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Qing LI
Associate Professor
Email:imqli@ust.hk

PhD  2001 University of British Columbia
Operations and Logistics


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Associate Professor of ISOM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), July, 2008-present
  • Assistant Professor of ISMT, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), 2001-June 2008


WORKING PAPERS

"Multimodularity and Structural Properties of Stochastic Dynamic Programs" (with Peiwen Yu) 


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

  Articles

  • "On the Quasiconcavity of Lost-Sales Inventory Models with Fixed Costs", Operations Research, Forthcoming. (with P. Yu)
  • "Optimal Policies for Inventory Systems with Separate Delivery-Request and Order-Quantity Decisions", Operations Research, 2009, 57 (3), 626-636. (with X. Wu and K. L. Cheung)
  • "Reactive capacity and inventory competition under demand substitution", IIE Transactions, 2008, 40, 707-717. (with A. Y. Ha)
  • "Periodic review inventory systems with random yield and demand: bounds and heuristics", IIE Transactions, 2008, 40, 434-444 (with H. Xu and S. Zheng)
  • "Risk, risk aversion and the optimal time to produce", IIE Transactions, 2007, 39, 145-158.
  • "Joint inventory replenishment and pricing control for systems with uncertain yield and demand", Operations Research, 2006, 54 (4) 696-705. (with S. Zheng)
  • "On the effect of demand randomness on a price/quantity setting firm", IIE Transactions, 2005,  37 1143-1153. (with D. Atkins)
  • "Coordinating replenishment and pricing in a firm", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2002, 4 241-257. (with D. Atkins)

Selected Presentations

  • Li, Q. and A. Ha, Accurate response, reactive capacity and inventory competition. IFORS (2005), Hawaii.
  • Li, Q. and H. Zhang, Selling a fixed amount of inventory: Why more inventories may be sold at a higher price? Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference (2002), Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 
  • Li, Q. and D. Atkins, Competition and coordination in a capacitated / price setting supply chain. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference (2000), Michigan Business School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 


SERVICE ACTIVITIES WITHIN COLLEGE AND PROFESSION

  • Reviewer for Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
  • Member of INFORMS and MSOM