Jing-Sheng Jeannette Song ( zh, 宋京生) is a

management scientist Management science (or managerial science) is a wide and interdisciplinary study of solving complex problems and making strategic decisions as it pertains to institutions, corporations, governments and other types of organizational entities. It is ...

specializing in operations management and

supply chain management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...

. She is the R. David Thomas Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Operations Management in the

Fuqua School of Business The Fuqua School of Business (pronounced ) is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It enrolls more than 1,300 students in degree-seeking programs. Duke Executive Education also offers non-degree business education and ...

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

Education and career

Song earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU, ), colloquially known as Beishida (), is a public research university located in Beijing, China, with a strong emphasis on humanities and sciences. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China ...

in 1982, and a master's degree in

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from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

in 1984. After continuing to work at the Institute of Applied Mathematics until 1986, she went to

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

for doctoral study, and completed her Ph.D. in management science at

Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a Private university, private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and is one ...

in 1991. She joined the Graduate School of Management at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...

in 1991. She took a leave from UC Irvine from 1996 to 1998 to become an assistant professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University, but returned to Irvine with tenure. In 2003 she moved to Duke University as the R. David Thomas Professor. In 2018 Duke University named her as a distinguished professor. Song was president of the

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger of ...

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (INFORMS MSOM) for 2009–2010.

Recognition

Song was elected to the 2017 class of

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s of the

(INFORMS) and separately, in the same year, as a fellow of the INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society. The Chinese Ministry of Education named Song as a Chang Jiang Chaired Professor in 2009. In 2015 she was a winner of the Chinese Thousand Talents Program.

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