Presentations

◊ Conferences

1. Near-Optimal Balancing Policies for Inventory Control Models with Regenerative Capacity, with Juan Senga, The Eleventh POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China, January 2020.
2. Blood Inventory Management with Stochastic Supply and Demand, with Juan Senga, MSOM Conference, Singapore, June 2019.
3. Efficiency of Sparse Sets of Routes in the Periodic Inventory Routing Problem, with Luca Bertazzi, Demetrio Lagana and Rosario Paradiso, The Tenth POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China, January 2019.
4. Optimal Multi-Unit Allocation with Costly Verification, with Gaoji Hu and Fang Liu, The Tenth POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China, January 2019.
5. Delay Announcement: Managing Non-Cooperative Behavior of Disaster Survivors in Post-Disaster Recovery, with Fang Liu and Di Yin, The Tenth POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China, January 2019.
6. Efficiency of Sparse Sets of Routes in the Periodic Inventory Routing Problem, with Luca Bertazzi, Demetrio Lagana and Rosario Paradiso, INFORMS International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2018.
7. Sensitivity Analysis on Responsive Pricing and Production Under Imperfect Demand Updating, with Yan Liu, The Eighth POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China, January 2017.
8. Optimal Policies for Inventory Systems with Limited Number of Free Replenishments, with Onur Alper Kilic, POMS Annual Conference, Orlando, USA, May 2016.
9. Production Planning with Advance Demand Information Using Real Options, with Zhiguang Han and Shaoxiang Chen, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, November 2015.
10. Multi-Stage Process Flexibility Design using Constraint Sampling and Cross Moment Methods, with Shaoxiang Chen and Zhiguang Han, 10^th Triennial Conference of the Association of Asia-Pacific Operational Research Societies, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, August 2015.
11. Responsive Pricing Newsvendor with Imperfect Demand Updating, with Yan Liu, The Sixth POMS-HK International Conference, Guangzhou, China, January 2015.
12. Unsold versus Unbought Commitment: Minimum Total Commitment Contracts with Nonzero Setup Costs, with Youhua Frank Chen, Xing Liu and Quan Yuan, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, November 2014.
13. Unsold versus Unbought Commitment: Minimum Total Commitment Contracts with Nonzero Setup Costs, with Youhua Frank Chen, Xing Liu and Quan Yuan, The 2014 POMS International Conference, Singapore, July 2014.
14. Hub and Chain: Process Flexibility Design in Asymmetric Systems Using Variance Information, with Shaoxiang Chen and Zhiguang Han, The 2014 POMS International Conference, Singapore, July 2014.
15. Unsold versus Unbought Commitment: Minimum Total Commitment Contracts with Nonzero Setup Costs, with Youhua Frank Chen, Xing Liu and Quan Yuan, 20^th Conference of the IFORS, Barcelona, Spain, July 2014.
16. Process Flexibility Design Using Demand Variance Information, with Shaoxiang Chen and Zhiguang Han, The Fourth POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China, January 2013.
17. Design of Multi-Stage Process Flexibility, with Shaoxiang Chen and Zhiguang Han, The Fourth POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China, January 2013.
18. Inventory Based Pricing for Perishable Products: To Discount or Not, with Arvind Sainathan and Reza Mokhlesi, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, October 2012.
19. Hub and Chain: A Variance-based Method for Designing Process Flexibility, with Shaoxiang Chen and Zhiguang Han, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, October 2012
20. Near-Optimal Algorithms for the Stochastic Inventory Problem with Remanufacturing, with S. Viswanathan and Yan Feng, MSOM Conference, New York, USA, June 2012.
21. On (r,Q) Policies in Continuous Review Inventory Systems with Remanufacturing and Setup Costs, with Yan Feng and S. Viswanathan, POMS Annual Conference, Chicago, USA, April 2012
22. On the Effectiveness of (r,Q) Policies in Continuous Review Inventory Systems with Remanufacturing and Setup Costs, with Yan Feng and S. Viswanathan, The Third POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China, January 2012.
23. Value of the Third Chain: Effect of Partial Production Postponement on Process Flexibility, POMS Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 2010.
24. The Value of a Third Chain: Process Flexibility and Production Postponement, with Mabel Chou and Chung-Piaw Teo, MSOM Conference, Boston, USA, June 2009.
25. Efficiency of the Long Chain: A Random Walk Approach, with Mabel Chou and Chung-Piaw Teo, MSOM Conference, Beijing, China, June 2007.
26. Popularity versus Optimality: A Consensual Solution to Models of Uncertainty, with Mabel Chou, Melvyn Sim and Chung-Piaw Teo, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA, November 2006.
27. On the Value of Process Flexibility Structures Considering Sales Revenues and Production Costs, with Mabel Chou, Asia-Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS) Conference, Makati, Philippines, January 2006.

◊ Seminars

1. Improving Supply Chain Visibility and Responsible Sourcing with Blockchains, invited session at Nanyang Technological University, First Inter-College Blockchain Symposium, January 2019.
2. Enhancing Coordination in Humanitarian Operations in Asia, invited seminar at Xiamen University, School of Management, November 2016.
3. Unsold versus Unbought Commitment: Inventory Control with Minimum Total Commitment, invited seminar at Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management, November 2015.
4. Responsive Pricing Newsvendor with Demand Forecast Updating, invited seminar at City University of Hong Kong, Department of Management Sciences, June 2015.
5. Unsold versus Unbought Commitment: Minimum Total Commitment Contracts with Nonzero Setup Costs, invited seminar at Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, September 2014.
6. Unsold versus Unbought Commitment: Minimum Total Commitment Contracts, invited seminar at National University of Singapore, Department of Decision Sciences, April 2014.
7. On the Performance of Sparse Process Structures in Partial Postponement Production Systems, invited seminar at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Hong Kong, China, January 2013.
8. On the Performance of Sparse Process Structures in Partial Postponement Production Systems, invited talk at Workshop on Supply Chains, Singapore Management University, December 2012.
9. Analysis and Design of Process Flexibility, invited seminar at Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Business School, September 2008.