Dr. Chuan Shi is a Professor of Practice in Financial Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. His work lies at the intersection of operations research, manufacturing systems, quantitative finance, and applied data science. He studies networked industrial and financial systems, with a focus on how materials, information, capital, and carbon propagate through complex supply chains and markets.

Dr. Shi received his Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in operations research, and his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Tsinghua University. His early research developed stochastic models and optimization methods for manufacturing systems with unreliable machines and finite buffers. Building on more than a decade of quantitative investment experience, including co-founding Beijing Liangxin Investment Management Co. Ltd., he has expanded his research to empirical asset pricing, factor investing, financial information diffusion, ESG analytics, and machine learning applications in large-scale financial and industrial data.

He serves on the editorial board of Computers in Industry and has published in journals including European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Operations Research Letters, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of Economic Surveys, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. He is also the co-author of several books on factor investing and active fund investing. Through his teaching, research, and industry engagement, Dr. Shi aims to bridge rigorous analytical methods and real-world decision-making in industrial and financial systems.