Hangfei is a Reader in Supply Chain Management at Queen's Business School, Queen's University Belfast. Hangfei gained her Ph.D. in Business (Management Science) from McMaster University (Canada) and MPhil in Business from Lingnan University (Hong Kong).

Hangfei is the Principal Investigator for the ReImagining the Supply Chains Network Plus (RiSC+). This is a £6.25m funding award from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), as part of its Building a Secure and Resilient World strategic theme, to model and reimagine supply chains across the UK in food, critical minerals and fashion. The RiSC+ project will offer evidence that exposes vulnerabilities, remedies current risks and demonstrates future potential, ultimately helping to empower the UK to move towards more resilient and secure supply chains. 

Hangfei's main research areas are operational research, operations management and supply chain management. Her current work aims to bridge the gap between mathematical tractability and practical applicability by using analytical models and optimization techniques on one hand and empirical studies employing data-driven and prescriptive methods on the other hand.

Hangfei has completed a knowledge transfer project that develops an innovative method to manage and optimize supply chains. The method combines simulation, big data analytics and machine learning tools and techniques to develop a digital representation of the supply chain that can be used to support data-driven decision-making in supply chain management. This AKT2I project with SDG has been selected by Innovate UK to be a featured case study on the official KTP website: Supply chain transformation using big data https://www.ktp-uk.org/casestudy/supply-chain-transformation-using-big-data/. 

Hangfei is passionate about research and teaching on operations and supply chain management. In particular, Hangfei is interested in the following areas. 

• Supply Chain Simulation
• Supply Chain Risk Management 
• Contract Design in Supply Chain Management

Hangfei has designed and delivered the module MGT7193 Operations Management since 2020. Hangfei has also taught the operation management and supply chain modules at the MSc and MBA levels.