On May 26, 2024, at the invitation of the School of Management, Professor Huang Min from Northeastern University conducted academic exchanges with teachers and students of the school and delivered an academic report entitled Collaborative Operation Management of Platform Logistics Supply Chain—Design of a True Double Auction Mechanism. The report was hosted by Professor Che Ada, Dean of the School of Management, and attended by Professor Liu Sifeng, some young faculty members and graduate students of the school.

At the beginning of the report session, Dean Che Ada introduced Professor Huang Min’s research directions, scientific achievements and academic contributions, and the participating teachers and students extended a warm welcome to Professor Huang Min. In this report, based on his team’s research practice, Professor Huang conducted an in-depth analysis of the core significance of operation optimization for manufacturing systems, supply chain systems and industrial chain systems in the Industry 4.0 era. He also pointed out prospectively that with the advent of the Industry 5.0 era, "collaboration" will become a key issue that cannot be ignored. Subsequently, taking logistics supply chain as the starting point, Professor Huang discussed in detail the development trends of logistics supply chain in the intelligent era, especially the new operation mode of platform logistics supply chain—the sharing mode, and constructed a comprehensive collaborative operation management framework for platform logistics supply chain. Under this framework, Professor Huang presented to the participating teachers and students his team’s research achievements in platform logistics supply chain network design, multi-level path collaborative planning, and logistics supply chain resource matching mechanism considering stability.

At the end of the session, Dean Che Ada made a concise summary of this academic exchange activity, emphasized the importance of combining machine learning technology with operations research and optimization methods, and expressed high expectations for the graduate students of the School of Management.

Speaker ProfileHuang Min, PhD, is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Northeastern University. He is a member of the Ministry of Education’s Major Talent Project, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Chief Scientist of National Key R&D Program projects, a New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, an expert enjoying Special Government Allowance of the State Council, an Excellent Expert of Liaoning Province, a Leading Talent in Technological Innovation of Liaoning Province’s "Xingliao Talents Program", a Level-A Talent of the Liaoning Provincial Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project, and an Excellent Science and Technology Worker of Liaoning Province. He is a core member of the State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, and a Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Currently, he serves as Director of the Department of Artificial Intelligence of Northeastern University, Director of the Liaoning Key Laboratory of Intelligent Science and Intelligent Systems, Director of the Ministry of Education’s "Internet Plus" Logistics and Supply Chain Management Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Cultivation Base (111 Cultivation Base), and Director of the International Research Center for Intelligent Analysis and Decision-Making in Future Manufacturing and Services of Northeastern University. He also holds positions including Chairman of the Behavioral Operations Research and Management Branch of the Operations Research Society of China, Standing Director of the Chinese Society of Management Science and Engineering, Associate Editor of the international journal Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR), and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Management Sciences in China. He has presided over more than 40 national and provincial-level projects, including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Key International Cooperation Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and National Key R&D Program projects. He has published more than 200 SCI papers, authored 5 books and translated 1 book, and won 8 awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level including the Second-Class National Science and Technology Progress Award. His main research interests include logistics and supply chain management, intelligent manufacturing, unmanned warehousing, modeling and optimization, data analytics and machine learning, computational intelligence, and digital twins.

Written by/Tang Xinyu Reviewed by/Jia Ming