Jing-Sheng Jeannette Song ( zh, 宋京生) is a

management scientist Management science (or managerial science) is a wide and interdisciplinary study of solving complex problems and making strategic decisions as it pertains to institutions, corporations, governments and other types of organizational entities. It is ...

specializing in

operations management Operations management is concerned with designing and controlling the production (economics), production of good (economics), goods and service (economics), services, ensuring that businesses are efficiency, efficient in using resources to meet ...

and

supply chain management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) deals with a system of procurement (purchasing raw materials/components), operations management, logistics and marketing channels, through which raw materials can be developed into finished produc ...

. She is the R. David Thomas Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Operations Management in the

Fuqua School of Business The Duke University Fuqua School of Business (pronounced ) is the business school of Duke University, a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina. It enrolls more than 1,300 students in degree-seeking programs. Du ...

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Education and career

Song earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU) () is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the B ...

in 1982, and a master's degree in

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

in 1984. After continuing to work at the Institute of Applied Mathematics until 1986, she went to

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

for doctoral study, and completed her Ph.D. in management science at

Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a Private university, private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and one of ...

in 1991. She joined the Graduate School of Management at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, U ...

in 1991. She took a leave from UC Irvine from 1996 to 1998 to become an assistant professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University, but returned to Irvine with tenure. In 2003 she moved to Duke University as the R. David Thomas Professor. In 2018 Duke University named her as a distinguished professor. Song was president of the

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often s ...

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (INFORMS MSOM) for 2009–2010.

Recognition

Song was elected to the 2017 class of

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s of the

(INFORMS) and separately, in the same year, as a fellow of the INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society. The Chinese Ministry of Education named Song as a Chang Jiang Chaired Professor in 2009. In 2015 she was a winner of the Chinese Thousand Talents Program.

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