Po-Long Yu is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Kansas School of Business and a Distinguished Professor for Life at National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan. He earned his bachelor’s degree in international trade from National Taiwan University in 1963 and his doctoral degree in operations research and industrial engineering from John Hopkins University in 1969.

Before joining the faculty at KU, he taught at the University of Rochester from 1969 to 1973 and at the University of Texas at Austin from 1973 to 1977. He also taught at NCTU from 1999 to 2011. While at KU, Yu was the Carl A. Scupin Distinguished Professor from 1977 to 2004.

Yu has published 23 books and more than 100 professional articles in English and Chinese over management science, operations research, multiple criteria decision-making, mathematical programming, differential games and optimal control theory, and various application problems including investment models, efficient market, marketing, automobile safety and energy policy, corporate acquisition and merger analysis. He has given keynote addresses around the world, academically and publicly with audiences for habitual domains and related topics sometimes numbering in the thousands.