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Qinyun Li

Dr Qinyun Li

Senior Lecturer

Cardiff Business School

Email
LiQY@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 75485
Campuses
Aberconway Building, Room D16, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Qin is a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Dynamics at the Cardiff Business School of Cardiff University, where he earned his PhD. His main research interests focus on production planning, inventory management, supply chain contracts, supply network design, and forecasting.

He has experience in delivering teaching, workshops and training to undergraduates, postgraduates and executive audiences. He has received the recognition from Chinese government for outstanding non-government sponsored students abroad in 2014.

Before his academic career, he worked in multinationals for six years, involving production, logistics, customer relationships, procurement, and management information systems.

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Research

Primary research interests

  • Production control, inventory management, and forecasting in supply chain
  • Close loop supply chain design
  • Social media in operations and supply chain
  • Supply chain finance
  • Food supply chain

Teaching

 

At Cardiff University, Qin is responsible for the core course 'Operations Management' at the postgraduate level. He also partly teaches 'Excellence in Managing Operations' (undergraduate) and 'Research Skills and Methods' (postgraduate). In addition, Qin is supervising MSc dissertations, Live Business Projects, and MBA business projects. Previously, he has taught 'Logistics Modelling', 'Lean Operation' and 'Operations Analysis' at various levels.

Biography

Qualifications

PhD entitled "A System Dynamics Perspective of Forecasting in Supply Chains"

Postgraudate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning

Fellow of The Higher Education Academy

Supervisions

 

I welcome applicants with an interest in one of the following areas. Strong background in operational research, management science, control engineering, coding and computational skills are desirable.

  • Inventory management
  • Production system design
  • Supply network design
  • Forecasting
  • Food supply chain
  • Social media in operations and supply chain
  • Design science

Current PhD students:

  • Diego Bermudez Bermejo
  • Yanying Jing
  • Junwei Yu

Current supervision

Yanying Jing

Yanying Jing

Research student

Junwei Yu

Junwei Yu

Research student

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Production and operations management
  • Supply chain and Logistics Modelling
  • Modelling and simulation
Early career wins

Early career wins

22 December 2017

Early career wins

Early career wins

22 December 2017