Dr Pan Kai is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies at the Faculty of Business of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Florida, USA, and his Bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University, China. Previously he worked as a Research Scientist at Amazon (Seattle, Washington) on Supply Chain Optimization and a Power System Engineer at GE Grid Solutions (Redmond, Washington) on Electricity Market Operations. His research interests include Stochastic and Discrete Optimisation, Robust and Data-Driven Optimisation, Dynamic Programming, and their applications in Energy Market, Smart City, Supply Chain, Shared Mobility, and Marketing. His research on these topics has been published in Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Production and Operations Management, IISE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Transportation Research Part B, etc. Dr Pan was the first-place winner of the prestigious IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2017. His works have been supported by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.