Prof. Zizhuo Wang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen
Talk:
Practicing OR/OM in China: A Few Application Cases and Research Projects
Abstract:
In the past years, there have been growing number of companies in China that adopt OR methods in their operations. There are also several interesting research questions that arise in those application problems. In this talk, we present some recent projects and some of the research questions that come from those scenarios.
Biography:
Zizhuo Wang is a Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Data Science. He is also the co-founder and CTO of Cardinal Operations (杉数科技). He obtained his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 2007, and his Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Stanford University in 2012. His research interests mainly focus on optimization and stochastic modeling, especially with applications to pricing and revenue management. He has published over 50 papers in top journal in the field of operations research and management science, and has been the Associate Editors or Senior Editors for the top journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, MSOM and POMS. Zizhuo Wang has extensive experiences in applying data-driven methods in industry. In 2016, he co-founded Cardinal Operations with others, which served over 200 enterprises to provide data-driven decision support service and products.
