• Deputy Director of Doctoral College
• Professor of Operations Management and Decision Making 
• Research Cluster Lead - Product and Service Value Chains
• Author for book "Knowledge Management: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Business Decisions", available on Amazon (printed and kindle versions). The book is published in both English and Chinese.
• Editor-in-Chief: International Journal of Decision Support System Technology
• Follow me on twitter @ShaofengUK, LinkedIn, ResearchGate
• Research grants:
  

  • 2024-2027, UKRI project “Resilience in Agri-food Systems: Supply Chain Configuration Analytics Lab” (RASCAL)”, funded by BBSRC, £1.73M, coordinated by Cambridge University, partners include Plymouth University, QUB and NIAB.

  • 2022-2026, UKRI project "Nurturing future Black, Asian and minority ethnic female professors (Generation Delta)", funded by Research England and Office of Students, £797,264, coordinated by University of Leeds, partners including Plymouth, Goldsmiths, Reading, Sheffield and Sunderland Universities. Project website: generationdelta.leeds.ac.uk
  • 2022-2024, UK Royal Society funded project “Water for sustainability: from precision measurement of soil water content to data-driven decision support”. Funded under International Exchanges 2021 Cost Share (NSFC) scheme.
  • 2021-2022, UK government funded project “Devon Agri-Tech Alliance (DATA)”, under Community Renewal Fund, project value, £503,318, coordinated by Devon County Council, partners including Plymouth University, Duchy College and West Devon Business Information Point.
  • 2016-2022, Horizon 2020 project "Enhancing and implementing knowledge based ICT solutions within high risk and uncertain conditions for agriculture production systems (RUC-APS)", funded by European Commission under Marie Curie RISE scheme, €1.3M (WP leader).
  • 2017-2021, Horizon 2020 project Blood Biomarker-based Diagnostic Tools for Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease (BBDiag)", funded by European Commission under Marie Curie ETN scheme, €3.5M (Co-ordinaor: Professor Genhua Pan from University of Plymouth).
  • 2018-2022, EUHorizon 2020 project “An Integrated Platform for Developing Brain CANcerDiagnostic Techniques (AiPBAND)”, funded by European Commission under Marie Curie ETN scheme, €3.7M (Co-ordinator: Dr Xingzhong Li from University of Plymouth). 
  • 2019-2021, UK British Council funded project "Developing capacity and research network on circular economy and Industry 4.0 driven sustainable solutions for reducing food waste in supply chains in Turkey", funded by Newton Fund, £32,000 (Co-ordinator: Dr Sachin Kumar). 
  • 2017-2019, EU Erasmus Plus project “Innovating youth work to foster youth active citizenship, entrepreneurship and employability (YOU-ACE)”, €197,925 (Plymouth PI: Dr Jonathan Moizer). 
  • 2015-2018, Horizon 2020 project "Innovative Quality of Experience Management in Emerging Multimedia Services (QoE-Net)", funded by European Commission under Marie Curie ETN scheme, €3.1M for the project (€547K to Plymouth, with Dr Lingfen Sun as WP leader and Professor Emmanuel Ifeachor).
  • 2015-2017, Post-doc Knowledge Transfer Partnership project Researching, evaluating and embedding sustainable technologies into Construction industry", funded by Innovate UK/EPSRC and Wates Construction, £146,000 (with Professor Steve Goodhew as Academic Lead). Link to project release on the KTP Associate, Dr Zainab Dangana
  • 2014-2016, EU Erasmus Plus KA2 project Developing online tools to foster entrepreneurship in retail sector for young people (LET IT BE PROJECT)", funded by European Commission, €120,832. Full details on the project website
  • 2013-2014, " Exploring innovative approaches to experiential teaching and learning in Management Decision Making education", funded by UK Higher Education Academy (HEA).
  • 2013, Invited Professor, fully funded by French National Research Institute IRIT at the University of Toulouse, with Professor Pascale Zarate.

• Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS) (Chair of Management Board, follow us on Twitter @EWGDSS)
• UK Digital Supply Chain Hub - Academic Network (Steering Committee)

• Using social network analytics to enhance business intelligence and decision making in food supply chain chains. Guoste Pivoraite (funded DTA).
• Adoption of blockchain technology for sustainable food security: drivers, barriers and potential solutions for agri-food supply chain in Nigeria . Ruth Goma
• Peer learning to support the creation of closed-loop social value networks in food sharing communities. Xinyi Li (Generation Delta Champion)
• The Impact of effective use of Big Data Analytics on drilling operation’s performance in the upstream of the Oil and Gas value chain. Mohammad Jrakhi.
• Innovative business model addressing the full value circle for technology development in brain cancer diagnosis and healthcare. Aira Ong (Marie Curie Fellow).
• The Impact of sociocultural factors on consumers’ attitudes towards social media advertising and purchase intention within the luxury clothing industry. Lamis Aldawish. (Co-supervisor)
• Analyzing The Dimensions of Relationship Marketing to Enhance Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA) in Ghanaian Cocoa Industry, Richard Asante (Co-supervisor)

• European Commission (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes): since 2015
• UK ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council): Peer Reviewer College Member
• UK EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
• British Academy
• UK Royal Academy of Engineering
• Universities UK International (UKIERI)

• International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics (IJSAMI)
• International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences
• Senior Editor for Cogent Business and Management (2013-2018)
• Associate Editor for International Journal of Decision Support Systems Technology (2015 - 2021)
• Associate Editor for Journal of Decision Systems (2012-2016)

• 2023 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2023), 30 May - 1 June 2023, Albi, France (programme chair)
• 2021 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2021), 26-28 May 2021, Loughborough, UK (conference general chair)
• 2019 3rd International Conference on E-commerce, E-Business and E-Government (ICEEG 2019), 18-21 June, 2019, Lyon, France (conference chair). 
• 2018 International Conference on Economics, Society and Management (ICESM 2018), 5-7 July 2018, Beijing, China (conference chair).
• 2018 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2018), 22-25 May 2018, Crete, Greece.
• The 19th Open Conference of the IFIP WG 8.3 on Decision Support Systems (IFIP DSS 2018), 13-15 June 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia (PC member)
• 8th International Conference on E-business, Management and Economics (ICEME 2017), 27-29 October 2017, Birmingham, UK (conference chair)
• 2017 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2017), 29-31 May 2017, Namur, Belgium (co-chair)
• 2016 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2016), 23-25 May 2016, Plymouth, UK (conference local chair). 
• The 5th International Conference on Society, Humanity and History (ICSHH 2015), 3-4 July 2015, Bangkok, Thailand. (conference chair) 
• International Conference on Decision Support Systems Technology (ICDSST 2015), Belgrade, 27-31 May 2015. (conference co-chair)
• Joint International Conference of the INFORMS GDN Section and the EURO Working Group on DSS (GDN 2014), Toulouse, 10-13 June 2014. (session chair)
• The 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2014), Barcelona, 13-18 July 2014. (stream chair)
• The 4th International Conference on Strategic Management and Research (ICSMR 2014)(conference chair) 
• The 4th International Conference on Financial Management and Economics (ICFME 2014)(conference chair) 
• The 3rd International Conference on Society, Humanity and History (ICSHH 2014)(conference chair) 
• The 26th EURO-INFORMS Joint International Conference - Decision Support Systems Stream (EURO 2013) (stream chair)
• Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems 2013 Annual Conference (EWG-DSS 2013) (co-chair)
• The 29th IEEE ICDE conference - workshop on Data-Driven Decision and Guidance Support Systems (DGSS 2013) (PC member) 
•  The 16th International Conference on Decision support Systems (DSS 2012) (PC member) 
•  International Conference on Low-Carbon Transportation, Logistics and Green Buildings (LTLGB 2012) (PC member) 
•  The 25th EURO Conference - European Association of Operational Research (Euro 2012) (stream chair) 
•  Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems 2012 Annual Conference (co-chair) 
•  28th International Conference on Data Engineering - Workshop on Data-Driven Decision Guidance and Support Systems (ICDE DGSS 2012) (PC member) 
•  The 5th International Conference on Management and Service Science (MASS 2011) (session chair) 
•  International Conference on Remanufacturing 2011 (ICoR 2011) (session chair) 
•  The 15th International Conference on Decision Support Systems (DSS 2010) (PC member) 
•  International Conference on Advances in Product Development and Reliability (PDR 2008) (PC member) 
•  International Conference on Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT 2007) (PC member) 
• International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology (ICIT 2006) (PC member)

At undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and DBA levels: 

• Knowledge management and decision making
• Management Decision Making 
• Operations Management
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management
• Business in Context
• Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems 
• Applying Theory to Practice (for DBA degree)
• Research Methods for Business Students

Award from UK HEA:
Higher Education Academy (HEA) seminar series, workshop on "Exploring innovative approaches to experiential teaching and learning in Management Decision Making education".