PhD Summer School on Operations and Supply Chain Management

Professor Tolga Bektas is Professor of Logistics Management at the University of Liverpool Management School. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering (2005) from Bilkent University and held academic posts at the University of Montreal and the University of Southampton.

His research interests are in the planning and optimisation of operations arising within freight logistics and distribution, including vehicle routing and scheduling, railway timetable optimisation, maintenance planning in sea vessels and last-mile distribution in cities, with an emphasis on reducing environmental externalities from transport.

Professor Zlatko Bodrožić is a Professor of Digital Enterprise at the University of Liverpool Management School. He is interested in the interaction of technologies, organisational paradigms and public policy (see, for example, his research published in ‘Administrative Science Quarterly’, 2018; ‘Organization Science’, 2022; ‘Production and Operations Management’, forthcoming).

Zlatko’s current research focuses on the evolution of these three spheres in response to grand challenges such as digital transformation or climate change.

Professor Jason Choi is currently Chair in Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM), and Director of the Centre for Supply Chain Research at University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS).

He has published extensively in leading journals in OSCM. He is currently serving the profession as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. He has been listed as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate (Web of Science) since 2022.

Professor Manpreet Hora is the Senior Associate Dean for Programs and the Dean’s Distinguished Term Professor at the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

His research empirically addresses specific challenges in three areas: managing operational risk through capturing knowledge from low-frequency high-impact operational failures, building learning and innovation capabilities in supply chain management, and codifying knowledge in processes and routines.

Professor Hora has published in journals such as Management Science, Journal of Operations Management (JOM), and Production and Operations Management (POM). His research awards include the Chan Hahn Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management and his work has been covered by NPR, CNN Money, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

He served as the Chair for the AOM- OSCM division and completed his five-year term in 2019. He currently serves as the Service Management Special Interest Group (SIG) Chair for the MSOM Society. Professor Hora serves as a Department Editor for JOM and a Senior Editor for the POM journal.

Professor Hora has developed and taught Service Operations Management and Empirical Methods and has published several teaching cases. His teaching awards include the Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teaching Award, the CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and the Brady Family Award for Faculty Teaching Excellence.

Prior to joining academia, Professor Hora worked at Deutsche Bank in various capacities in Singapore, New York, and London. His last appointment involved managing an operations team in foreign exchange derivatives in Frankfurt, Germany. He received his PhD from University of Western Ontario (Canada), MBA from Griffith University (Australia) and is a CFA charterholder from the CFA Institute.

Professor Tingliang Huang is the Amazon Distinguished Professor of Business Analytics at the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee (UT), and the Business Analytics PhD Program Recruiting Lead.

He is also an Honorary Professor at UCL School of Management, University College London (UCL), UK. His research articles have been published in top business journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), Marketing Science, Management Science, and Production and Operations Management.

He has won various research & teaching awards including the 2023 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science Best Paper Award, 2018 POMS Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Accomplishments Award, the 2018 Most Influential Paper Award in Service Operations, the 2015 Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award, the Teaching Star Award, among others.

He was recognized by the Management Science and M&SOM Meritorious Service Awards six times for his exceptional services to these journals. He is an Associate Editor for M&SOM, Service Science, Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, and IISE Transactions, and a Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management. His former PhD students hold tenured faculty positions in research universities in the US and China.

He received his doctorate from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, master’s from the University of Minnesota, and bachelor’s from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He was the William S. McKiernan Family ’78 Faculty Fellow & tenured at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College before joining UT.

Professor Hugo Lam is Chair in Operations Management and Director of Research (Operations and Supply Chain Management) at the University of Liverpool Management School. He obtained his PhD in Operations Management from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Hugo’s research focuses on operational implications of emerging technology adoption and sustainable supply chain management, with relevant papers published or forthcoming in Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and International Journal of Operations & Production Management, among others.

He is serving the Operations Management community as a Co- Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Operations & Production Management and an Associate Editor of Journal of Operations Management.

Professor Andy Lyons is Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management and Head of the Operations & Supply Chain Management Department at the University of Liverpool Management School.

He has significant and varied experiences in research, teaching, leadership and knowledge exchange and has published over sixty journal articles and one book. He has been awarded over £4M of direct research and knowledge exchange funding.

He is a member of the School Management Committee and University Senate and was a former Interim Head of the Marketing Department and Head of the Marketing & Operations Department at the University.

His expertise and research interests are broadly in the area operations and supply chain management and design. This includes supply strategy and the design of supply chain performance measurement systems, the scrutiny of supply chain practices through innovative mapping and modelling techniques, the examination of the effectiveness of lean practices, digital strategy development and analytics to support growth in SMEs, and the examination of mass customisation and variety management challenges.

His current, externally-funded, and most-prominent research concerns an EC Interreg-funded project looking to reduce the environmental footprint of seafood supply chains, a NERC-funded project on the business model and sustainability implications of improving the circularity of plastic packaging, and an ERDF-funded project on the introduction of industry 4.0 technologies to SMEs. Professor Lyons has supervised over 25 PhD students.

Professor Jo Meehan is a Professor of Responsible Procurement and the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at the University of Liverpool Management School.

Jo’s research centres on modern slavery in supply chains, social value in public procurement, and corporate power. Her work explores the commercial practices that allow social inequalities and environmental harm to persist, and crucially, what might be done to enable systemic change. Her work has won numerous international awards and she has been described in the business press as “one of the UK’s most influential procurement academics”.

She is a regular public speaker on responsible business and has extensively published in world-leading academic journals and in the professional press. Jo’s research has been referenced by the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Environment Programme, the UK’s National Health System, the UK Government’s Crown Commercial Service, and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, as well as numerous corporate organisations.

Jo is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management and champions the journal’s ’business-not-as- usual’ research.

Professor Dongping Song is a Chair of Supply Chain Management in the University of Liverpool Management School. He obtained his PhD at Newcastle University and previously served as a Professor of International Logistics at Plymouth University Business School.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of CILT. Currently he serves as an Associate Editor for Transportation Research Part E and for International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics.

His research interests include applying mathematical modelling, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and simulation-based tools to various supply chain, maritime transport and logistics systems, especially in the presence of uncertainty and risk, with the goal to advance knowledge and assist industries in improving operational efficiency and reducing emissions.

He has managed a number of research projects funded by EPSRC, ESRC, Royal Society, British Council, European Commission, and Chinese Research Councils. He has published five monographs in the areas of supply chain, transport, and logistics, including “Optimal Control and Optimization in Stochastic Supply Chain Systems” by Springer in 2013, and “Container Logistics and Maritime Transport” by Routledge in 2021.

Dr Daniel Xing is an Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management in the University of Liverpool Management School.

He obtained his PhD from the same institution, focusing his research on enhancing the profitability of tank container operators through optimized container network design, efficient decision-making in job fulfillment, and cost-effective empty container repositioning.

Before pursuing his studies in England, Daniel accrued nearly four years of experience at various companies, including Toyota and SpecTec (a shipping management consultancy), in China. His academic pursuits and professional background synergize adeptly, enabling him to bridge theoretical research with practical business applications seamlessly.

Daniel's expertise lies in maritime logistics, road transport, and supply chain management, with a keen interest in emerging technology applications in supply chain management (e.g. AI and blockchain). His research articles have been published in esteemed business journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, and Annals of Operations Research, among others.

Currently he serves as an editorial board member for Transportation Research Part E and for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.