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Prof. Carri Chan

Prof. Carri ChanColumbia UniversityTalk: When to use Speedup: An Examination of Intensive Care Units with ReadmissionsBiography:Professor Chan teaches the core MBA class, Operations Management. Her primary research interests are in data-driven modeling of complex stochastic systems, dynamic optimization, and queueing with applications in health-care operations management. Her current focus is o...

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Prof. Xin Chen

Prof. Xin ChenUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTalk: Coordinated Pricing and Inventory Management with Reference Price EffectsBiography: Xin Chen obtained his PhD in Operations Research from MIT (2003), MS in Computational Mathematics from Chinese Academy of Sciences (1998) and BS in Computational Mathematics from Xiangtan University (1995). His research interest lies in optimization, ...

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Prof. Jim Dai

Prof. Jim DaiGeorgia Institute of TechnologyTalk: Inpatient Flow Management in a Singaporean HospitalBiography:Jim Dai joined Cornell University in 2012 as a professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE). Prior joining Cornell, he held the Chandler Family Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was a faculty me...

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Prof. A.G. (Ton) de Kok

Prof. A.G. (Ton) de KokEindhoven University of TechnologyTalk: Hierarchical Planning under UncertaintyBiography:Ton de Kok is a part-time Full Professor holding the chair of Quantitative analysis of logistical management problems in the section Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control at TU/e. He is Director of CWI in Amsterdam. His primary research areas are Supply Chain Management and Con...

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Prof. Avishai Mandelbaum

Prof. Avishai MandelbaumTechnion Israel Institute of TechnologyTalk: Service Engineering: Data-Based Science in Support of Service Management, or Empirical Adventures in Call Centers and HospitalsBiography:Professor Avishai Mandelbaum received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Mathematics from Cornell University in 1983. Prior to joining the Faculty, during 1983-1991, he was a professor at S...

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Prof. Paat Rusmevichientong

Prof. Paat RusmevichientongUniversity of Southern CaliforniaTalk: Robust Assortment Optimization Under the Multinomial Logit Choice ModelBiography:Paat Rusmevichientong is the Justin Dart Professor of Operations Management and Professor of Data Sciences and Operations in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining the Marshall School, he was a facu...

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Prof. Chung Piaw Teo

Prof. Chung Piaw TeoNational University of SingaporeTalk: On Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Marginal Distribution Choice Models - The Choice for Safety Features in VehicleBiography:TEO Chung Piaw is the Acting Deputy Dean at the NUS Business School, National University  of Singapore, and a Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences in NUS. Prior to his recent appointment, he was Vic...

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Prof. Tolga Tezcan

Prof. Tolga TezcanUniversity of RochesterTalk: Determining the Optimal Configuration of Hospital Inpatient Rooms in the Presence of Infectious PatientsBiography:Professor Tezcan’s current research explores innovative ways of designing and managing health care delivery systems. He has collaborated with customer contact centers and hospitals to address issues relating to access. Professor Tezcan...

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Prof. Yinyu Ye

Prof. Yinyu YeStanford UniversityTalk: Dynamic Learning Mechanisms in Revenue Management ProblemsBiography:Yinyu Ye is currently the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Engineering at the Department of Management Science and Engineering and Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University. He received the B.S. degree in System Engineering from the Huazhong Univer...

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Prof. Assaf Zeevi

Prof. Assaf ZeeviColumbia UniversityTalk:Recent work on multi armed bandits and their (mostly) OM applicationsBiography:Assaf Zeevi is the Henry Kravis Professor of Business at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He is broadly interested in the formulation and analysis of mathematical models motivated by problems in business settings. Assaf received his Ph.D. from Stanford Uni...

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Prof. Jiawei Zhang

Prof. Jiawei ZhangNew York UniversityTalk: Appointment Scheduling with Limited Distributional InformationBiography:Jiawei Zhang is the Michael Armellino Professor in Business and Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He joined NYU Stern's Operations Management Group in September 2004. He serves as the academic ...

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