Professor Tsan-Ming CHOI (Jason) is an operational researcher and systems engineer. He is now Chair in Operations and Supply Chain Management, and Director of the Centre for Supply Chain Research at University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS). He has published extensively in leading journals in the fields of operations management, engineering management, and logistics and supply chain management. His recent research has been funded by many external funding bodies. Over the past decade, he has served the academic community as an editor/senior editor of journals such as IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on SMC-Systems, and Production and Operations Management. He is also the advisory editor (past EIC) of Transportation Research Part E. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate (Web of Science) since 2022. He is currently editing the Encyclopedia in Operations Management (by Elsevier), which is a multi-volume major reference book in operations management.
Andrew W. H. Ip (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering from Cranfield University, Cranfield, U.K., in 1983, the M.B.A. degree in engineering business management from Brunel University, Uxbridge, U.K., in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in manufacturing engineering from Loughborough University, Loughborough, U.K., in 1993. He is currently a Professor Emeritus with the University of Saskatchewan (UoS), Saskatoon, SK, Canada. He has more than 30 years of experience in research, education, industry, and consulting. He is also an Adjunct Professor of mechanical engineering with UoS; Visiting Professor and Distinguished Professors of various universities in mainland China; an Honorary Fellow at WMG of the University of Warwick, U.K.; and Senior Research Fellow with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. He is Adjunct Professor, UNESCO Chair lectures at the National University of La Plata. He has more than 10000 Google Scholar citations with an H-index of 55. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Enterprise Information Systems and a Founding Editor for the International Journal of Engineering Business Management.