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Li Chen

Li Chen

  • Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management
  • Area Chair for Operations, Technology, and Information Management
  • Department Editor, Production and Operations Management

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Faculty Area

Interdisciplinary Theme

Faculty Expertise

  • Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Business Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Systems
  • Services Operations Management

Contact

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

607.255.4851

lc785@cornell.edu

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Biography

Li Chen is the Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management and professor of operations, technology, and information management in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He currently serves as the Area Chair for Operations, Technology and Information Management at SC Johnson.

Chen's research interests include supply chain management, operations strategy, and data-driven analytics. He has published research works in top-tier journals in the operations management field such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management, where he also serves as a department editor. He is a coauthor of a freely available text analytics R package named STS. Prior to his academic appointments, Chen was a cofounder and lead scientist at TrueDemand Software. He earned his PhD in management science and engineering from Stanford University.

Selected Publications

Awards and Honors

  • Best Teaching Award (2023) Cornell-Tsinghua Finance MBA Program
  • Faculty Research Award (2022) Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
  • Best Teaching Award (2022) Cornell-Tsinghua Finance MBA Program

Recent Courses

  • NCCT 5080 - Managing Operations
  • NBA 6420 - Supply Chain Analytics

Academic Degrees

  • PhD Stanford University, 2005

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