Desheng Dash Wu - Biography#

Prof. Desheng Dash Wu is Distinguished Professor/Professor/Affiliate Professor at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences/Stockholm University/University of Toronto. He served as managing director of RiskLab at the University of Toronto from 2008-2014 and visiting professor at University of Chicago from summer 2010-2012. He studies mathematical modeling of management and economic systems under risks and uncertainty, especially for maximizing operational and financial goals using the methodologies of game theory and large-scale optimization. He published more than 160 papers in SCI-indexed refereed journals such as the Decision Sciences, Risk Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE TKDE, Production and Operations Management, IEEE TSMC, and 8 books from Springer publisher.

His overall research excellence has further been recognized by numerous awards and fellowships. He is Elected Member from several academies including European Academy of Sciences and Arts, European Academy of Sciences, Fields Institute (for research), Global Young Academy.

He is an internationally renowned and award-winning scholar and teacher focusing on the area of risk analysis, with a particular interest in operations and finance interface. He is the editor of Springer Book Series on “Computational Risk management” (with David Olson and John Birge). He has been an Associate Editor/Guest Editor for more than 15 journals including the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Risk Analysis, and Omega. He is the Chair of the IEEE Analytics and Risk Technical Committee, IEEE Social and Economic Security Technical Committee, and leads more than 20 international committees and meetings.