His principle research interests are in Global Supply Chain Management, Dynamic Revenue Management, Applications of Auction Theory, and Production Scheduling. He has published articles in Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operations Research and other high quality academic journals. He received his Bachelors and Masters degree in Control Theory from Nankai University in China. He received a Ph. D degree in Operations Research from Hong Kong Polytechnic University as well as a Ph. D degree in Operations Management from Washington University at St. Louis.