Professor Janny Leung is the Master of Choi Kai Yau College and affiliated with the State Key Lab of Internet of Things for Smart City at the University of Macau. She obtained an S.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Radcliffe College, a B.A. in Mathematics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before returning to Hong Kong, she was a faculty member at Yale University and the University of Arizona. Her main research interests are combinatorial optimization, transportation logistics and operational research. In Hong Kong, she has collaborated with local companies on projects involving workforce scheduling, facility layout, and public transit planning. She has been invited as plenary speaker at major international conferences, and serves on the editorial boards of the leading journals in her field. In 2014, she was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and appointed to the Hong Kong Logistics Development Council (LOGSCOUNCIL). She was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Informs) in 2020. She will serve as President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) for 2022-2024. In her spare time, she enjoys rowing, hiking and travelling, having visited all seven continents.