Duan Li was born in Shanghai, China. He graduated from Fudan University and received the M.E. degree in automatic control from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University. From 1987 to 1994, he was a faculty member at Department of Systems Engineering, the University of Virginia, where he also served as Associate Director of Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems. He joined the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in December 1994, where he is currently Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Managment and where he served as Department Chairman from 2003 to 2012. Duan Li's research interests include optimization, optimal control, financial engineering and operations research. Duan Li was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and has been an editorial board member or a guest editor for many other journals, including Journal of Global Optimization and IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering. He organized several international conferences as a co-chair, including the recent 8th International Conference on Optimization Techniques and Applications (ICOTA8). He is currently Vice President of Chinese National Society of Mathematical Programming, Vice President of Chinese Society of Financial Systems Engineering, and Academic Committee Member, Chinese National Research Center of Mathematics and Cross-Disciplinary Science, Department of Finance and Economics.
