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)

• • 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

• 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

• 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.