Rate My Professor Ming Hu

Ming Hu is the University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Business Operations and Analytics and a Professor of Operations Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He serves as the Area Coordinator for the Operations Management and Statistics Area. Hu earned his BS from Nanjing University, MS in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2003, MS from Columbia University, and PhD in Operations Research from Columbia University in 2009. He joined the University of Toronto in 2008 as an Assistant Professor, progressed to Associate Professor, became a full Professor in 2017, and was appointed University of Toronto Distinguished Professor in 2019. Since 2022, he has been an Amazon Scholar at Amazon SPS-FBA Science, and since 2018, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of Naval Research Logistics.

Hu's research specializes in operations management, particularly in the sharing economy, social buying, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and two-sided markets. His influential publications include 'Product and Pricing Decisions in Crowdfunding' with X. Li and M. Shi (Marketing Science, 2015), 'Operations Management in the Age of the Sharing Economy: What Is Old and What Is New?' with S. Benjaafar (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020), 'Dynamic Pricing of Perishable Assets under Competition' with G. Gallego (Management Science, 2014), 'Dynamic Type Matching' with Y. Zhou (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022), 'Food Delivery Service and Restaurant: Friend or Foe?' with M. Chen and J. Wang (Management Science, 2022), 'Liking and Following and the Newsvendor: Operations and Marketing Policies Under Social Influence' with J. Milner and J. Wu (Management Science, 2016), and 'Simultaneous vs. Sequential Group-Buying Mechanisms' with M. Shi and J. Wu (Management Science, 2013). He has received the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award from the Production and Operations Management Society in 2016, the Best Operations Management Paper in Management Science Award from INFORMS in 2017, and was named one of Poets & Quants' Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors in 2018. His research has been featured in the Financial Times.