Dr. Li is an associate professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SPCEET), Kennesaw State University, where she also serves as the graduate program coordinator for MS. Engineering Management and MS. Systems Engineering. Before joining KSU in 2017, she worked in the industry for six years in companies such as IBM Research Center and Sabre Corporation.
Dr. Li has extensive training and experience, both academically and professionally, in decision analysis using quantitative models and statistical analysis. Her current research focuses on utilizing machine-learning methods from data science, algorithmic & simulation techniques from decision science, as well as theories from social sciences to study both strategic and operational level system decisions with applications in supply chain management, logistics, and healthcare analytics. Her professional work experience is closely related to applying statistical methods and simulations to study demand modeling in the travel industry. She has worked on several projects developing predictive models using large airline datasets and consumer retail datasets to facilitate decision-support applications. Dr. Li is a member of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS), the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and Decision Science Institute (DSI).
2023 - present Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Kennesaw State University
2017 - 2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Kennesaw State University
2014 - 2014 Adjunct faculty, MAYS Business School, Texas A&M University
2010 - 2014 Senior Researcher, Operations Research Group, Sabre Corporation
2008 - 2010 Postdoctoral Researcher, Business Analytics & Mathematical Science, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Ph.D. Operations Research, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
M.S. Operations Research, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
B.S. Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
