Wenting Li (李文挺)
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate
Welcome to my website! I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business.
My research focuses on the design and analysis of data-driven empirical and analytical studies that inform decision-making and advance theory under conditions of supply chain uncertainty, with the goal of shaping resilient and fair supply chains.
Before academia, I gained five years of professional experience in commodity exchange and supply chain fintech entrepreneurship.
My work has appeared in Harvard Business Review and Supply Chain Management Review, and was recognized with the Winner, E. Grosvenor Plowman Award at CSCMP’s Academic Research Symposium, and the Finalist at M&SOM data-driven challenge. I also actively collaborate with industry partners in fintech and pharmaceuticals, bridging theory and practice across my projects in supply chain financing, AI, and sustainability.
Education:
Arizona State University (expected 2026)
Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management
Ph.D. Committee: Dr. Thomas Choi, Dr. Dale Rogers, and Dr. Yimin Wang
University College London | Peking University
MBA
Sichuan University
B.Eng. in E.I.E. | B.S. in Econ
2. Best Paper Winner of the E. Grosvenor Plowman Award at CSCMP, ARS best paper, Nashville 2024
3. Nominee for the CSCMP Bowersox Doctoral Symposium, Orlando 2023
4. Research Grant: $2,000, Arnold Ventures Causal Inference Workshop, Denver 2025
(support research that helps to improve public safety and social justice)
5. Research Grant: $9,000, PI, ESG-Driven Resilience: Navigating Firm Stability Through Disruptions, New Governance Lab at ASU, Tempe 2024
6. Research Grant: $2,000, Supply Chain Resilience Issues, Problems and Solutions for the Homeland Security Enterprise Workshop, D.C. 2024
SCRIPS hosted by CAOE (Center for Accelerating Operational Excellence, ASU & TAMU).
7. Research Grant: $18,750 / $75,000, member, Local Semiconductor Supply Chain Mapping Project, from ASU Knowledge Enterprise, Tempe 2022
8. University Graduate Fellowship at ASU $9250, Tempe 2021
1. Session Chair, POMS 2025 Annual Conference
• Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability
2. Session Co-Chair, INFORMS 2024 Annual Conference
• Supply Chain Finance and Fintech (with Dr. Rafael Escamilla)
• Strategies in ESG and Contractual Decisions
3. Session Co-Chair, INFORMS 2023 Annual Conference
• Fairness and Equity: Interpretation and Intervention (with Dr. Violet Chen)
• Emerging Topics in Supply Chain Empirical Research (with Dr. Zenan Zhou)
4. Ad-hoc Reviewer
• Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) conference, Phoenix 2024
• Academic Research Symposium (ARS) of the CSCMP conference, Nashville 2024