Yu Qian is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). She received her PhD degree in Management Science and Engineering from UESTC in 2008. Her general research interests include information economics and e-commerce, business intelligence, supply chain and operations management. Her papers have been published and presented in journals and conferences such as Information Proceesing and Management(IPM), Decision Support Systems(DSS), Information & Management(I&M), Journal of Information Science(JIS), International Journal of Information Management(IJIM), Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal(FSM), Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering(JSSSE), Journal of Management Sciences in China(管理科学学报), Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice(系统工程理论与实践), as well as POMS, INFORMS, and ICIS annual conference.