Professor Lai received his PhD at Michigan State University, USA. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong. Prior to his post, he was the Chair Professor of Management Science at the City University of Hong Kong. Before his academic appointment, he was a Senior Operational Research Analyst for Cathay Pacific Airways and an Area Manager on Marketing Information Systems for Union Carbide Eastern. Professor Lai’s main areas of research interests are operations and supply chain management, financial and business risk analysis and modeling using computational intelligence. He has extensively published in international refereed journals on the above areas. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Logistics and SCM Systems and International Journal of Operations Research. He is the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Operational Research Society of Hong Kong and currently the President of the Asia Association on Risk and Crises Management.

In 2009, Professor Lai was the recipient of the Joon S. Moon Distinguished International Alumni Award of the Michigan State University and also appointed as the Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education, China. In 2013, he has been selected as Fellow of the Asia Pacific Association of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems. In 2014, he was the recipient of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award, Michigan State University, USA. In 2017, Professor Lai is elected as the Academician of the International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences.

1.       J Lu, G Feng, K K Lai & N Wang, “The Bullwhip Effect on Inventory: A Perspective on Information Quality”, Applied Economics, Vol. 49, Issue 24, 2017, p2322-2338

2.           T Zhang, G Li, T C E Cheng & K K Lai, “Welfare Economics of Review Information: Implications for the Online Selling Platform Owner”, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 184, Feb 2017, p69-79

3.           J Bian, K K Lai & Z Hua, “Service Outsourcing under Different Supply Chain Power Structures”, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 248, Issue 1, Jan 2017, p123-142

4.           L Zhou & K K Lai, “AdaBoost Models for Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction with Missing Data”,  Computational Economics, Vol. 50, 2017, p69-94

5.           K Liu, K K Lai, J Yen & Q Zhu, “ A Model of Stock Manipulation Ramping Tricks”,  Computational Economics, Vol. 45, Issue 1, Jan 2015, p135-150

1.           Co-Chairman of the 5^th International Conference on Networking and Distributed Computing, Hangzhou, China, Dec 2015

2.           Co-Chairman of the 16^th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference, Vietnam, Dec 2015

3.           Co-Chairman of the International Conference on Healthcare and Management, Taiwan, June 2015

4.           Co-Chairman of the 3^rd Annual Conference on Transport, Trade and Service Studies, Hong Kong, Nov 2014

5.           Co-Chairman of the 7^th International Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization, Beijing, China, July 2014