Ming Hu

Bio

Ming Hu is University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Business Operations and Analytics. He is a Professor of Operations Management at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and one of the 2018 Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors. His research has been featured in media such as Financial Times. Most recently, he focuses on operations management in the context of sharing economy, social buying, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and two-sided markets, with the goal to exploit operational decisions to the benefit of the society. He is the recipient of Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award by POM Society (2016) and Best Operations Management Paper in Management Science Award by INFORMS (2017). He currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Naval Research Logistics, co-editor of a special issue of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management on sharing economy and innovative marketplaces, and associate editor of Management Science, Operations Research and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and senior editor of Production and Operations Management. He received a master's degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University in 2009.

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Academic Positions

2017-  Professor; University of Toronto

2008-2017  Assistant / Associate Professor; University of Toronto

Honors and Awards

2017  Annual Conference Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention; CSAMSE

2017  NET Institute Summer Grant

2017  Management Science Distinguished Service Award; INFORMS

2017  Best OM Paper in Management Science; INFORMS

2016  Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award; POMS

2015  Roger Martin Excellence in Research Award; Rotman School of Management

2015  Rotman School of Management Teaching Award; University of Toronto

2015  Annual Conference Best Paper Award, First Prize; CSAMSE

2014  Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition, Honorable Mention; INFORMS

2013, 2014, 2016  M&SOM Meritorious Service Award; INFORMS

2011, 2015, 2016  Management Science Meritorious Service Award; INFORMS

2011  Connaught New Researcher Award; University of Toronto

2009-2013  Excellence in Teaching Award; Rotman School of Management

2009  Connaught Start-Up Award; University of Toronto

2008-2010  Innovation Research Award; Hewlett-Packard Labs