Academic Position
Assistant Professor, HKUST Business School, HK, 2020 - present
Education
PhD in Operations Management, Columbia Business School, New York, NY.
M.S. in Management Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
B.S. in Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Teaching Experience
Courses that I taught at HKUST Business School and Columbia Business School
Operations Management (Undergraduate core)
Financial Service Operations Management (Undergraduate elective)
Operations Management (MBA & EMBA core)
Managerial Statistics (MBA & EMBA core)
Service Operations Management (MBA & EMBA)
Supply Chain Management (MBA)
Managerial Negotiation (EMBA)
Quantitative Finance (Master & PhD)
Statistical Inference (Master & PhD)
Honors & Awards
Dean's Recognition of Teaching Excellence, HKUST, 2021, 2022,2023,2024
The 20th ICSSSM Best Paper Competition, 2nd Prize (with Zheng Cui and Daniel Zhuoyu Long), 2025
POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, 2nd Place (with Zhe Liu and Awi Federgruen), 2019
George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, Finalist (with Zhe Liu and Awi Federgruen), 2018
POMS College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition, 2nd Place (with Zhe Liu and Awi Federgruen), 2018
Deming Doctoral Research Fellowship.
Jerome A. Chazen Doctoral Research Grants.
Doctoral Fellowship at Columbia Business School.
Samsung Scholarship Sponsored by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
First Prize of the China Physics Olympiad.
Grants
HKUST Li & Fung Supply Chain Institute Research Grant (PI), "Platform Manipulation in Competitive Crowdfunding", HK$150,000, 2025 - 2027.
Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (PI), "Prior-Independent Mechanism Design: Robust Satisficing Perspective" (Co-I: Zhuoyu Long), HK$915,249, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2025-2028
Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (PI), "Improving Product Quality in a Multi-tier Supply Chain Network: The Roles of Inspection and Pricing" (Co-I: Ruxian Wang), HK$533,633, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2024-2027
NSFC General Program (Co-I), "Research on the inventory management under the supply chain disruption risk warning system" (PI: Li Xiao), RMB460,000, 2023 - 2026
Hong Kong RGC Early Career Scheme (PI), "Building Supply Chain Resilience through Supply Options with Supply Disruptive Risks", HK$794,658, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2022-2025
Faculty Initiation Grant (PI), HKUST Business School, 2020 - 2025
Academic Activities
Reviewer for Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Mathematics of Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Naval Research Logistics, International Journal of Production Economics.
Member of INFORMS, MSOM.