big data in maritime transport, green shipping management, maritime risk management, and port and shipping optimization.

Dr. Yan has published more than 50 SCI/SSCI indexed research papers in top-tier transportation, maritime, and energy journals, such as Transportation Research Part B/C/D/E, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Computers and Operations Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Applied Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Maritime Policy & Management, Transport Policy, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Ocean & Coastal Management, and Ocean Engineering.

Dr. Yan is the PI of MARINA Lab (LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100948606/admin/feed/posts/).
More information about Dr. Yan can be found from her Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=ALCmswwAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN and personal academic website: https://ranyan.w3spaces.com/.

!!News: Recruitment of PhD students, research fellows and research assistants is ongoing. If you are interested, please send your CV and the related materials to Dr. Yan via email.!!
data analytics in maritime studies, big data in maritime transport, green-shipping management, maritime risk management, and port and shipping optimization
 
  • Optimization of ship sailing speed profile based on dynamic meteorological data: Model, algorithm, and application
  • Prediction of vessel arrival and turnaround time at port by artificial intelligence: Models and applications
  • Transport and logistics of tomorrow: Towards a smarter, greener, and more resilient future
  • Maximizing weighted inspection benefits in port state control based on prescriptive analytics: Models, methods, and applications
  • Ship Fuel Consumption Estimation Based on Shipping Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: Models and Applications
  • Reducing Maritime Accidents by Port State Control: Models and Applications
  • Quantifying the technological impacts and socioeconomic costs of marine alternative fuels: Evidence from life cycle assessment and techno-economic assessment
Awards
2023, Elsevier 2022 Early Career Researcher Paper Award for journal Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain
2022, Excellent Outstanding Reviewer of Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain
2022, Nominated by the Faculty of Business (the only nominee) for the competition of the PolyU PhD Thesis Award
2021, Excellent Paper Award of WTC 2021 (first author). Paper title: Vessel fuel consumption prediction considering shipping domain knowledge. Xi'an, China
2019, Best Student Paper Award for the 2nd KES International Symposium on Smart Transport Systems. Paper title: Ship inspection by port state control—review of current research. (The only student awardee in maritime transportation)
 
Courses Taught
LGT5171: Contemporary Issues in Operations Management (the HK PolyU)
MT1001: Mathematics I For Maritime Studies
MT2002: Shipping Economics
MT2004: Mathematics II for Maritime Studies
MT2005: Port Economics
MT4001: Shipping Logistics
Supervisor of URECA and FYP
 
Supervision of PhD Students
Ms. LI Qingyao [Aug 2019 to present]
Mr. CHU Zhong (the HK PolyU) [Sep 2021 to present]
Ms. LUO Xi (the HK PolyU) [Sep 2022 to present]
Mr. JIANG Shuo [Aug 2023 to present]
Ms. ZHANG Wanying (MEng) [Jan 2024 to present]
Mr. YANG Xun [Aug 2024 to present]
Mr. SHI Shaoyue [Aug 2024 to present]
Mr. DU Jingtao [Aug 2024 to present]
Ms. LIU Run [Aug 2024 to present]
Ms. DAI Chang [Aug 2024 to present]