Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen is the Chief Scientist for supply chain management at JD.com Silicon Valley R&D Center. He is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He is also an honorary professor at Tsinghua University and a Center Director at the Tsinghua-Berkeley Institute at Shenzhen. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has been active in the following research areas: integrated supply chain design and management, design and analysis of optimization algorithms, energy systems, and transportation system planning and optimization. Dr. Shen has published more than 100 papers in top supply chain management and operations research journals, and is currently on the editorial/advisory board for several leading journals, including Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management. Dr. Shen received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2003.