Rong Li

Rong Li is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. Professor Li specializes in supply chain risk management, integrated risk management, and inventory management with learning from real-time information.

Dr. Li’s research in supply chain risk management involves theoretical and data-driven modeling, aiming to help managers better face different types of risk with available risk management tools.

She has coedited the first handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains. Her research works have been published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, etc. One of her papers was among the top 20 most cited articles of all time (IIE Transactions, as of June 2015); another paper was a finalist for the best paper award in the supply chain and logistics track of ISERC.

Dr. Li received a B.S. in Mathematics from Nankai University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.