Dr. Guiping Hu is the Professor and School Head of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Hu is a Fellow of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. She is also the Donald & Cathey Humphreys Endowed Chair. During 2021-2022, She served as the Head of the Department of Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology. She served as the associate chair of Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University where she was a faculty from 2009-2023. Her research focuses on operations research and data analytics with applications in supply chain design, healthcare analytics, renewable energy systems, and sustainable agriculture. Dr. Hu’s research has been supported by NSF, USDA, DOE, and DOD with over $11.5M funding. She has published over 100 journal articles and 50 conference proceedings with 4300+ citations.