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Leavey School of Business Santa Clara University
Department ofInformation Systems and Analytics

Cai, George (Gangshu)

George (Gangshu) Cai

Professor and Department Co-Chair, Information Systems and Analytics

Curriculum Vitae (CV)


Professor Cai is a full professor and Department Chair/Co-Chair of Department of Information Systems and Analytics in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. He is the former Faculty Director of Graduate Business Program and founder of undergraduate Minor in Business Analytics at Santa Clara University. He is the founder and director of the Institute of Supply Chain and Operations Management (ISCOM), an international academia association aiming to provide a best cooperation platform for academia and industry. Professor Cai is an Associate Editor of Decision Sciences Journal and a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management Journal. He has also provided consulting services to a few companies. He is the founder of ISCAI, a consulting business on supply chain and business analytics.

Professor Cai's research interests include supply chain finance, competitive channel and supply chain management, interface between operations management and marketing, and business analytics. He is the author of the book “Supply Chain Finance: Mechanisms, Risk Analytics, and Technology” (forthcoming). Professor Cai has been a leader for more than 50 research projects and published more than 50 refereed papers in leading academic journals and proceedings such as Production and Operations Management, Marketing Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science, and PNAS. He has chaired more than ten international conferences on Supply Chain and Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Supply Chain Finance and been a consultant for multiple companies.

Professor Cai has been ranked #4 Prominent Retailing Authors (final influence index) worldwide 2009-2015 by Emerald Publishing. Multiple of his publications have earned “Highly Cited Paper” in Web of Science (Hi Top 1% based on the number of citations in Economics & Business). Professor Cai has also received 2022 ISCOM Best Paper Award (second prize), 2020 MSOM iFORM SIG best paper award Top 3 Finalist of the past three years’ publications in MSOM, the Best Paper Award of Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Shanghai Outstanding Paper Award in Social Science, Kansas State University President’s Faculty Development Award, CBA Fellow, CBA Outstanding Contributions in Research Award, Santa Clara University Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Professor Cai is one of the first professors in the university history to have won both The University Award for Recent Achievement in Scholarship (2018) and The Brutocao Award for Curriculum Innovation (2019), two university-wide awards in Santa Clara University. Professor Cai is the recipient of a few service awards, including the Outstanding Associate Editor Award of Decision Sciences Journal and multiple Santa Clara University Dean's Award for Outstanding Service. He is also the winner of the Leavey Impact Award for Service, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

Professor Cai has won numerous teaching awards in both public and private universities, including Ralph Reitz Outstanding Teaching Award in Kansas State University, Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching in Santa Clara University, and the Leavey Impact Award for Teaching (the only person to have ever won two Leavey Impact Awards). Professor Cai is also the sole winner of the 2018 Wickham Skinner Award for Teaching Innovation of the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS).

March 2023

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