Main research area

• Management Science

• Mathematical Optimization

• Solution algorithm, Simulation, Artificial Intelligence

• Production & Logistics System, Supply Chain Management

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Logistics System & Untact Delivery

• Hotel & Tourism Management

Education

• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Purdue University, 2016

• Ph.D., KAIST, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Korea, 2015.

• M.S., KAIST, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Korea, 2011.

• B.S., Korea University, Department of Industrial Management Engineering, 2009.

Academic Career

• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Purdue University, USA, 2016 – 2018.

• Assistant Professor, Asia Pacific School of Logistics, Inha University, 2019.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial & Management Systems Engineering, Kyung Hee University, 2019 – 2023.

• Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering, Korea University, 2023 - Present. 

Research Projects

• National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF): Real-time last mile delivery system using collaborative ground-aerial movable stations: Theory, algorithm and application.  PI: Byung Duk Song. Received June 1, 2023

• Korea Railroad Research Institute: Project entitled: 화물적재 의사결정 시스템 시제품 설계 및 제작. PI: Byung Duk Song. Received April 15, 2023

• Korea Railroad Research Institute: Project entitled: 친환경 말단배송장비 운영전략 수립을 위한 운영효과 분석방법론 개발 및 평가. PI: Byung Duk Song. Received April 1, 2023

• H&T Corporation: 3차원 차량 적재 최적 알고리즘 개발 연구. PI: Byung Duk Song. Received April 25, 2022

• Korea Railroad Research Institute: Project entitled: 지속가능형 친환경 말단배송장비의 효과 평가 기법 개발. PI: Byung Duk Song. Received April 1, 2022     

• Korea Railroad Research Institute: Project entitled: 친환경 말단배송장비 스케쥴링 용역과제. PI: Byung Duk Song. Received October 19, 2021     

• Jungseok Logistics Foundation: 1 year research grant. PI: Byung Duk Song. Received: January 1, 2021.     

• SEMES: Project entitled: Demand forecasting consulting. PI: Byung Duk Song. Received: January 1, 2020.

• Samsung Electronics: Project entitled: Optimization of OHT rail design in Fab Received: January 1, 2020.

• National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF): Project entitled: Movable Unmanned Aerial System (MUAS) for Persistent UAV Service: Theory and Algorithm. PI: Byung Duk Song. Received: June 1, 2019.

• Samsung Electronics: Project entitled: FAB layout design. Received: March 1, 2019.

• National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF): Project entitled: UAV (drone) based infrastructure design for efficient disaster management and operation. PI: Byung Duk Song. Received: September 1, 2017.

• KAIST Institutes (KI): Project entitled: UAV service system: Convergence of UAV, networking and decision technology (continue). Received: October 1, 2014.

• KAIST Institutes (KI): Project entitled: UAV service system: Convergence of UAV, networking and decision technology. Received: June 1, 2014.

• National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF): Theory, algorithms and implementation of robotic service agents. Received: June 1, 2013.

• National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF): Project entitled: Location and operation of public medical facilities. Received: May  l, 2012

• KAIST High Risk High Return Project (HRHRP): funding provided by the Korean Ministry of Science, Education and Technology (MEST). Project entitled: UAV service agent. Received: January 1, 2012.

• National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF): Project entitled: Analysis and streamlining of reverse logistics. Received: Dec,2007

(S)SCI(E) Publications (selected)

• Taehoon Lee, So Rim Han and Byung Duk Song* (2023). Optimization of OmniChannel Distribution Network Using Micro Fulfillment Center Under Demand Uncertainty. IEEE Access. (SCIE)

• Jeongjoon Boo, Seung Yeob Lee and Byung Duk Song* (2023). The UAM sevice network: multi-objective and multi-period design for UAM airports. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics. (SSCI)

• So Rim Han and Byung Duk Song* (2023). Optimal operation scheduling of mobile hydrogen charging stations: A mathematical optimization model and heuristic approach. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 48(90), 35011-35025. (SCIE)

• Ho Young Jeong, Byung Duk Song*, Seokcheon Lee (2022).Optimal scheduling and quantitative analysis for multi-flying warehouse scheduling problem: Amazon airborne fulfillment center. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 143, 103831 (SCIE, JCR 10%)

• Byung Duk Song, Hyorin Park, & Kyungsu Park* (2022). Toward Flexible and Persistent UAV Service: Multi-Period and Multi-Objective System Design with Task Assignment for Disaster Management. Expert Systems with Applications, 206, 117855. (SCIE, JCR 10%)

• Seung Yeob Lee, So Rim Han and Byung Duk Song*. Simultaneous Cooperation of Refrigerated Ground Vehicle (RGV) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Rapid Delivery with Perishable Food, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 106, 844-866. (SCIE, JCR 10%)

• Kyungsu Park, Jonghoe Kim, Young Dae Ko, Byung Duk Song* (2021). Redesign of reverse logistics network with managerial decisions on the minimum quality level and remanufacturing policy. Journal of the Operational Research Society,  72(7): 1564-1577. (SSCI)

• Young Dae Ko, and Byung Duk Song* (2021). Application of UAVs for tourism security and safety", Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 33(8): 1829-1843.(SSCI)

• Young Dae Ko, Byung Duk Song, Kyungsu Park* (2021). Efficient food service chain management considering substitute products. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 33(2): 669-687. (SSCI)

• Ho Young Jeong, Byung Duk Song*, Seokcheon Lee (2020). The Flying Warehouse Delivery System: A Quantitative Approach for the Optimal Operation Policy of Airborne Fulfillment Center. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Accepted. (SCIE, JCR 5%)   

• Young Dae Ko, Byung Duk Song* (2020). Creative service design for airline's extra revenue. Current Issues in Tourism,  23(20): 2585-2601 (SSCI).

• Ho Young Jeong, Byung Duk Song*, Seokcheon Lee (2019). Truck-drone hybrid delivery routing: Payload-energy dependency and no-fly zones. International Journal of Production Economics, 214:220-233. (SCIE, JCR 5%)

• Young Dae Ko and Byung Duk Song* (2019). Sustainable service design and revenue management for electric tour bus systems: Seoul city tour bus service and the eco-mileage program. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27(3): 308-326. (SSCI, JCR 10%)

• Hongyue Jin, Byung Duk Song*, Yuehwern Yih and John W Sutherland (2019). A bi-objective network design for value recovery of neodymium-iron-boron magnets: A case study of the United States. Journal of Cleaner Production, 211: 257-269. (SCIE, JCR 10%)

• Byung Duk Song, Kyungsu Park and Jonghoe Kim* (2018). Persistent UAV delivery logistics: MILP formulation and efficient heuristic, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 120: 418-428. (SCIE)

• Hongyue Jin, Byung Duk Song, Gamini Mendis, Yuehwern Yih and John W Sutherland* (2018). A location-allocation model for sustainable NdFeB magnet recovery under uncertainties, CIRP Annals Manufacturing Technology, 67: 37-40. (SCIE)

• Hongyue Jin, Byung Duk Song*, Yuehwern Yih, John W. Sutherland (2018). Sustainable Value Recovery of NdFeB Magnet: A Multi-Objective Network Design and Genetic Algorithm, ACS Sustainable Chemnistry & Engineering, 6:4767-4775. (SCIE, JCR 10%)

• Byung Duk Song, Young Dae Ko* (2017). Effect of Inspection Policies and Residual Value of Collected Used Products: A Mathematical Model and Genetic Algorithm for a Closed-Loop Green Manufacturing System, Sustainability, 9(9): 1589-1602. (SSCI)

• Byung Duk Song, Young Dae Ko* (2017). Quantitative approaches for economic use of emerging technology in the tourism industry: unmanned aerial vehicle systems, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 22(12): 1207-1220. (SSCI)

• Byung Duk Song, Young Dae Ko* (2017). Quantitative approaches for location decision strategies of hotel chain network, International Journal of Hospitality Management, 67: 75-86. (SSCI)

• Byung Duk Song, Jonghoe Kim and James R. Morrison*. (2016). Rolling Horizon Path Planning of an Automated System of UAVs for Persistent Cooperative Service: MILP formulation and Efficient Heuristics, Journal of Intelligent Robotics Systems, 84(1-4): 241-258. (SCIE)

• Young Dae Ko, Byung Duk Song* and Hark Hwang. (2016). Location, capacity and capability design of emergency medical centers with multiple emergency diseases, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 101: 10-20. (SCIE)

• Byung Duk Song and Young Dae Ko*. (2016). A Vehicle Routing Problem of both Refrigerator- and General- Type Vehicles for Perishable Food Product Delivery, Journal of Food Engineering, 169: 61-71. (SCI)

• Byung Duk Song, Young Dae Ko, Hark Hwang*. (2015). The design of capacitated facility networks for long term care service, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 89:177-185. (SCIE)

• Byung Duk Song, Jonghoe Kim, Jeongwoon Kim, Hyorin Park, James R. Morrison* and David Hyunchul Shim. (2014). Persistent UAV service: An improved scheduling formulation and prototypes of system components, Journal of Intelligent Robotics Systems, 74(1-2): 221-232. (SCIE)

• Byung Duk Song, James R. Morrison and Young Dae Ko*. (2013). Efficient location and allocation strategies for undesirable facilities considering their fundamental properties, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 65: 475-484. (SCIE)

• Jonghoe Kim, Byung Duk Song, James R. Morrison*. (2013). On the scheduling of systems of heterogeneous UAVs and fuel service stations for long-term mission fulfillment, Journal of Intelligent Robotics Systems, 70(1-4): 347-359. (SCIE)