Mingwei Guo, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Economics, Shandong University. His research areas span international trade and global supply chains, transportation systems, energy economics, the crowdsourced economy, and last-mile delivery. He has an interdisciplinary background that integrates engineering, economics, and international trade.

Dr. Guo earned his Ph.D. in Transportation and Supply Chain from North Dakota State University (NDSU), where he conducted cross-disciplinary research across civil engineering, transportation, and business. He served as a research fellow in NDSU’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, contributing to projects under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Center for Multi-Modal Mobility, including multimodal transportation system modeling, mobility safety in tribal regions, and simulation-based evaluations of transportation systems under extreme weather conditions. He also worked as a research assistant at the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, participating in multiple federal and state-funded projects involving travel demand modeling, minor structures analysis, wildfire evacuation driving behavior, and transportation structure database development. During his time in the College of Business, he engaged in a study on 401-K pension risk management and machine-learning-based disposition strategies.

In teaching, Dr. Guo served as an adjunct lecturer in the NDSU College of Business, teaching Marketing Research and Retail Management. He later served as an Assistant Professor at Valley City State University, where he taught courses in management, finance, and marketing in online, hybrid, and face-to-face formats.

In innovation and technology transfer, Dr. Guo twice served as the Entrepreneurial Lead in the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program, leading market validation and commercialization pathway development for the project “Expanding Solar Infrastructure under Extreme Climate,” which was selected into the national cohort.

In academic service, he is a reviewer for multiple international journals, including Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cities, and the Asian Journal of Management Science and Applications. He has also served for three consecutive years as a Session Chair at the INFORMS Annual Meeting (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), responsible for organizing session agendas, coordinating presentations, and facilitating scholarly discussions.

His current research interests include:

• Digital transformation, resilience, and risk governance in international supply chains

• Global supply chain networks, global value chain (GVC) restructuring, and cross-border logistics systems

• Crowdsourced economy and last-mile delivery (LMD) applications and incentive models

• Transportation behavior and scenario modeling under extreme climate conditions