Qiaohai (Joice) Hu received her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. Before joining the City University of Hong Kong, she served on the faculty at Purdue. She has published papers in elite academic journals such as Manufacturing, Services, and Operations Management; Production and Operations Management; and IIE Transaction. Dr. Hu has held visiting appointments with Olin School of Business at Washington University. She has taught courses at all levels, including Operations Management; Quality Management; Procurement and Strategic Sourcing; International Operations Management; Business Statistics; Quantitative and Decision-making Models; Spreadsheet Modeling; and Stochastic Models.

Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include supply chain finance as well as the interface between supply chain management, accounting, and marketing. She serves as a senior editor for Production and Operations Management and as an ad hoc reviewer for Management Science; Operations Research; Manufacturing, Services, and Operations Management; IIE Transactions; Navel Research Logistics; European Journal of Operations Research; and Operations Research Letters. Before returning to academia, she worked as a supply chain analyst at FedEx Supply Chain Services at Ohio and Eastcom, one of the earliest telecommunication equipment manufacturers in East China.

In her spare time, Dr. Hu enjoys classical music, reading, yoga, meditation such as qigong, hiking, and traveling. Recently, her reading interests focus on anything that explores and explains human nature.