Research Impact
Ranked 13th in research among 1,376 U.S. professors in operations management, in an article by Prof. Bin Jiang (March 2008).
Ranked 1st for publications in the research field of scheduling in Operations Research over the period 1952–2019, in a bibliometric study by A. Calma et al. (Operations Research, October 2021)
Author of 8 of the 128 articles in the h-index of Operations Research over the period 1952–2019, as of July 2021.
Originator of Supply Chain Scheduling topic, with more than 3,700 works cited on Google Scholar, and supported by 2 National Science Foundation grants.
Author of works cited more than 7,300 times on Google Scholar, with an h-index of 38.
Research Interests
Project management, especially the use of modern optimization and robust optimization methods to address the main planning and execution decisions and their associated tradeoffs within project management.
Supply chain scheduling, especially the coordination of operational decisions across multiple functions by a single decision maker, and the coordination of decisions among multiple self-interested decision makers for improved overall supply chain performance.
Behavioral issues in operations, especially the effect of present bias on operational decision making, and the design of incentives to mitigate its effects on operational performance.
Sports analytics, especially the design of tournaments to improve the effectiveness of tournament outcomes and to reduce the incidence of anti-competitive strategic behavior such as shirking.
Academic Presentations
- 423 academic presentations in 29 countries.
- 20 conference keynote presentation.
- 10 INFORMS national conference tutorials.
Selected Applied Research and Consulting
- Performed various consulting projects conducted under the business name CDOR, providing advice on planning, scheduling, and project management to companies in the central Ohio business community.
- New York City law firm. Advised the firm’s client by evaluation of its intellectual property rights for protection of its existing patent against a counterclaim regarding a heuristic algorithm for a famous operations research problem.
- BancOne Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona. Developed forecasting and inventory control models and software for optimizing the amount of cash float to maintain in a network of ATM machines in several
Western states. - The National Cancer Institute, Washington, D.C. Developed and implemented an optimization model that saved 43,500 lives as part of the ASSIST smoking control project, at that time the largest procurement ever by the National Institutes of Health.
- O.M. Scott & Sons, Marysville, Ohio. Developed models for improving process flows and setup times for the largest manufacturer of fertilizer in the U.S.
- Visiline, Inc. Served as a member of the company’s Board of Advisors. Offering technical oversight for software product development, and assistance with business plan development.
Selected Research Grants
- “Project Management Theory and Models in the Big Data Era”, National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, September 2017 ($358,784).
- “Analysis of Approximate Planning Horizons”, Mathematical Sciences Programme, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom), December 2005 ($18,200).
- “Supply Chain Scheduling”, Manufacturing Enterprise Systems Program, Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation, National Science Foundation, August 2004 ($150,000).
- “Improved Measures for Evaluating Facility Layouts”, Design and Integration Engineering Program, Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation, National Science Foundation, September 1999 ($367,400).
- “Japan – U.S. Joint Research on Risk Management of the Social System During the Emergency Period”, Japanese Ministry of Education, December 1996 ($105,000).
- “A Model for Making Project Funding Decisions”, The National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, June 1991 ($20,000).
- “Applications of Operations Research to Manufacturing Systems”, A.T. & T. Network Systems, Columbus, Ohio, October 1989 ($92,800).
International Research Activities
Visiting Professor, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China, Summer 2017–2019.
April — May 2016: Department of Business Analytics, University of Sydney, Australia.
May 2008, June — August 2009, June — August 2010, June — July 2016: Visiting Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore.
June — July 2006: Visiting Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
December 2004, June 2006, May 2008, August 2010, June 2011: Visiting Professor, Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
November 2004, July 2006, August 2010, June 2011: Visiting Professor, Department of Logistics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
From May 2002: Fellow, Center for Decision Making with Uncertainty, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
November 2000, July 2001, July 2002, July 2003, September 2004: Visiting Academic, Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton, U.K.
October – December 1995: Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Policy Science, Saitama University, Urawa, Japan.
Presented 42 papers at international conferences in 20 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom.
Presented 47 invited seminars at international universities in 13 countries: Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Taiwan, Tunisia, United Kingdom.
