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Kai Pan is currently an Associate Professor in Operations Management at the Faculty of Business of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Director of the MSc Program in Operations Management (MScOM). He serves as a Secretary/Treasurer for the INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) and an Associate Editor for Omega. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Florida, USA, and his Bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University, China. Previously he worked as a Research Scientist at Amazon (Seattle, Washington) on Supply Chain Optimization and a Power System Engineer at GE Grid Solutions (Redmond, Washington) on Electricity Market Operations. His research interests include Stochastic and Discrete Optimization, Robust and Data-Driven Optimization, Dynamic Programming, and their applications in Energy Market, Smart City, Supply Chain, Shared Mobility, Marketing, and Transportation. His research on these topics has been published in Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Production and Operations Management, IISE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Transportation Research Part B, etc. All these journals are top-tier journals in various fields. Dr. Pan was the first-place winner of the prestigious IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2017.