The purpose of the event is to provide networking opportunities for female scholars in the field of Operations Research, Operations Management and Industrial Engineering.
We have invited distinguished scholars and leaders in the above fields to serve as panelists and share their perspectives on challenges associated female scholar career advancement at various stages, and/or their experience of overcoming those challenges and dealing with work/life balance.
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Lingxiu DongUniversity of Washington in St. Louis |
Rachel ChenUniversity of California, Davis |
Dr. Xiajun Amy Pan is an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at University of Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain and Operations Management from McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. She also holds a M.Eng. from National University of Singapore and a B.Eng. from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. Her research interests include supply chain management, retail operations management, business analytics, and operations-marketing/information interface. She has conducted consulting projects for a large transportation company and developed decision models, saving millions of dollars for the company. She also investigates big data analytics, particularly machine learning and deep reinforcement learning, in retail operations and healthcare. Dr. Pan has published papers in top journals such as Marketing Science, Manufacturing Service and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management. She won the Wickham Skinner Award for Best Paper Published in Production and Operations Management during 2012.
Dr. Sammi Yu Tang is an associate professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at University of Miami Business School. Her research addresses issues related to risk management, outsourcing and procurement strategies, and information sharing in supply chain management. Her research has appeared in top journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences and OMEGA, and has been supported by the Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation at Washington University, the James W. McLamore Research Award, and the Provost Research Award at University of Miami. She has worked with organizations such as University of Miami Health System. Sammi serves as an Editorial Review Board Member of Production and Operations Management journal, an officer for Women in Operations Research and Management Science society, and is a member of INFORMS, Production and Operations Management Society, and the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society. Sammi received her B.S. in Economics and Geophysics from Peking University, China and MSBA and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
Dr. Yulan Wang is currently an associate professor in the Department of the Logistics and Maritime Studies at the Faculty of Business of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her Ph.D degree in Business Administration from Duke University. She obtained both her BS and MS degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research work has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, among others. Her research interests include supply chain management, sustainability operations, and the behavioral issues in operations management. She serves as the senior editor for Production and Operations Management and the associate editor for Omega. She is the editorial review board member of Production and Operations Management and the editorial advisory board member of Transportation Research - Part E.
Dr. Shuya Yin is currently an associate professor at the Paul Merage School of Business of the University of California, Irvine. She joined the Merage School faculty in July 2005. Her recent research addresses various problems in decentralized retail supply chains by using non-cooperative and cooperative game theory. Professor Yin is interested in issues including product-return between channel members, secondary market for durable products, alliances of players in selling and buying, timing of operational decisions, and management of information flow on uncertain demand. Her research has been published in academic journal such as Management Science, Operations Research, Marketing Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Naval Research Logistics. She obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in engineering management from Southeast University in Nanjing, China; and a Ph.D. in management science with a minor in transportation and logistics from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
