Qingkai Ji is a professor at International Business School of Hainan University. He was a visiting scholar at University Of California Riverside in 2012-2013. His research centers on supply chain and operations management in the context of new technologies such as blockchain, IoT, AI, and so on. He has published in premier academic journals such as Omega, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, Managerial and Decision Economics, and Ocean and Coastal Management. He has received three program grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Ji obtained his Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Dalian University of Technology.