Lei Lei received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) with a minor in Computer Science. Her research expertise includes supply chain network design and optimization, operations planning, scheduling, process recovery after disruptions, demand-supply planning, and resource allocation optimization. Lei has over 50 refereed publications – many appeared in leading journals such as Management Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Interfaces, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Operational Research Society, and Naval Research Logistics, etc. She was listed by ROI-NJ among the Top 50 NJ Women in Business Influencers (2021) and as a NJ Difference Maker (2020), and by NJBIZ as a Top 50 Women in Business (2015). Lei became the Dean of Rutgers Business School (Newark and New Brunswick) in January 2015.