He is a mechanical engineer who received his PhD at Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/EAESP), São Paulo in 2015 and master degree at the same institution in 2011. He had worked for 10 years as engineer, project coordinator and manager for companies specialized in railway transportation. For his dissertation, Yen-Tsang had investigated, cross-nationally, the influence of buyer-supplier relationship in the supplier selection process. During the PhD journey, he had also spent several months at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai as visiting researcher for data collecting and research exchanging. Apart from the dissertation, his research interests are in the area of behavioral operations, operations strategy, and agile supply chain and firm performance.