藕继红在中国科学院数学研究所取得硕士学位后，留美在麻省理工学院获得运营研究学博士学位。目前为长江商学院运营管理学副教授，此前是新加坡国立大学商学院副教授，也曾是剑桥大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校安德森管理学院和伊利诺依大学访问学者。藕继红教授的课程包括统计学与决策分析，管理科学，运营管理，供应链管理，随机运营研究模型等。

藕继红的理论研究专注于排队理论及随机运营研究模型。他也在生产与库存系统，工业工程，企业流程化管理，供应链管理等应用研究领域颇有建树。

• "Service Performance Analysis and Improvement for a Ticket Queue with Balking Customers", with L. Gao and S. Xu, Management Science, 53, 971-990, 2007.
• "Joint Management of Finished Goods Inventory and Demand Process for a Make to-Stock Product: A Computational Approach”, with L. Chen and Y. Feng, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51, 58-273, 2006.
• "Optimal Positioning of Idle Elevators Under Myopic and State-dependent Policies”, with M. Parlar and S. Moosa, European Journal of Operational Research, 170, 863-886, 2006
• "Management of Inventory Replenishment and Available Offerings for Goods Sold with Optional Value-Added Packages”, with F. Chen and Y. Feng, IIE Transactions, 37, 397-406, 2005
• "Stability of Data Networks: Stationary and Bursty Model", with H. Ye and X. Yuan, Operations Research, 53, 107-125, 2005.
• "The Benefits of Advanced Booking Discount Programs: Model and Analysis", with C. S. Tang, K. Rajaram, and A. Alptekinoglu, Management Science 50, 465-478, 2004.
• "Inventory Cost Effect of Consolidating Several One-Warehouse Multi-Retailer Systems", with W.S. Lim and C. P. Teo, Operations Research, 51, 668-672, 2003.
• "The Delay of Open Markovian Queuing Networks: Uniform Functional Bounds, Heavy Traffic Pole Multiplicities, and Stability", with C. Humes and P.R. Kumar, Mathematics of Operations Research, 50, 921-954, 1997.
• "The Throughput of Irreducible Closed Markovian Queuing Networks: Functional Bounds, Asymptotic Loss, Efficiency, and the Harrison-Wein Conjectures", with H. Jin and P.R.Kumar, Mathematics of Operations Research, 22, 886-920, 1997.
• "Sequential Screening In Semiconductor Manufacturing, II: Exploiting Lot-to-Lot Variability",with L. M. Wein, Operations Research , 44, 196-204, 1996.
• "Dynamic Scheduling of a Production/Inventory System With By-Products and Random Yields", with L. M. Wein, Management Science, 41, 1000-1017, 1995.
• "The Impact of Processing Time Knowledge on Dynamic Job-Shop Scheduling", with L. M. Wein, Management Science, 37, 1002-1014, 1991.