Education
Ph.D. (Operation Management), University of Washington, St. Louis, Supervisor: Panos Kouvelis, 1998-2004
Ph.D. (Operations research), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Supervisor: Zheng Dazhao, 1995-1998
M.E. (Computer and System Engineering), Nankai University, Supervisor: Tu Feng Sheng, 1986-1989
B.E. (Computer and System Engineering), Nankai University, Supervisor: Tu Feng Sheng, 1982-1986
Courses Taught
Undergraduate: Operations Management
Work Experiences
July 2013 – Present: Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management and Systems Engineering School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
July 2004 – June 2013: Assistant Professor, School of Business, Singapore University of Management
July 1989 – June 1995: Lecturer, Department of Computer and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electricity (join Wuhan University in 1999)
Research Interests
Global supply chain and risk management; Supply chain and efficiency management; Application of auction theory in supply chain; Production scheduling management
Representative Research Projects
1. Inventory and Order Management Strategies under Multi-type Customer Demand(National Natural Science Foundation of China)
Representative Research Papers
1. Huang, Guoxuan, Qing Ding, Ciwei Dong, and Zhicong Pan. "Joint optimization of pricing and inventory control for dual-channel problem under stochastic demand." Annals of Operations Research 298 (2021): 307-337.
2. Kouvelis, Panos, Zhan Pang, and Qing Ding. "Integrated Commodity Inventory Management and Financial Hedging: A Dynamic Mean-Variance Analysis." Production and Operations Management 27, no. 6 (2018): 1052-1073.
3. Ding, Qing, Panos Kouvelis, and Joseph Milner. "Inventory Rationing for Multiple Class Demand under Continuous-Review." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 8 (2016): 1344-1362.
4. Ding, Qing, Ciwei Dong, and Zhicong Pan. "A Hierarchical Pricing Decision Process on a Dual-Channel Problem with One Manufacturer and One Retailer." International Journal of Production Economics 175 (2016): 197-212.
5. Kouvelis, Panos, Rong Li, and Qing Ding. "Managing Storable Commodity Risks: Role of Inventories and Financial Hedges." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 15, no. 3 (2013): 507-521.
6. Ng, C. T., Qing Ding, T. C. E. Cheng, and Franklin Lam. "Preemptive Scheduling Policy for Multiple Loan Repayment." Annals of Operations Research 192 (2012): 141-150.
7. Ding, Qing, Lingxiu Dong, and Panos Kouvelis. "On the Integration of Production and Financial Hedging Decisions in Global Markets." Operations Research 55, no. 3 (2007): 470-489.
8. Ding, Qing, Panos Kouvelis, and Joseph Milner. "Dynamic Pricing for Multiple Class Deterministic Demand Fulfillment." IIE Transactions 39, no. 11 (2007): 997-1013.
9. Ding, Qing, Panos Kouvelis, and Joseph Milner. "Dynamic Pricing through Discounts for Optimizing Multiple Class Demand Fulfillment." Operations Research 54, no. 1 (2006): 169-183.
10. Cheng, T. C. E., Qing Ding, and B. M. T. Lin. "A Concise Survey of Scheduling with Time-Dependent Processing Times." European Journal of Operational Research 152, no. 1 (2004): 1-13.
11. Cheng, Tce, Qing Ding, M.Y Kovalyov, A. Bachman, and A. Janiak. "Scheduling Jobs with Linearly Decreasing Processing Times." Naval Research Logistics 50, no. 6 (2003): 531-554.
12. Cheng, Tce, and Qing Ding. "Scheduling Start Time Dependent Tasks with Deadlines and Identical Initial Processing Times on a Single Machine." Computers and Operations Research 30, no. 1 (2003): 51-62.
13. Cheng, T. C. E., and Qing Ding. "Single Machine Scheduling with Step-Deteriorating Processing Times." European Journal of Operational Research 134, no. 3 (2001): 623-630.
14. Cheng, T. C. E., and Qing Ding. "Single Machine Scheduling with Deadlines and Increasing Rates of Processing Times." Acta Informatica 36, nos. 9/10 (2000): 673-692.
15. Cheng, T. C. E., and Qing Ding. "The Time Dependent Machine Makespan Problem Is Strongly NP-Complete." Computers and Operations Research 26, no. 8 (1999): 749-754.
16. Cheng, T. C. E., and Qing Ding. "The Complexity of Scheduling Starting Time Dependent Tasks with Release Times." Information Processing Letters 65, no. 2 (1998): 75-79.
17. Cheng, T. C. E., and Qing Ding. "The Complexity of Single Machine Scheduling with Two Distinct Deadlines and Identical Decreasing Rates of Processing Times." Computers and Mathematics with Applications 35, no. 12 (1998): 95-100.
Representative Monographs/Textbooks/Cases
1. "Efficient Response Systems with RFID Technology: Cases in China", by Hongwei WANG, Shuang CHEN, Yong XIE, and Qing DING, Innovative Quick Response Programs in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Cheng, T. C. Edwin; Choi, Tsan-Ming (Eds.), ISBN: 978-3-642-04312-3, Springer's Handbook Series, 2010
2. "Managing Storable Commodity Risks: Role of Inventories and Financial Hedges", by Rong LI, Panos KOUVELIS, and Qing DING, Handbook of Integrated Risk Management In Global Supply Chains, Panos Kouvelis … [et al.] (Eds.), ISBN 978-0-470-53512-7, 2012