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Associate Professor

Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies

Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Email: kai.pan [at] polyu.edu.hk


Kai Pan is currently an Associate Professor in Operations Management at the Faculty of Business of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Director of the MSc Program in Operations Management (MScOM). He serves as a Secretary/Treasurer for the INFORMS Computing Society (ICS). He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Florida, USA, and his Bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University, China. Previously he worked as a Research Scientist at Amazon (Seattle, Washington) on Supply Chain Optimization and a Power System Engineer at GE Grid Solutions (Redmond, Washington) on Electricity Market Operations. His research interests include Stochastic and Discrete Optimization, Robust and Data-Driven Optimization, Dynamic Programming, and their applications in Energy Market, Smart City, Supply Chain, Shared Mobility, Marketing, and Transportation. His research on these topics has been published in Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Production and Operations Management, IISE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Transportation Research Part B, etc. All these journals are top-tier journals in various fields. Dr. Pan was the first-place winner of the prestigious IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2017. His works have been supported by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His PolyU Official Website is here.


Education Background:

Ph.D., Industrial & Systems Engineering, The University of Florida, USA, 2016

M.S., Industrial & Systems Engineering, The University of Florida, USA, 2014

B.S., Industrial Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2010


Recruitment: I am always looking for Ph.D. students who are interested in doing research on decision-making under uncertainty with potential applications in smart city operations, energy market, supply chain management, and transportation. Prospective students with solid backgrounds are welcome to email me with your CV. (Research Assistant / Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow applications are also welcome.) See Ph.D. Student Recruitment for Fall 2024. Also, welcome to join our departmental PhD recruitment workshop.


Updated by Kai Pan (潘凯) in June 2024.