Dr. Shijie Deng, Ph.D. joined McKinley Capital’s Scientific Advisory Board in 2020 and provides valuable pedigree and research experience to the Board and the firm. Dr. Deng is an Associate Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.. Dr. Deng’s research interests include financial asset pricing and real options valuation, financial engineering applications in energy markets, electricity transmission pricing and auction design, risk management and contract theory in supply chains, stochastic modeling and simulation. He has consulted with several private and public companies on issues of pricing, risk management, and asset valuation in the deregulated electricity industry. He received a B.S. in applied mathematics from Peking University in P.R. China, an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California.