Ming Hu is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University in 2009. His research has been published in leading journals of operations management, including 14 papers in UT Dallas ranking’s 24 leading journals in business disciplines. His research has been featured in media internationally such as Financial Times (UK), Toronto Star (Canada) and Inc. Magazine (US). He has given more than 40 research seminars at prominent universities including Stanford and MIT. He has consulted for Siemens and Hewlett Packard, and holds 6 patents from his consulting works. He is the recipient of Innovation Research Award by Hewlett-Packard Labs (2008-2010); Honorable Mention, Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition by INFORMS (2014); First Prize, Annual Conference Best Paper Award by Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (2015); and Roger Martin Excellence in Research Award by Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (2015). Most recently, he focuses on operations management in the context of social buying, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and two-sided markets, with the goal to exploit operational decisions to the benefit of the society.