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Research Seminar at Universities:

“Resell vs. Direct Models in Brand Drug Distribution”

  • Columbia University, Dept. of  Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health (05/2010)

     “Project-Driven Supply Chains: Integrating Supply Chain and Project Management”

 

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong, SEEM, Hong Kong (07/2009)

"Non-holdback Allocation Rules in Assemble-to-Order Systems."

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong, SEEM Dept., HK (06/2008)
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Logistics Dept., HK (06/20080)
  • City University of Hong Kong, School of Business, HK (06/2008)
  • Mathematics and System Science Division, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. (07/2008)
  • Peking University, School of Engineering, Beijing, China (07/2008)

"Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Assemble-to-Order Systems with Stochastic Sequential Lead-times."

  • Drexel University, School of Business, PA (05/2006)
  • Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, Stern School of Business, New York University, NY (04/2006)
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, MA (10/2005)
  • Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, North Carolina State University, NC (11/2005)
  • Dept of Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC (10/2005)
  • Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, NC (09/2005)

"Safety Stock Positioning in Supply Chains with Stochastic Lead-times."

  • Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR), Rutgers University, NJ (10/2004)
  • Industrial & System Engineering, Rutgers University, NJ (02/2004)

"The Value of Information Sharing in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with Production Capacity Constraint."

  • Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, CA (01/2002)
  • Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Miami, FL (01/2002)
  • Sloan School of Management, MIT, MA (11/2001)
  • Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, IL (10/2001)
  • Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, MI (03/2001)
  • Industrial, Welding and System Engineering, Ohio State University, OH (02/2001)

 

 

 

Invited Talks to Industry:

  • “Resell vs. Direct Models in Brand Drug Distribution”. Expeditors International, NJ (11/2009)
  • "Integrating Inventory Planning with Project Management." IBM Watson Research Center, NY (3/2008)
  • "Evaluation and Optimization of Installation Base-Stock Policies in Supply Chains with Compound Poisson Demand." SAS Corporation, NC (11/2005)
  • "Reducing Destruction Cost by Improving Forecasts and Retail Replenishment Processes for Newly Released Products." Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., NY (11/2001)
  • "The Value of Information Sharing in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with Production Capacity Constraint." United Technology Research Center, CT (12/2000)
  • "Setting Forecasts and Initial Ordering Quantities for Newly Identified Service Parts." Service Part Operations, General Motors, MI (10/1999)

 

Conference Presentations:

  • "Lead Times, Cost and Allocation Rules on the Value of Component Commonalty." Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. November 4-7, 2007
  • "Price-Only Contracts with Backup Supply." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) 2007 conference. Beijing, China. June 18-19, 2007
  • "Performance Analysis of Acyclic Supply Chains." INFORMS Annual Meeting. Pittsburg, PA. November 4-8, 2006
  • "Make-to-Stock Production-Inventory Systems: IPA Gradients." International Workshop on Applied Probability. University of Connecticut, CT. May 15-18, 2006
  • "Evaluation and Optimization of Installation Base-Stock Policies in Supply Chains with Compound Poisson Demand." INFORMS Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. November 13-16, 2005
  • "Make-to-Stock Systems with Backorders: IPA Gradients." The Winter Simulation Conference. Washington D.C. December 5-8, 2004
  • "On the Structure of Optimal Policies for Stochastic Inventory Systems with Minimum Order Quantity." INFORMS Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. October 24-27, 2004
  • "Performance Evaluation of Large-Scale Assemble-to-Order systems with Batch Ordering." INFORMS Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. October 24-27, 2004
  • "Evaluation of Continuous Time Base-Stock Policies in Large-Scale Assemble-to-Order Systems." INFORMS Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. October 19-22, 2003
  • "Inventory Allocation in Supply Chains with Stochastic Lead-time." INFORMS Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA. November 17-20, 2002
  • "The Impact of Information Sharing on Forecasting Accuracy in Multi-Stage Supply Chains." INFORMS Annual Meeting. Miami Beach, FL. November 4-7, 2001
  • "The Value of Information Sharing in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with Production Capacity Constraints." INFORMS Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX. November 5-8, 2000