Professional Activities

Yao Zhao, PhD

Professor in

Supply Chain Management

News & Events

Talk at MIT – SDM on 787 Dreamliner:

 

 

Grants:

·       NSF CAREER Award (0747779): “Project-Driven Supply Chains (PDSCs) - Integrating Supply Chain Planning With Project Management.” $400,016 (2008-2013)

·       NSF EAGER (2015-2016): Collaborative: IC Supply Chain Security and Quality Control in Business and Social Context

Industry Consulting:

·       RobertWoodJohnson Hospitals (2018): Forecasting ICU admissions and behavior center readmissions.

·       XiaoDingDang Children Shoes T-Mall Store (2017): Price elasticity forecasting and promotion planning.

·       AdvanceScale (2016): Managing demand and service vehicles.

·       Fannie Mae (2015): Proactive supply chain analytics.

·       Special Olympics 2014 USA Games (2012-2013): Transportation planning, routing and scheduling

·       Verizon (2012): Supply chain inventory control

·       MTA New York City Transit (2011-2012): Forecasting and inventory management

·       Estee Lauder Companies (2001): Production and inventory control for new product launch

·       General Motors (2000): Forecasting and inventory management of service parts

Professional Services:

  • Associate Editor. Operations Research. 2012-2018
  • Associate Editor. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 2011-14
  • Ad-hoc Referee. European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IIE Transactions, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Marketing Science, Naval Research Logistics, Operations Research, Probability in Engineering and Information Sciences, Production and Operations Management, Stochastic Models
  • Reviewer. Multi-Echelon Conference 2006, M&SOM conference 2009, 2011
  • Judge. M&SOM student paper competition 2008-2018
  • Committee. IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2014-15
  • Panelist. NSF CMMI 2009, 2010, 2013

University Services:

  • Academic coordinator. The Ph.D. program in supply chain management
  • Faculty recruiting committee. 2008 – present
  • PhD admission committee. 2007 – present

 

Program Leadership:

  • Founding Co-director. The Master of Healthcare Services Management.
  • Founding Co-director. The Master Supply Chain Analytics.
  • Co-director. The Supply Chain Analytics Laboratory @ Rutgers.