Prof. Wang Yulan 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 received her PhD degree in Business Administration from Duke University, and BS and MS degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests lie in operations and supply chain management, socially sustainable operations, behavioral operations, and operations-IS-marketing interface. She has published over 50 papers in leading academic journals, among which 23 are published on the prestigious UTD journals including Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. Her works have been supported by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Prof. Wang serves as the president of the POMS-HK Chapter, a senior editor of Production and Operations Management and an associate editor of Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics and Omega.