Revenue management: robust
single-leg seat allocation policies with limited information;
distribution-free methods for simultaneous overbooking and
seat inventory control problems.
Order promising and fulfilment:
due-date management, online delivery date quoting.
Perishable
inventory management: study the impacts of
upgrade and downgrade substitutions using simulations.
Robust
optimization; integer and linear programming.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
Research
Assistant, Fall 2003 – Present: Robert H. Smith School
of Business, University of Maryland.
+ Revenue management and due date
management in supply chains, using robust optimization and the
cross-entropy method.
+ Perishable inventory management in
services and supply chains.
Research
Assistant, Summer 2003: Department of Computer Science,
College of William & Mary.
+ Large-scale simulations using
structural caching schemes.
Research
Assistant, Fall 1998 – Fall 1999: Guanghua
School of Management, Beijing University.
+ Designed and developed a web-based
business simulation tool for MBA teaching & general management
training.
