Rate My Professor Haitao Li

Haitao Li is Professor and Chair of the Supply Chain and Analytics Department in the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where he also serves as Founding Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Supply Chain Analytics. He earned a Ph.D. in Production and Operations Management from the University of Mississippi in 2005, an M.A. in Economics from the same university in 2002, and a B.E. in International Trade and Aeronautical Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2000. Li's research focuses on optimization modeling, algorithm design, and applications in supply chains, encompassing supply chain network design, configuration, resource allocation, project scheduling, vehicle routing, predictive and prescriptive analytics, data mining, Bayesian nonparametric methods, metaheuristics, and stochastic modeling. His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Army Research Office, and organizations including HP Labs, Express Scripts, Ameren, and the Association of Supply Chain Management.

In his career, Li has worked as a visiting scholar at Hewlett-Packard Laboratory and statistical analyst at Naval Personnel Research, Study and Technology. He holds editorial roles as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Project Management. Notable awards include the Young Investigator Award from the U.S. Army Research Office in 2010, the Douglas Durand Award for Research Excellence from UMSL in 2015, and UMSL Inventor of the Year in 2015, recognizing two U.S. patent applications and invention disclosures, such as U.S. Patent 11,334,824 for Physical Resource Optimization System. Key publications feature 'Multi-Modal Vaccine Distribution Network Design with Drones' in Transportation Science (2023), 'Optimizing the Configuration of a Food Supply Chain' in International Journal of Production Research (2021), 'Solving Stochastic Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problems by Closed-loop Approximate Dynamic Programming' in European Journal of Operational Research (2015), and 'Optimizing the Supply Chain Configuration for Make-to-Order Manufacturing' in the same journal (2012). Li's scholarship garners over 2,100 citations with an h-index of 26 on Google Scholar, influencing supply chain management practices.