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Yao Zhao, PhD

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Research Projects (Key Words):

· Socially Responsible Operations: Designing Energy Supply Chains for Sustainable Economic Growth (Developing Economies, Energy Security, Sustainability, Hydro, Coal)

· Project Driven Supply Chains: Integrating Project and Supply Chain Management (Aerospace and Defense, Construction; Partnerships and Gaming in Projects)

· Clinical Trial Supply Management (Pharmaceutical and Bio-tech; Optimization)

· Stroke Prediction and Prevention (Medical Decision Making, Differential Dynamical Systems, Columbia Medical Center)

· Inventory Management for Agricultural Products (The Coffee Crisis, Risk Hedging for Commodities)

· Branded Drugs Distribution Contracts and Pricing

· Assemble-to-Order Systems, Allocation Rules and Component Commonality

· Risk Averse Inventory Management

· Inventory Positioning in Multi-Stage and Multi-Product Supply Chains

· IPA Gradient Estimators for Production-Inventory Systems

· Stochastic Inventory Systems with Minimum Order Quantity

· The Impact of Information Sharing on Supply Chain Performance

Selected Refereed Journal Publications:

• Rafique, R., K.G. Mun, Y. Zhao. 2017. Designing Energy Supply Chains: Dynamic Models for Energy Security and Economic Prosperity. Production and Operations Management 26:1120-1141.
• Khan, A.J., R. Rafique, W. Zafar, C. Shah, B.G. Haffty, A. Jamshed, Y. Zhao. 2017. Nation-Scale Adoption of Shorter Breast Radiotherapy Schedules Can Increase Survival By Improving Access in Resource Constrained Economies: Results from a Markov Chain Analysis. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 97:287-295.
• Johnson, A., X. Xu, Y. Zhao. 2016. Transportation Planning and Scheduling for the 2014 Special Olympics Games. Interfaces 46:218-230.
• Zhao, Y., N. Liu, Y. Wang, K. T. Hickey. 2015. A Rolling-horizon Pharmaco-Kinetic Pharmaco-Dynamic Model for Warfarin Inpatients in Transient Clinical States. Personalized Medicine 13:21-32.
• Fleischhacker, A., A. Ninh, Y. Zhao. 2014. Inventory Positioning in Clinical Trial Supply Chains. Production and Operations Management 24:991-1011.
• Shi, J., Y. Zhao. 2014. Component Commonality under No-Holdback Allocation Rules. Operations Research Letters 42:409-413.
• Shi, J., Yue, X., Y. Zhao. 2014. Operations Sequencing for a Multi-stage Production Inventory System. Naval Research Logistics 61: 144-154.
• Fleischhacker, A., Y. Zhao. 2013. Balancing Learning and Economies of Scale for Adaptive Clinical Trials. Operations Research for Health Care 2: 42-51.
• Choi, S., A., Ruszczynski, Y. Zhao. 2011. A Multi-Product Risk Averse Newsvendor with Law-invariant Coherent Measures of Risk. Operations Research 59: 346-364
• Shi, J., Y. Zhao. 2010. Technical Note: Some Structural Results of Acyclic Supply chains. Naval Research Logistics 57: 605-613
• Lu, Y., J.S. Song, Y. Zhao. 2010. Non-holdback Allocation Rules in Assemble-to-Order Systems.Operations Research 58: 691-705
• Zhang, X. L., Y. Zhao. 2010. The Impact of External Demand Information on Interacting Supply Chains. Production and Operations Management 19:463-479
• Xu, X., Y. Zhao. 2010. Price-only Contract and Backup Supply. Operations Research Letters 38: 201-206
• Song, J.S., Y. Zhao. 2008. The Value of Component Commonality in A Dynamic Inventory System with Lead Time. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 11: 493-508
• Zhao, Y. 2008. Evaluation and Optimization of Installation Base-Stock Policies in Supply Chains with Compound Poisson Demand. Operations Research 56: 437-452
• Zhao, Y. and  B. Melamed 2007. IPA Gradients for Make-to-Stock Production-Inventory Systems with Lost Sales. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 52: 1491-1495
• Boros, A., L., Lei, Y. Zhao, H. Zhong. 2007. Scheduling Container Vessels with Conflicting Objectives. Annals of Operations Research 161: 149-170
• Zhao, Y., D. Simchi-Levi. 2006. Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Assemble-to-Order Systems with Stochastic Sequential Lead-times. Operations Research 54: 706-724 (Data for the examples of the single-product assembly systems. The Example of Dell 2400 Computer Model)
• Zhao, Y., M.N. Katehakis. 2006. On the Structure of Optimal Ordering Policy for Stochastic Inventory Systems with Minimum Order Quantity. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 20: 257-270
• Simchi-Levi, D., Y. Zhao. 2005. Safety Stock Positioning in Supply Chains   with Stochastic Lead-times. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 7: 295-318
• Simchi-Levi, D., Y. Zhao. 2004. The Value of Information Sharing in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with Production Capacity Constraint: The Infinite Horizon Case. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 18: 247-274
• Simchi-Levi, D., Y. Zhao. 2003. The Value of Information Sharing in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with Production Capacity Constraint. Naval Research Logistics 50: 888-916

In the Media:

· Zhao, Y., A. Shenhar. 2011. Why 787 slips were inevitable. Aviation Week & Space Technology, ViewPoint article, February 28, pg. 58.

· Zhao, Y. 2013. Model management: project-driven supply chains – integrating supply chain planning with project management. International Innovation, May 2013, pg. 56-58.

· Iacocca K., Y. Zhao. 2015. Resell vs. Direct Models: US Branded Drug Distribution in the Future. Pharmaceutical Executive, July 12, 2015. http://www.pharmexec.com/resell-vs-direct-models-us-branded-drug-distribution-future.

Others:

· Simchi-Levi, D., Y. Zhao. 2011. Performance Evaluation of Multi-Echelon Stochastic Inventory Systems: A Survey.

· Zhao, Y. 2005. Coordination of Installation Base-Stock Policies in Supply Chains with Compound Poisson Demand. The version with periodic-review polices.

· Zhao, Y. 2006. Performance Analysis of Assemble-to-Order Systems with Compound Poisson Demand and Batch Ordering Policies. (The example of Dell Dimension 3000 computer model).