BSc, MSc (Nanjing) | PhD (Ballarat) | Huifu Xu is a Professor of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining CUHK, he was a professor of Operational Research in the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton and the Director of the Centre of Operational Research, Management Science and Information Technology (2016-2018), one of the largest research centres in the areas of OR, MS and IT. Huifu Xu obtained BSc in computational mathematicsand MSc in numerical optimization from Nanjing University in 1980s and PhD from University of Ballarat (Federation UniversityAustralia) in 1999. He was a lecturer of Ningbo University from1989 to 1996 and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Australian Graduate of Management from 1999 to 2002. From 2002, he moved to work in the UK as a lecturer, senior lecturer and professor of operational research in the University of Southampton and City University London (2013-2015)