CV

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022.04 - Present Associate Professor, Graduate School of Maritime Sciences & Center for Mathematical and Data Sciences, Kobe University

2021.09 - 2022.03 Associate Professor, Center for Mathematical and Data Sciences, Kobe University

2019.09 - 2021.08 Lecturer, Center for Mathematical and Data Sciences, Kobe University

2016.04 - 2019.08 Research Fellow, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University

1998.04 - 2019.00 A. P. Moller Maersk Group

EDUCATION

  • PhD. - Business Administration, 2016

Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan

Thesis research: Competitive Conditions in Container Liner Shipping Industry.

  • Master of Economics, 1999

Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China

“Research on the Regulation of Agricultural Product Distribution Market in China”

  • Bachelor of Economics, 1995

Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China

AWARDS

  • 2022. Outstanding Paper Award (Emerald Literati ). Blockchain technology in supply chain management: insights from machine learning algorithms. Emerald Publishing.

  • 2018. Commended Paper Award. Service Characteristics and Customer Satisfaction in Container Liner Shipping Industry. The 11th International Conference of Asian Shipping and Logisitics (ICASL 2018).

  • 2016. International Exchange Award. Container Liner Contestability in Alliance Era. Co-authored with Hideki Murakami. Japan Society of Logistics & Shipping Economics.


GRANTS

  • JSPS 17K03686 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 2017 - 2020 | Project name: Measuring Market Power in Container Liner Shipping Industry (Principle Investigator) |1,950,000 JPY

  • JSPS 21H01564 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 2021 - 2025 | Research on operational efficiency and environmental load reduction of ships and land transportation in smart ports (Coinvestigator) | 17,420,000 JPY

SOCIETIES

  • The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)

  • Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

  • International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME)

  • Japan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics (JSLSE)