2026 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management-China(IEOM-China 2026)

Vinod's research has focused on the impact of operating decisions on accounting and stock market based performance measures. His research has been supported through grants from the US Department of Labor, National Science Foundation, the American Society of Quality, and the Sloan Foundation. He has published extensively in academic journals and has made more than 130 presentations at different universities. His research has been recognized in the practitioner community through his many articles in industry-practitioner journals and frequent invited presentations as keynote speaker at practitioner conferences. His work has been cited well over 200 times in practitioner publications such as Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, Smart Money, CFO Europe, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, and Daily Telegraph.Vinod is a Departmental Editor ofProduction and Operations Management, and Associate Editor ofJournal of Operations Management, Management Science,andManufacturing and Service Operations Management. He is on the Academic Advisory Board of the European School of Management and Technology, Germany. He has served on the Board of Examiners of the Georgia Oglethorpe Award, Bell South's President Quality Award, and the Baldrige Board of Examiners.

Vinod's teaching interests include operations strategy and supply chain management. He has taught at the undergraduate, MBA, executive, and PhD programs and has won teaching awards at the MBA level. His contributions to curriculum development are diverse and deep including those made while serving as Associate Dean of MBA Programs and area coordinator of Operations Management. He has contributed to teaching at an international level, as well, by offering research workshops in countries including Australia, China, France, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, and United Kingdom.

Prof. Perter Shi🎓︎ Macquarie University, Australia Speech Title:Strategies for Publishing in International SSCI Journals: Insights from an International Editor-in-Chief Bio:Professor Peter Shiis a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (FIEOM). He is Discipline Lead for Supply Chain Management in the Master of Commerce program at Macquarie University, Australia (2026 QS ranking: 138), and a doctoral supervisor. He also serves as Chair of CILT-A New South Wales, Director of the Centre for Transport and International Supply Chain Research, Co-Director of the International Centre for Organisation and Innovation Research in Singapore, Associate Dean of the Unicorn Academy of Engineering, and Australia’s Chief Representative for the Global Unicorn Companies 500. He is a lecturer in Operations Management for Monash University’s online MBA program (2026 QS ranking: 36), a visiting professor at the University of Logistics and International Business in Indonesia, a guest professor at Seoul School of Integrated Sciences and Technologies in South Korea, and a reviewer for the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong SAR. Professor Shi is recognised among the world’s top 1% of researchers, ranking in the top 0.08% in logistics and the top 0.2% in supply chain management. His research focuses on operations management, logistics management and supply chain management. He has published more than 130 journal articles and three academic books. As of 2026, his Google Scholar profile records more than 5,264 citations, an h-index of 34 and an i10-index of 81. He is Editor-in-Chief for the Supply Chain Management area of Computers & Industrial Engineering (ABDC: A; ABS: 2), Associate Editor of Business Strategy and the Environment (ABDC: A; ABS: 3) and Operations and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, and serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Operations & Production Management (ABDC: A; ABS: 4; 2023–2025), Transportation Research Part E (ABDC: A*; ABS: 3), Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (ABDC: A; ABS: 3), International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (ABDC: A; ABS: 2), Australasian Journal of Management (ABDC: A; ABS: 2) and International Journal of Logistics Management (ABDC: A). He was Co-Chair of the 2025 IEOM International Conference, the 20th ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Conference in 2023, and the 2020 ICOSCM International Conference in Sydney. He also chaired sessions at the 2020 and 2021 INFORMS Annual Meetings. Professor Shi has been invited to deliver keynote addresses at numerous international and domestic conferences, including events organised by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing and the China Digital Services Conference.	Prof. Vinod Singhal🎓︎ The University of Georgia, America Speech Title:An Empirical Research Framework for Supply Chain Management Bio:Vinod Singhal is the Charles W. Brady Chair Professor of Operations Management at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India; MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, India; and Ph.D. from University of Rochester; Rochester, USA. Prior to joining Georgia Tech., he worked for three years as a Senior Research Scientist at General Motors Research Labs. Vinod's research has focused on the impact of operating decisions on accounting and stock market based performance measures. His research has been supported through grants from the US Department of Labor, National Science Foundation, the American Society of Quality, and the Sloan Foundation. He has published extensively in academic journals and has made more than 130 presentations at different universities. His research has been recognized in the practitioner community through his many articles in industry-practitioner journals and frequent invited presentations as keynote speaker at practitioner conferences. His work has been cited well over 200 times in practitioner publications such as Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, Smart Money, CFO Europe, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, and Daily Telegraph.Vinod is a Departmental Editor ofProduction and Operations Management, and Associate Editor ofJournal of Operations Management, Management Science,andManufacturing and Service Operations Management. He is on the Academic Advisory Board of the European School of Management and Technology, Germany. He has served on the Board of Examiners of the Georgia Oglethorpe Award, Bell South's President Quality Award, and the Baldrige Board of Examiners. Vinod's teaching interests include operations strategy and supply chain management. He has taught at the undergraduate, MBA, executive, and PhD programs and has won teaching awards at the MBA level. His contributions to curriculum development are diverse and deep including those made while serving as Associate Dean of MBA Programs and area coordinator of Operations Management. He has contributed to teaching at an international level, as well, by offering research workshops in countries including Australia, China, France, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, and United Kingdom.	Prof. Hua Song🎓︎ Renmin University of China, China Speech Title:Supply Chain Ecosystem Innovation in the Age of Digital Intelligence: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives Bio:Sun Shiliang is a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the director of the Artificial Intelligence Committee of the Shanghai Computer Society, as well as the director of the Machine Learning Committee of the Shanghai Image and Graphics Society. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Beihang University and a doctorate from Tsinghua University. He has conducted visiting research at overseas universities such as University College London and Columbia University. Currently, he serves as the head of the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (PRML Research Group) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His main research fields are machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is a member of well-known journals such as IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS, and the Chinese Journal of Automation. He has received important awards such as the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Chinese Association of Automation. To date, he has published over 200 academic papers and in 2020, he published the Chinese textbook "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" (published by Tsinghua University Press).
Prof.Ou Tang🎓︎ Linköping University,Sweden Speech Title:Outsource or In-House? A Manufacturer’s Strategic Choice of Logistics Servitization Bio:Ou Tang holds a full professorship in Production Economics since 2010 at Linköping University, Sweden, where he obtained a PhD in 2000. He served as associate editor and editor in the International Journal of Production Economics since 2008, he is the past-president of the International Society for Inventory Research, and current president of the European Decision Science Institute. Ou Tang’s principal research interest is in the field of operations and supply chain management, more specifically it includes inventory modelling, manufacturing planning and control systems, closed loop supply chain management, sustainable supply chains，supply chain risk management, and China related operations management issues. He has published more than 100 scientific articles in international journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Omega, International Journal of Production Economics, Production and Operations Management, and others. Ou Tang has extensive industrial experience with his research projects. As the principal investigator, he has audited and analyzed production and logistics systems, and proposed improvement suggestions in about 50 companies such as Volvo, Scania, Toyota, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Ericsson, Electrolux, IKEA，Sapa, SSAB, Stora Enso, Alfa lava, Atlas Copco, SKF, among others.	Prof. Hao Huang🎓︎ University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Speech Title:Digital Transformation and Industrial Integration in Manufacturing from the Perspective of Product Innovation Bio:Hao Huang is a Research Fellow and Professor, a doctoral supervisor, and Deputy Director of the Research Office for the Service Economy and Internet Development. He is a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and an Executive Council Member of the China Information Economics Society. He earned his PhD from the School of Economics and Management at Beihang University and was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include the digital economy, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence. He has led or participated in research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as commissioned studies for government agencies including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce. He has published more than 30 papers in journals and conference proceedings, including Economic Research Journal, China Soft Science, Economic Perspectives, Nankai Business Review, The Economist, Management Review, and Chinese Journal of Management Science, as well as international SCI- and EI-indexed publications. He has contributed to several research reports, including the Blue Book of the E-Commerce Service Industry, the Blue Book of Urban E-Commerce Competitiveness, and the China Business Blue Book. He has co-authored three textbooks on e-commerce and published two academic monographs. His honors include the Ministry of Commerce Award for Research on Business Development and the Third Prize for Theoretical Contribution from the China Information Economics Society. He has been invited to expert consultation meetings organized by the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress, the Ministry of Commerce, and the National Development and Reform Commission, among other government bodies. He has also been interviewed on numerous occasions by major media outlets, including CCTV News, CCTV International, and the online edition of Economic Daily. In Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Zhejiang, Chongqing, and other regions, he has delivered lectures to government officials on the industrial dynamics and related policies of the digital economy, e-commerce, and digital transformation.	Prof.Chunming (Victor) Shi🎓︎ Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Speech Title:Partial Ownership in Supply Chain Management: Research Progress and Future Directions Bio:Dr.Chunming (Victor)Shi holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management from Washington State University, a Master of Engineering from the National University of University, and doubleBachelor’s degrees in engineering and business administration from the University of Science and Technology of China.Heis currently atenured Full ProfessorandaPh.D. student supervisor in theLazaridisSchool of Business and Economics at the Wilfrid Laurier University.He has wonmultiple teaching awards from Washington State University and Wilfrid Laurier University. He servedtwiceas theChair of the Management Science Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. Dr. Shi’s main research and teaching interests have been in the areas of Management Science, Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. He has published more than 100 research papers (current H-Index of 34) published by journals such as Production and Operations Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Operational Research Society, International Journal of Management Science and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. His research has been supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Chartered Accountants of Canada. One of his research papers won the Best Paper Award from Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. He has supervised/hosted multiple postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. students, Master students, and visiting professors. He has also served as special issue editors of several top journals including International Journal of Production Economics.