Wu, Jing(吳靖)

B.Engr (Tsinghua); MBA, PhD (Chicago Booth)

Associate Professor
Director, Master of Science Programme in Business Analytics
Director, Institute Development Office, Asian Institute of Supply Chains and Logistics

Contact

Department of Decisions, Operations and Technology

Room 920, 9/F
Cheng Yu Tung Building
12 Chak Cheung Street
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

+852 3943 5299

jingwu@cuhk.edu.hk

Biography

Professor Jing Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decisions, Operations and Technology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He is the Director for Master of Science Programme in Business Analytics, and the Director of the Asian Institute of Supply Chains & Logistics (AISCL)’s Institute Development Office. He receives his Ph.D. (major in operations management, minor in economics & finance) and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University.

Professor Wu’s primary research fields are global supply chain management, operations-finance interface, sustainable operations, and FinTech, using empirical methodologies including panel econometrics, machine learning, textual analysis such as LLM. As a recipient of multiple best paper awards in OM and IS fields, his papers are published in leading journals such as Management Science, M&SOM, POMS, and JIBS. His articles appear in business magazines such as MIT Sloan Management Review, the Economist, and Forbes. In particular, his quantitative research findings on the supply chain impact of COVID-19 and the Trade War have been reported by over 400 media outlets in over 20 countries worldwide.

Professor Wu is an Associate Editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and a Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management. He also serves on the Editorial Review Board for Journal of Operations Management. He has served multiple times as a committee/track/cluster chair for leading international academic conferences such as INFORMS and POMS meetings. He is the founding chairman for the Workshop on Empirical Operations Management (WEOM), an research platform serving empirical OM researchers in APAC and beyond. Before academia, he worked as a quantitative strategist at Deutsche Bank in New York.

Teaching Areas

Global Operations and Supply Chain Strategies
Business Intelligence and Large Language Models
FinTech and Quantitative Investment

Research Interests

Global Supply Chains
Operations-Finance Interface
Sustainable operations
FinTech Applications

  • Grants
    • GRF Fund “Corporate Equality and Diversity: The Roles of Sell-Side Analysts and Buy-Side Institutions,” HK$730,000, Co-Investigator, 2022-2023
    • GRF Fund “Globalization 2.0: Supply-Chain Restructuring after Sino-US Trade War and Covid-19 Pandemic,” HK$688,293, Principal Investigator, 2021-2022
    • GRF Fund “Supply-Chain Coordination of Human Capital Investment”, HK$502,490, Co-Investigator, 2020-2021
    • GRF Fund “Labor Skills on Firm Performance: A Study from Unstructured Online Job Postings,” HK$406,000, Principal Investigator, 2020-2021
    • Start-up Fund awarded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019-2022
    • Start-up Fund awarded by City University of Hong Kong, 2016-2019
    • Sidney Davidson Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Chicago Booth, 2015-2016
    • John and Serena Liew Fellowship awarded by Chicago Booth, 2014-2015
    • Fama-Miller Center Grant for Research in Finance awarded by Chicago Booth, 2014-2015
    • Chicago Booth Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Chicago Booth, 2011-2015
  • Awards & Honours
    • Young Researcher Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2022
    • Best Paper Award, China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), 2022
    • M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2021
    • Best Paper Award, The 13th International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), 2021
    • M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2020
    • Best Paper Award, The 12nd International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), 2019
    • The Farsight Award, Long Finance’s London Accord, 2016
    • Fama-Miller Center Grant for Research in Finance, 2015
    • Sidney Davidson Doctoral Fellowship, Chicago Booth, 2015
    • John and Serena Liew Fellowship, Chicago Booth, 2014
    • Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate (Top 1%), 2011
    • First-Class Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Tsinghua University, 2009-2011
    • UGVR Scholarship, Stanford University, 2009
  • Academic/Professional Services
    • Associate Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM)
    • Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management
    • Editorial Review Board, Journal of Operations Management
    • Reviewer for Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Information Systems Research and The Review of Financial Studies.