Contact Professor Ying Xie
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- Email: Ying.Xie@cranfield.ac.uk
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Background
Prof. Ying Xie received her PhD degree in Management Science from Coventry University. Currently she is the Professor in Supply Chain Analytics in Cranfield School of Management. Prior to this, she was the Head of School in Economics, Finance and Law and the Director of Centre for Intelligent Supply Chain, Anglia Ruskin University.
With a background in Engineering and Science, Ying successfully applies the scientific tools to resolve business problems in multiple disciplines, including Operations Management, Finance, Healthcare, Disaster Management, Sustainability and many more. Ying has successfully won and completed over 20 projects, totalling more than £20m, including projects from EPSRC, Innovate UK, EU Horizon, Connected Places Catapult, Health Education England, ERDF and industries.
Ying has been invited to be an expert reviewer or panel member for several funding bodies, including UKRI MRC, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, LGC Health Research Programme, UK, Made Smarter Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hub under Digital Catapult, UK, and Fondazione Cariplo Italy.
Ying is a Principal Fellow of the HEA, which is a recognition of the impact she makes at a strategic level to academic practice and leadership in teaching and enhancing the student learning experience.
Research opportunities
Co-Investigator, Design of a Floating Solar Charge Station for the Electric Vessels at the Port of Dover, Connect Places Catapult, £44,922, 2024.
Co-Investigator, Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Aviation, EPSRC, UKRI, £7.6 million, 2024-2031.
Principle Investigator and Academic Supervisor, A novel Events Environmental Sustainability Platform, UKRI Innovate UK, Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Julia Charles Events Management company, £174,461, 2023-2025.
Co-Investigator, the UK National Clean Maritime Research Club, UKRI EPSRC and Department for Transport, the project has over 70 industrial partners, including the Port of Dover, the Port of Felixstowe, Cosco Shipping Ltd (UK), Peels Port, DFDS, and more. A total value of £21.3 million, with £7.4million from EPSRC and Department of Transport, and £13.9million from industries and partner universities, 2023-2027.
Co-Investigator, Digitalisation for operational efficiency and GHG emission reduction at container ports (EP/W028492/1), EPSRC, Siemens and NVIDIA, US, £42,605 + A100 for PCIe 80GB GPU sponsored by NVIDIA, 2022.
Principal Investigator and Academic Lead: An innovative Supply Chain Sustainability toolkit and live dashboard to reduce environmental impacts (Ref No.10015719), Innovate UK, Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Hexcel Composites Ltd. UK, £173,418, 2022-24.
Principal Investigator: Population health profiles and workforce planning, Health Education England, £85,399, 2022.
Co-Investigator: Multi-hazard and risk informed system for Enhanced local and regional Disaster risk management (MEDiate, 101074075), Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON), ~5million, 2022-25.
Principal Investigator: Sustainable Transformation in Business Practice (Application ID: 877748439), British Council, Going Global Partnerships Grant, Dr B C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, India, £30,000, 2022.
Co-Investigator, Standard driven high quality development mechanism, path and micro incentive policy research in logistics industry, National Social Science Fund, China, £25,000, 2021-24.
Principal Investigator and Academic Supervisor, Big Data driven Business Intelligence System (Ref No 1025918), Innovate UK, Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Simarco International Ltd. UK, £238,000, 2019-20.
Principal Investigator, Low Carbon KEEP project, funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Cost Centre Services Ltd, £34,116.67, 2014-15.
Ying has supervised many PhDs to successful completions, and she has successfully secured external funds to sponsor two PhD scholarships. One project addresses yard management for the Port of Felixstowe using machine learning models, and the other project collaborates with Ocado Technology to develop digital twins of individuals. Ying would be keen to supervise PhDs in the following areas:
Renewable energy supply chain configuration and analytics, such as green hydrogen supply chain
Supply chain digitalisation and decarbonisation
Supply chain collaboration, governance and resilience
Application of operational research/management science/data science/AI in the areas of supply chain or financial market, or healthcare/wellbeing
Current activities
Ying is currently leading the Co-Innovation methodology and impacts group in the EPSRC funded UK National Clean Maritime Hub, feeding the research output into a clean maritime strategy that can adapt to place based challenges andn provide targeted technical and socio-economic interventions. She also leads the academic and research activities in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Aviation, training the next generation of talents to accelerate the transition towards Net Zero in aviation.
As research expert in port management, Ying contributed to the report of "UK Ports the Future" commissioned by the Department of Transport, which supports the Government's maritime 2050 strategy. She also supported Essex County Council to develop the Freeport East proposal to unify Felixstowe and Harwich ports. Ying's research on global supply chains and sustainability has attracted considerable attention from the media; Ying has been interviewed by BBC Radio, BBC International Television, ABC News Australia and she has published many articles in a range of media.
Ying is also board member in the Strategy Advisory Board for Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hub, Digital Catapult. The hub is designed to drive innovations for all potential users. The programme run by the hub has drawn £10m award from UK Research and Innovation and will draw another £10m investment from the private sector, to accelerate commercial integration of advanced and emerging digital technologies across manufacturing supply chains in the aerospace, defence, pharmaceutical, fabrication and logistics sectors over the next four years.
Clients
- Ocado Group PLC
- Port of Felixstowe
- Health Education England (NHS)
- Port of Dover Limited
- Julia Charles Events Management
- Rux Energy UK Limited
- Oracle
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Wanigarathna N, Xie Y, Henjewele C, Morga M & Jones K. (2025). Machine learning application to disaster damage repair cost modelling of residential buildings. Construction Management and Economics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print)
- Jahangard M, Xie Y & Feng Y. (2025). Leveraging machine learning and optimization models for enhanced seaport efficiency. Maritime Economics & Logistics
- Xie Y, Arman SM & Su C. (2025). Circular economy in post consumption network: the role of re-commerce groups in social media platforms. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 70
- Ibrahim KA, Maréchal TL, Luk P, Qin Q, Huang L, .... (2025). Floating solar wireless power transfer system for electric ships: design and laboratory tests. Energy Conversion and Management, 332
- Zhao G, Xie Y, Dennehy D & Fosso Wamba S. (2025). Understanding supply chain knowledge mobilization barriers from the middle‐range perspective: an empirical investigation of Argentina's agri‐food industry. Journal of Business Logistics, 46(2)
- Kiran M, Xie Y, Anjum N, Ball G, Pierscionek B, .... (2025). Machine learning and artificial intelligence in type 2 diabetes prediction: a comprehensive 33-year bibliometric and literature analysis. Frontiers in Digital Health, 7
- Xie Y, Wang J, Liu W, Wang H, Pan Y, .... (2025). AGCTO: Attributed Graph Clustering With Transitive Order Convolutional Autoencoder. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, PP(99)
- Xie Y, Wang J, Xu Z, Shen J, Wen L, .... (2025). Alignable kernel network. Information Fusion, 115
- Liu Y, Li Y, Xia X, Liu Z, Su Z, .... (2025). Prevalence and Socioeconomic Disparities of Cigar Use in China: Findings from the China Health Literacy Survey with a Focus on the ‘Knowledgeable but Economically Marginalized’ (KEM) Population. Healthcare, 13(6)
- Long SC, Xie Y, Zhou Z, Lucey B & Urquhart A. (2025). From whales to waves: Social media sentiment, volatility, and whales in cryptocurrency markets. The British Accounting Review
- Ling-Chin J, Simpson R, Cairns A, Wu D, Xie Y, .... (2024). Research and innovation identified to decarbonise the maritime sector. Green Energy and Sustainability
- Liu S, Xie Y & Liang W. (2024). Optimisation of the circular economy based on the resource circulation equation. Sustainability, 16(15)
- Liang W, Song S, Xie Y & Liu S. (2024). The roles of directors from related industries on enterprise innovation. Sustainability, 16(16)
- Xie Y, Breen L, Oakey A, Bak O & Cherrett T. (2024). Assessment of primary care services operational resilience by patients: Implications for COVID-19 recovery. European Management Journal
- Xie Y, Obaidat MS, Gao X, Ning X & Li X. (2024). A Route Prediction Method of Logistics Distribution Based on Historical Data Analysis. HUMAN-CENTRIC COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES, 14
- Mang Y, Gao Y, Yang Y, Dong M, Yang Q, .... (2024). Experience on AMR Diagnosis and Treatment Following Liver Transplantation: Case Series. Transplantation Direct, 10(4)
- Pan S & Long (Cheng) S. (2023). Nonlinear asset pricing in Chinese stock market: a deep learning approach. International Review of Financial Analysis, 87(May)
- Zheng J, Wei J, Xie Y, Chen S, Li J, .... (2023). Decision tool of medical endoscope maintenance service in Chinese hospitals: a conjoint analysis. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1)
- Xie Y, Xu R & Yang Y. (2023). Transferable graph neural networks with deep alignment attention. Information Sciences, 643
- Xu R, Liu Z, Lin Y, Feng X, Lin H, .... (2023). Unified adaptive deep classification for industrial real‐time situation awareness in edge environment. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 35(14)
- Jia Z, Liu Q, Xie Y, Wei J, Sun X, .... (2023). Klotho/FGF23 Axis Regulates Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis and Cytokine Release through ERK/MAPK Pathway. Cardiovascular Toxicology, 23(9-10)
- Feng Y, Song D-P, Li D & Xie Y. (2022). Service fairness and value of customer information for the stochastic container relocation problem under flexible service policy. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 167(November)
- Long SC, Lucey B, Xie Y & Yarovaya L. (2022). “I just like the stock”: the role of Reddit sentiment in the gamestop share rally. Financial Review, 58(1)
- Xie Y, Zhao Y, Chen Y & Allen C. (2022). Green construction supply chain management: Integrating governmental intervention and public–private partnerships through ecological modernisation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 331(January)
- Xie Y, Allen C & Ali M. (2022). Critical success factor based resource allocation in ERP implementation: A nonlinear programming model. Heliyon, 8(8)
- Xie Y, Xing Z, Wei J, Sun X, Zhao B, .... (2022). Levosimendan Postconditioning Attenuates Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis after Myocardial Infarction. Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2022(1)
- Jiang D, Xu R, Xu X & Xie Y. (2021). Multi-view feature transfer for click-through rate prediction. Information Sciences, 546
- Huang Y, Li Z, Guo H, Han D, Yuan F, .... (2021). Dynamic changes in chest CT findings of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in different disease stages: a multicenter study. Annals of Palliative Medicine, 10(1)
- Zheng J, Lou L, Xie Y, Chen S, Li J, .... (2020). Model construction of medical endoscope service evaluation system-based on the analysis of Delphi method. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1)
- Xu R, Wu J, Cheng Y, Liu Z, Lin Y, .... (2020). Dynamic Security Exchange Scheduling Model for Business Workflow Based on Queuing Theory in Cloud Computing. Security and Communication Networks, 2020(1)
- Xu R, Cheng Y, Liu Z, Xie Y & Yang Y. (2020). Improved Long Short-Term Memory based anomaly detection with concept drift adaptive method for supporting IoT services. Future Generation Computer Systems, 112
- Xu R, Che Y, Wang X, Hu J & Xie Y. (2020). Stacked autoencoder-based community detection method via an ensemble clustering framework. Information Sciences, 526
- Chen T, Jin Y, Lv H, Yang A, Liu M, .... (2020). Applications of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Grid-Scale Energy Storage Systems. Transactions of Tianjin University, 26(3)
- Xie Y & Wu J. (2019). Multi-objective constraint task scheduling algorithm for multi-core processors. Cluster Computing, 22(3)
- Xie Y, Wang X, Jiang D & Xu R. (2019). High-performance community detection in social networks using a deep transitive autoencoder. Information Sciences, 493
- Xie Y, Zhu Y, Wang Y, Cheng Y, Xu R, .... (2019). A novel directional and non-local-convergent particle swarm optimization based workflow scheduling in cloud–edge environment. Future Generation Computer Systems, 97
- Xie Y, Jiang D, Wang X & Xu R. (2019). Robust transfer integrated locally kernel embedding for click-through rate prediction. Information Sciences, 491
- Zhang L, Yang S, Wu X, Cheng F, Xie Y, .... (2019). An indexed set representation based multi-objective evolutionary approach for mining diversified top-k high utility patterns. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 77
- Xie Y & Song D-P. (2018). Optimal planning for container prestaging, discharging, and loading processes at seaport rail terminals with uncertainty. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 119
- Xu R, Wang M & Xie Y. (2018). Optimally Connected Deep Belief Net for Click Through Rate Prediction in Online Advertising. IEEE Access, 6
- Xie Y, Breen L, Cherrett T, Zheng D & Allen CJ. (2016). An exploratory study of reverse exchange systems used for medical devices in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 21(2)
- Cheng F, Sun D & Xie Y. (2015). TOPRANK: A NOVEL TOP-K RANKING METHOD BASED ON RANK AGGREGATION. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE COMPUTING INFORMATION AND CONTROL, 11(2)
- Xie Y & Breen L. (2014). Who cares wins? A comparative analysis of household waste medicines and batteries reverse logistics systems. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 19(4)
- Xie Y, Luo B & Xu R. (2013). The learning system of collective behavior in students’ social network. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 39(8)
- Liu S, Xie Y, Liang W, Liu T & Luo S. Study on Eco-Efficiency Optimization Based on LCA-MFCA Integration Method: A Case Study on the Cement Industry. The Journal of Environment & Development
