Supply chain management

Dr. Li holds his PhD in operations management and MA in economics from the University of Mississippi, and BE in foreign trade in industry with a minor in aeronautical engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China. Dr. Li’s teaching philosophy emphasizes cultivating students’ problem solving skills by bridging the gap between classroom instruction and real world practice. His favorite courses include supply chain management, advanced operations management and supply chain modeling at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Li has years’ of research experience in optimization modeling and algorithm design, and has been actively working with industry in the application domains of supply chain optimization, project scheduling and resource allocation. He was a recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) in 2010, and the Douglas Durand Award for Research Excellence of UMSL in 2015. With two U.S. Patent applications and a number of invention disclosures, he was named 2015 UMSL Inventor of The Year. He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society, Transportation Journal, and Editorial Board of the International Journal of Project Management.

Dr. Bracy teaches courses in supply chain strategy and quantitative methods for business. Her teaching philosophy is to blend and adapt teaching styles to match the learning environment, subject matter, and students’ interests and capabilities with the best pedagogical techniques. Dr. Bracy’s research interests include using applied data analytics for highway safety policy recommendations and evaluating the impacts of programs and policies on student performance and success in higher education. She is actively involved with industry, and currently serves as president for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals - St. Louis Roundtable and for the Transportation Research Forum – St. Louis Chapter.

Dr. Campbell received his PhD from the University of California – Berkeley in industrial engineering & operations research. He teaches courses in supply chain and operations management, logistics, location modeling and business analytics. The operations and supply chain courses address the essential activities at the heart of every organization: to produce goods and services, and deliver them to the end customer. All of Dr. Campbell’s courses combine data-driven decision making for practical problems in production/operations, transportation, and logistics. Dr. Campbell’s research centers around modeling and optimization of transportation, logistics and supply chain systems, and he has worked with public and private sector organizations in Canada, Australia and the U.S. His recent research interests include drone delivery, hub location and transportation network design, logistics for snow removal, school bus routing and barge transportation on the Upper Mississippi River. He has numerous publications in leading academic journals, and is Associate Editor of Transportation Research – Part B and Transportation Science.

Dr. Hupman earned her PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015 before joining the faculty at UMSL as an assistant professor of business analytics. She teaches courses in statistics, business analytics and predictive analytics and data mining. She strives to promote critical thinking by encouraging students to think through the logic underpinning fundamental concepts and practices in quantitative analysis, and to promote the development of skills such as the use of Microsoft Excel that will benefit students in their future careers. Her teaching has garnered recognition; she was the 2017 recipient of the Gitner Excellence in Teaching Award from UMSL. Her research interests include uncertainty quantification, predictive analytics, and decision analysis. Her work has appeared in leading journals, including the European Journal of Operational Research and IEEE Systems Journal. She reviews for numerous journals and serves on the Editorial Board of Decision Analysis.  

Prof. Karig brings more than twenty years of business experience with global manufacturing, distribution and logistics companies to her supply chain classes at UMSL. Prior to joining UMSL she served as Director of Export Business Development and Support for Incentive Group A/S, a Danish-owned cleaning equipment manufacturer. She has held management roles all along the global supply chain including in International Freight Forwarding, Export Operations, Global Market Intelligence, Global Customer Support and International Credit and Collections. Along with working in North America, Prof. Karig has worked in Europe and in South America and with colleagues and team members in Asia.  Prof. Karig received her MBA from Thunderbird, School of Global Management and her MA from Boston College and BA from the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh, both in International Studies. She is passionate about global trade and the global supply chain and brings this enthusiasm to her Introduction to Supply Chain Management and her Global Supply Chain Management classes at UMSL.