Our Team

Prof. Yan is currently the Chair Professor of Management Sciences and the Director of M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance with AI and Fintech Applications, City University of Hong Kong. He was Dean of Business at the City University of Hong Kong, Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and a cofounder of CUHK spin-off technology company. He was an Associate Director and Science Advisor for the Hong Kong R&D Center for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies. He has also worked as an Associate Professor at the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. Professor Yan is a celebrated researcher winning a number of awards and recognitions over the years. Professor Yan’s main research areas are stochastic models, machine learning and algorithms, risk modelling and analysis, and supply chain management. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Tsinghua University, both in electrical engineering, and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in business. He is a member of Hong Kong Academy of Finance.

Prof. Yao, Piyasombatkul Family Chair Professor of IEOR at Columbia University, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was an Associate Professor at Harvard. He holds eight U.S. patents in collaboration with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights. He has managed over 30 government and industrial grants.