Erick Li

Associate Professor Erick Li is affiliated with the University of Sydney Business School since 2009. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from The Pennsylvania State University, Master of Commerce in Accounting from The University of New South Wales, and Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science & Industrial Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

• PhD (Business Administration), Pennsylvania State University
• MCom (Accounting), University of New South Wales
• BE (Materials Science & Industrial Engineering), Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Dr. Li's research focuses on Operations Management and Supply Chain Management, particularly:

• Procurement contract design with moral hazard and adverse selection
• Robust optimization in supply chain contexts
• Inventory management under technological obsolescence
• Retail assortment planning with product substitution
• Game theory applications in operational decision-making
• Pharmaceutical procurement optimization with rebate contracts

His recent work with the University of Sydney Informatics Hub and Westmead Hospital created software for pharmaceutical procurement optimization under rebate contracts.

Scientific recognition includes:

• Identified as Asia's top Operations Management scholar by Babbar et al. (2017) in International Journal of Production Economics
• Ranked among Asia's top 25 Supply Chain Management scholars by Babbar et al. (2018)

Grants include:

• National Science Foundation of China: Behavioral studies of inventory and supply chain decisions with reference points
• National Science Foundation of China: Evolutionary game models for supply chain competition with network externality