Speakers Highlights
Academic Conference
William Fung, Fung Group
Dr. William Kwok Lun Fung, SBS, OBE, JP, is the Group Deputy Chairman of the Fung Group of companies, a Hong Kong-based multinational engaged in trading, logistics, distribution and retailing.
He serves as Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Convenience Retail Asia Limited, a publicly listed company within the Fung Group. He was the Group Chairman of Li & Fung Limited (privatized in May 2020) until October 2020. Together with his brother, Victor Fung, Dr. Fung played a leading role in driving the development of the supply chain infrastructure at Li & Fung Limited, which enabled it to become the leading consumer goods design, development, sourcing, and logistics company for major retailers and brands around the world.
Dr. Fung has previously held key positions in major trade and business associations. He is a former Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, the Hong Kong Exporters’ Association and the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). He was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in 2008.
Dr. Fung is an independent non-executive director of VTech Holdings Limited, Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited and The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited.
Dr. Fung graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, degrees of Doctor of Business Administration (honoris causa) from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Hong Kong Baptist University and a degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from Wawasan Open University of Malaysia.
Hau L. LEE, Stanford University
Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor Emeritus of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He was the founding faculty director of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED) and was the founding Co-Director of the Stanford Value Chain Innovations Initiative.
Professor Lee’s expertise is in global supply chain management and value chain innovations. He is also interested in how innovating with the value chain can bring forth economic and welfare development in developing economies, especially in light of geopolitical frictions. He has published widely in top journals on supply chain management and was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science. He was inducted to the US National Academy of Engineering, and elected a Fellow of MSOM, POMS, and INFORMS.
Professor Lee had degrees from the University of Hong Kong, the London School of Economics, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the London Business School and the University of Macau.
David Simchi-Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Simchi-Levi holds the MIT William Barton Rogers Professorship (named after the founder & first president of MIT), is a Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and serves as the head of the MIT Data Science Lab. He is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management and business analytics.
His Ph.D. students have accepted faculty positions in leading academic institutes including U. of California Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon U., Columbia U., Cornell U., Duke U., Georgia Tech, Harvard U., U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U. of Michigan, Purdue U. and Virginia Tech.
Professor Simchi-Levi is the former Editor-in-Chief of Management Science (2018-2023), one of the two flagship journals of INFORMS. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for Operations Research (2006-2012), the other flagship journal of INFORMS and for Naval Research Logistics (2003-2005).
In 2023, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious INFORMS Impact Prize for playing a leading role in developing and disseminating a new highly impactful paradigm for the identification and mitigation of risks in global supply chains.
He is an INFORMS Fellow and MSOM Distinguished Fellow and the recipient of the 2020 INFORMS Koopman Award given to an outstanding publication in military operations research; Ford Motor Company 2015 Engineering Excellence Award; 2014 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice; 2014 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award; and 2009 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize.
He was the founder of LogicTools which provided software solutions and professional services for supply chain optimization. LogicTools became part of IBM in 2009. In 2012 he co-founded OPS Rules, an operations analytics consulting company. The company became part of Accenture in 2016. In 2014, he co-founded Opalytics, a cloud analytics platform company focusing on operations and supply chain decisions. The company became part of the Accenture Applied Intelligence in 2018.
Christoph H. Loch, IESE Business School
Christoph Loch is Professor of Operations and Technology Management at IESE Business School in Barcelona. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Management Science since January 1, 2024. Previously he was a professor at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge, where he served as Dean from 2011 to 2021. From 1994-2011, he was a chaired professor at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He had visiting positions at the HSBC Peking University Business School Shenzhen (2023-2024), at the Stockholm School of Economics (2009-2010) and at Hewlett Packard Labs (2002-2003).
For 30 years Prof Loch has worked on innovation and project management, including technology strategy, innovation portfolios, strategy cascading, project selection, the complexity and coordination of concurrent activities, project management under high uncertainty, collaborative problem solving, and performance measurement. He also examines the motivation of professional personnel in organizations, in particular, the emotional aspects of motivation and performance.
Prior to joining INSEAD, Prof Loch worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in San Francisco and Munich. Professor Loch holds a Ph.D. in business from Stanford University, an MBA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and a Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur degree from the Darmstadt Institute of Technology in Germany.
Max Shen, The University of Hong Kong
Concurrent with his role as Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) in HKU, Professor Max Shen is appointed Chair Professor jointly in the Faculty of Engineering (Department of Data and Systems Engineering) and the Faculty of Business and Economics. He is also the Dean of Graduate School, Acting Director of Technology Transfer Office and Knowledge Transfer Office, and the Founding Director of HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science.
Professor Shen obtained his PhD from Northwestern University in 2000. That same year, he began his academic career as Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, and joined the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, where he rose through the ranks to become Chancellor’s Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was also a Center Director at the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University.
With research interests in the areas of logistics and supply chain management, data-driven decision making, and system optimization, Professor Shen’s research programs cut through businesses, energy systems, transportation systems, smart cities, healthcare management, and environmental protection. He has worked closely with industries and has a strong track record of securing major research grants from government agencies and private sector. PhD students and Postdoctoral scholars he graduated now hold positions in leading universities in North America, Europe, and China, as well as at major technological companies globally.
Internationally recognized as a top scholar in his field, Professor Shen is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), a Fellow and past President of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a past President of the Society of Locational Analysis of INFORMS.
Onur Boyabatli, Singapore Management University
Onur Boyabatli is Professor of Operations Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Operations Management from INSEAD, France, M.S. and B.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. His main research interests are in the areas of integrated risk management in global supply chains, operational decision making in commoditized industries with a special focus on agribusiness, manufacturing flexibility and capacity management including integration with financial decisions/risks and new business models, supply chain finance and sustainable operations. His research papers have been published in Management Science and Manufacturing & Services Operations Management journals. He is the co-editor of “Agricultural Supply Chain Management Research - Operations and Analytics in Planting, Selling, and Government Interventions” and “Handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains.” He is currently serving as Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management journal. He was selected for “Most Influential Business Professors under 40” By Singapore Business Review in 2016. He teaches courses related to Decision Analysis, Risk Management in Global Supply Chains, Supply Chain Innovation, and Sustainability at various postgraduate (DBA, Executive, MBA, Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and PhD) and undergraduate levels.
Ying-Ju Chen, Institution Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ying-Ju Chen is the Crown Worldwide Professor of Business and a Chair Professor at HKUST. Previously, he was a faculty member in the Department of IEOR at UC Berkeley. He earned his PhD in Operations Management from the Stern School of Business at New York University in 2007 and holds master's and bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.
He is a recipient of Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence at HKUST, NYU teaching excellence award, "Most Influential Service Operations" and "Best Not-for-Profit Operations Management" paper awards in Production and Operations Management, Harold W. Kuhn Award of Naval Research Logistics, Second place of INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) paper competition, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Social Science, third prize), and the Harold MacDowell Award from Stern School. He is ranked No. 3 among Operations Management researchers world-wide according to an article in POM (2025).
His editorial roles include department editor for NRL and Service Science, and senior/associate editor for OR, M&SOM, and POM journals. His research interests encompass network economics, socially responsible operations, the operations-marketing interface, and supply chain management, with work published in leading journals across various fields.
Zhenyu Hu, National University of Singapore
Zhenyu Hu is a Dean’s Chair Associate Professor at the Department of Analytics & Operations at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor in mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University. His research focuses on dynamic pricing and revenue management, supply chain management, and mechanism and information design. He currently serves as an associate editor for M&SOM.
Ying Rong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Dr. Ying Rong is a Professor of Management Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Dr. Rong's research interests include service operations, retail operations, operations in emerging business models and data-driven optimization. His papers have been published in Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics and IIE Transaction, etc. He has received multiple research awards such as the first prize in the MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition (2025), the MSOM MSOM Journal Best Paper (2018, 2019), TSL Best Paper (2019), the INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources & Environment Young Researcher Prize (2014).
Stephen Shum, City University of Hong Kong
Professor Stephen Shum is currently Associate Provost (Quality Assurance and Accountability) and Dean (College of Business) at the City University of Hong Kong. He conducts research in supply chain management, revenue management and the operations-marketing interface, and he teaches courses in operations management and revenue management. He has received RGC GRF grant for numerous research projects. He was awarded the Dean's Research Excellence Award in 2019 and the College of Business Teaching Excellence Award in 2020. He is an Associate Editor of Naval Research Logistics and Journal of the Operations Research Society, and he is on the Editorial Review Board of Produciton and Operations Management. Professor Shum received his PhD in Operations Research from MIT. Prior to that, he received his BSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from UCLA.
Shilu Tong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Shilu Tong is a professor and the associate dean at School of Management and Economics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He received his Ph.D. degree in Operations Management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Fudan University. His research interests focus on the issues of contracting, information sharing and competition in supply chain management, and the interface between marketing and operations.
Yulan Amanda Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yulan Wang is currently a full professor and associated head (research) of the Department of the Logistics and Maritime Studies at Faculty of Business of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has a broad research interest in operations and supply chain management, behavioral operations, and operations-IS-marketing interface. Her research work has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. Dr Wang serves as a senior editor of Production and Operations Management and an associate editor of Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics and Omega. She currently serves as the president of POMS-HK Chapter.
Jing Wu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Jing Wu is a Professor in the Department of Decisions, Operations, and Technology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He is the Director of the Master of Science Programme in Business Analytics, the Director of Centre of Cyber Logistics, and the Associate Director of the Asian Institute of Supply Chains & Logistics. His academic credentials include a PhD from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University.
Professor Wu’s research focuses on global supply chain management, the operations-finance interface, Fintech, and business intelligence. His research insights have been featured in over 400 media outlets across more than 20 countries, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Forbes. He is an associate editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. He is the founding chairman of the Workshop on Empirical Operations Management (WEOM), a research platform dedicated to supporting empirical researchers in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Prior to academia, Professor Wu gained valuable industry experience as a quantitative strategist at Deutsche Bank in New York and as a business analyst at McKinsey in Shanghai.
Xiaole Wu, Fudan University
Xiaole Wu is a Professor at the School of Management, Fudan University, and Director of Fudan Center for Global Supply Chains. She received her PhD in Management from Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis in 2011, and bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2006. Her research interests include global supply chain management, risk management, and the interfaces between operations and other disciplines. She has published in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Energy Economics, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, etc. She serves as an Associate Editor at Management Science and Naval Research Logistics, a Senior Editor at Production and Operations Management, and a Department Editor at Journal of Management Sciences in China. She is a principal investigator of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China. She consults for State Grid, Huawei, ZTE, SAIC MAXUS, etc.