Dr. Zhang is the China lead of Food Safety research. His research focuses on the core technology in advanced analytics, optimization and blockchain and their applications in key areas, especially in food safety, supply chain and logistics industry innovations. He has coinvented more than 5 U.S. patents and coauthored more than 10 research articles in leading international conferences and academic journals. He is a member of the editor board of Journal of Business & Management and serves as referees for many prestigious research journals. As a technical leader, he has also been responsible for the delivery of many innovation projects in close collaboration with IBM’s business partners and has won numerous IBM outstanding technical achievement awards.
     Dr. Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and received his Ph.D. Dual Degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is a member of the engineering honor society - Tau Beta Pi.