Yuen Kum Fai

Yuen Kum Fai is a Singaporean academic specialising in maritime studies, strategy, and sustainable management. He is currently an Associate Professor and Assistant Chair (Students) in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He also serves as Co-Director of the Maritime Energy & Sustainable Development (MESD) Centre of Excellence. Notably, Dr. Yuen is recognised among the world’s top 2% most influential scientists in both career-long and single-year categories. He is also ranked among the top ten maritime economists in shipping and port management based on the field-weighted citation index (FWCI), with a score of 2.73.

He is an appointed associate editor for ''Maritime Policy & Management'', which is indexed by Web of Science and the flagship journal of international shipping and port research run by Taylor & Francis. In addition, he is an advisory board member for Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives owned by Elsevier. He is also an invited guest editor for the journal, ''Sustainability'', on the special issue 'Sustainable Maritime Transportation Management and Policies', and for Maritime Policy & Management on the special issue 'Artificial Intelligence & Big Data in Shipping'. He is the recipient of the Inauguration Grant which is part of a Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent Scheme that aims to attract Singaporean academics to join Singapore's autonomous universities as pre-tenure assistant professors. His research interests include sustainable shipping management, service quality, supply chain integration, transport economics, and technology and innovation management. As of Mar-2025, Yuen has published over 250 international journal papers. According to Scopus, his h-index and citations are 50 and 7690, respectively. Provided by Wikipedia