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 double Bachelor degrees in Engineering and Business Administration from the University of Science and Technology of China. He is currently a tenured Full Professor and a Ph.D. student supervisor in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at the Wilfrid Laurier University. He has won multiple teaching awards from Washington State University and Wilfrid Laurier University. He twice served as the Chair 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, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Data Analytics. He has published more than 70 research papers 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.