Prof. Dong-Ping Song is a Chair of Supply Chain Management at the Liverpool University Management School. He studied and worked at Nankai University, Zhejiang University, Newcastle University, Imperial College London, and Plymouth University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and acts as an Associate Editor for Transportation Research Part E and International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics. He has managed several research projects funded by EPSRC, ESRC, the Royal Society, the British Council, and the European Commission. His research interests include the applications of data analytics, mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence, and simulation-based tools to various supply chain, logistics, and transportation systems, particularly in the area of maritime transport. He has had papers published in journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Transportation Research Part B/E/D, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and European Journal of Operational Research.