IMMS 2025 Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dr. Habil. Dmitry Ivanov
Director of the Digital-AI Supply Chain Lab
Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
Biography: Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Dmitry Ivanov is Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management, and director of the Digital-AI Supply Chain Lab at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. His research spans supply chain resilience and digital supply chain twins. He has made influential contributions, particularly exploring structural dynamics of supply chains. Author of the Viable Supply Chain Model and founder of the ripple effect and viability research in supply chains. Recipient of several research excellence awards. His research record counts around 470 publications, with more than 170 papers in prestigious academic journals and the leading books “Global Supply Chain and Operations Management” (three editions), “Introduction to Supply Chain Resilience”, “Introduction to Supply Chain Analytics”, „Structural Dynamics and Resilience in Supply Chain Risk Management“, “Scheduling in Industry 4.0 and Cloud Manufacturing”, “Digital Supply Chain” and „Handbook of Ripple Effects in the Supply Chain“. He delivered invited plenary, keynote, panel and guest talks at the conferences of INFORMS, IFPR, IFIP, IFAC, IEEE, DSI and POM, and over 40 universities worldwide. He has been Chairman, IPC Chair, and Advisory Board member for over 80 international conferences in supply chain and operations management, industrial engineering, control and information sciences. Principal investigator in several projects about digital supply chain twins and resilience funded by EU Horizon and DFG. Several Awards for Best Papers (IJPR, IISE Transactions, Omega), Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Awards. Ranked #1 worldwide in Supply Chain by ScholarGPS and #1 in Operations Research by Standford/Elsevier ranking. Ranked #1 in German-Austrian-Switzerland Ranking of Top Scientists in Business and Management area. Chair of IFAC CC 5 “Cyber-Physical Manufacturing Systems”, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, Editor Annals of Operations Research, Associate Editor of International Journal of Production Research and OMEGA, guest editor and Editorial Board member in over 20 leading international journals including IISE Transactions and IJPE, to name a few.
Prof. Reynold Cheng
University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong China
Biography: Prof. Reynold Cheng is the Division Head and Professor (Computer Science), at the School of Computing and Data Science, in the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is also a Steering Committee Member of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science. He is an academic advisor to the College of Professional and Continuing Education of HKPU. He was an Associate Dean of Engineering in 2022-24. His research interests are in data science, big graph analytics and uncertain data management.
Professor Cheng is named the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Database in 2023 and 2024. He received the ACM Distinguished Membership Award and the HKU Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award in 2023. He was listed as the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2022. He received the SIGMOD Research Highlights Reward 2020, HKICT Awards (2021, 2023), and HKU Knowledge Exchange Award (Engineering) (2024, 2021). He was granted an Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2011-12 by HKU. He received the Universitas 21 Fellowship in 2011, and two Performance Awards from HKPU Computing in 2006 and 2007. He was a PC co-chair of IEEE ICDE 2021. He is on the editorial board of IS, DAPD and DSEJ.
Prof. Kecheng Liu
University of Reading, United Kingdom
Biography: Prof. Kecheng Liu, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, is a Professor of Applied Informatics at the University of Reading and the Director of the Digital Talent Academy at Henley Business School. In his roles as academic lead, senior advisor, and consultant, he has significantly contributed to academic research, industrial projects and business consulting in areas such as business and IT strategy, information management, and digital leadership across public and private sectors. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers and 25 books on topics including organisational semiotics, business informatics, and intelligent spaces for work and living. Additionally, he has successfully supervised more than 60 PhD students from diverse international backgrounds. His extensive experience in management and leadership spans research projects, academic centres, schools, and universities.
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Prof. Xin Luo
The University of New Mexico, USA
Biography: Dr. Xin (Robert) Luo is a Distinguished Professor of Management Information Systems and an Endowed Dean's Professor of Research Excellence at the Robert O. Anderson School of Management of The University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He also serves as the Special Assistant to the Dean for Research Advancement at the Anderson School of Management. He is ranked No.1 worldwide for publication in the AIS Senior Scholars List of Premier Journals, including ISR, MISQ, JMIS, JAIS, EJIS, ISJ, JIT, JSIS, DSS, I&M, and I&O, for 2022-2024. Additionally, he has been listed in the Top 2% Global Scientists list published by Stanford University and Elsevier. His Google Scholar profile, including citations & h-index and i-10 index, is at https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=FemyycMAAAAJ
His research interests center around behavioral information systems security management, consumer privacy protection, E-commerce/M-commerce, social commerce, innovative technologies (e.g., blockchain, machine vs. human interactions, cloud computing, green IS, e-healthcare, social network, etc.) for business strategic decision-making and development, and cross-cultural IT management. Before joining academia, he had worked as business associate, web project manager, assistant director, and senior web developer in China and USA.