He received his Ph.D. degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2002, and his Master and Bachelor degrees in Automatic Control from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1996 and 1993, respectively. Prior to joining CUHK, Dr. Zhu worked as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2002 to 2010. He has research interests in global supply chain management, and his works have been published in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Services Management, and Production and Operations Management.