Rongbing received his PhD in operations management from Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He is an active member of the Institution for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS), and Canadian Operational Research Society (CROS). For the past seven years, he has been a visiting professor to Spain and China, and has published multiple journals on various platforms including INFOR, Computers and Industrial Engineering etc. The area of research that Rongbing specializes in is operations management, facility location, supply chain management, and combinatorial auction.