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Douglas Hales is an Associate Dean and Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Rhode Island. His primary teaching expertise is Global Supply Chain Management and Lean Six Sigma. His research interests include Global Port Competitiveness and Applied Process Improvement. 

Hales has more than 20 years of operational and supply chain management experience for the U. S. Marine Corps as well as the plastics and construction industries. He can speak to the impact of U. S. imposed tariffs on Chinese goods and U. S. goods in many industries. He can discuss the delay between the tariffs and the arrival of goods being shipped to the U.S. and what consumers can expect, in terms of the timing of price hikes on goods purchased by Americans. He can discuss the 鈥渃old chain,鈥� agricultural goods, electronics and commodities in general that ship by container vessel.

Hales is a special issue co-editor for the Transportation Journal on Seaport Competition for 2018 and 2019, as well as the past Program Chair of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute. He is also the incoming President of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute, beginning July 1, 2019.

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Tinglong Dai is Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, with joint faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science. He is on the core faculty and leadership team of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative. He joined Carey in 2013 after receiving a PhD in Operations Management/Robotics from Carnegie Mellon. His research interests span healthcare, marketing-operations interfaces, and human-AI interaction.

Professor Dai has been quoted hundreds of times in the media, including Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNN, Fortune, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and has appeared in national and international TV such as CNBC, PBS 麻豆传媒Hour, and Sky 麻豆传媒. In 2021, he was named as one of the World's Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors by Poets & Quants.

Professor Dai's work has been published in leading journals such as Management Science, M&SOM, Marketing Science, and Operations Research, and has been recognized by Johns Hopkins Discovery Award, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, POMS Best Healthcare Paper Award, and Wickham Skinner Early Career Award (Runner-Up). He is an Associate Editor of M&SOM and Naval Research Logistics and a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. He co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations and co-edits the Handbook of Healthcare Analytics: Theoretical Minimum for Conducting 21st Century Research on Healthcare Operations, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2018.

Martin Dresner has served on the faculty of the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland since 1988, where he is Professor and Chair of the Logistics, Business and Public Policy Department. He received his Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on two broad areas, air transport policy and logistics management. Professionally, he is Chair of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) and a past president of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the Allied Social Sciences Association and of the Transportation Research Forum (TRF). Dresner is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Logistics. He has testified before the U.S. House Aviation Subcommittee and has worked on consulting projects for several organizations, including the Maryland Aviation Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Dr. Miller is an economist who specializes in industrial organization. In terms of supply chain issues, His research interests include understanding the way market competition, consumer preferences, and government policies combine to determine the prices and supplies of goods and services around the country.

He is also an expert in the economics of health care. He has recently completed a longitudinal study of Medicare Advantage plans and beneficiaries funded in part by the National Institutes of Health to understand how plan benefits vary around the country.

Finally, he can comment on the economics of the cannabis industry. He has conducted a number of studies examining the impact of cannabis legalization on traffic safety, alcohol consumption, tax revenues, cross-border shopping, the illegal market, and more. Dr. Miller's work has been cited by state and federal policymakers as they adapt to the changing landscape of the cannabis industry.

Dr. Sunghun Lim's research centers on the intersection between International Trade, Agricultural Development, Production, and Supply Chains. His primary research focus is studying how agricultural global value chains and international trade affect national economic outcomes, such as structural transformation, employment, food security, and international trade. His other research interest is understanding the ways in which farmers' risk attitudes toward uncertainty affect strategic agribusiness management, in the context of food security, contract farming, crop diversification, and supply chains. 

 Prior to Texas Tech University, Dr. Lim worked as an adjunct faculty at St. Catherine University in St Paul, Augsburg University in Minneapolis, and Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He also researched at the University of Minnesota Extension's Applied Research and Evaluation Team. His primary job was leading large scale statewide impact studies in the topics, including the USDA-Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), healthy food choice experiments, farmers' markets, and local supply chains. In addition, he researched at the National Food Protection and Defense Institute (FPDI)'s Global Food Supply Chain Team, and the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. Dr. Lim earned his Ph.D. in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, and B.A. in Economics both at the University of California-Davis (UC-Davis).

Dr. Scott Keller received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas and has been on the logistics faculty at Pennsylvania State University and Michigan State University.

Dr. Keller has been instrumental in helping to design and launch UWF鈥檚 standalone BSBA in Supply Chain Logistics Management and the MBA Supply Chain Strategy emphasis. His student logistics teams consistently place among the top universities in national competitions.

Dr. Keller鈥檚 research interests include managerial leadership, personnel performance and the development of a customer-oriented culture within logistics operations. Along with his brother, he co-authored the book, The Definitive Guide to Warehousing. He has been ranked among the top percentage of all time published researchers in the leading logistics journals.

He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Logistics, and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Logistics Management.

His managerial experience is in motor carrier operations, large scale public and contract warehousing in Memphis, and ocean freight marine terminal operations in Long Beach, California.

Dr. Prager is co-director of the . His research is focused on the policy and economics of disasters and has used computable general equilibrium analysis to estimate the macroeconomic impacts of environmental policy, natural disasters, and terrorism events. Prior to joining CSUDH, Prager was a postdoctoral research associate at USC Price School of Public Policy and Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), working with numerous Department of Homeland Security agencies on different policy analyses.

Shaya Sheikh obtained his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 2013. He worked as a scheduling and optimization scientist at Lancaster Laboratories and as a visiting professor at the University of Baltimore before joining New York Institute of Technology in 2015.
Currently, he serves as an associate professor of business and supply chain analytics in the School of Management. His research interests include the energy supply chain, scheduling, and the application of state-of-the-art, data-driven models for a variety of business challenges.
Sheikh has authored more than 40 research papers in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings such as Decision Support Systems, Energy, International Journal of Production Research, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Operations Research Perspective, Journal of Wireless Networks, and IEEE international conferences. In addition, he serves as an editorial board member for several journals covering management and business analytics.
He is also the session chair for top international conferences such as INFORMS and POMS, and a co-chair, organizer, and committee member for several others. A prominent figure at international conferences in his field, Sheikh is regularly invited to speak, provide keynote remarks, and/or participate as a reviewer/panelist to grant and award-funding agencies. He also serves as an invited and ad-hoc reviewer for more than 15 top journals in the energy and business analytics fields.

Areas of expertise:

Global Supply Chain Management
International Logistics
Business-to-Business Marketing

Tokman teaches undergraduate-level marketing and international logistics courses and graduate-level international logistics in JMU’s MBA program.  
Tokman’s research focuses on the intersection between marketing and supply chain management, including exploring how logistics performance of suppliers affects consumers’ brand perceptions at the retail level. His work has been published in internationally esteemed journals such as Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Logistics Management and International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. 
Tokman holds a doctorate in marketing and supply chain management from the University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Business. He is the Kenneth R. Bartee endowed professor in the marketing department at JMU.