What are you teaching?…What are you working on?
I teach courses in operations management and business analytics for both undergraduate and graduate students, including BUS 355: Decision Modeling and Analytics, BUS 361: Foundations of Operations Management; BUS 455&552: Prescriptive Analytics, and BUS 491&591: Production and Service Operations Management.
I work on research projects in supply chain network management with a focus on time-sensitive products. Recently, my collaborators and I have been working on a multiperiod supply chain network model with environmental policies and investments in sustainable operations.
Why should students take this class?
Nowadays, data and analytics become more important to any business. That’s why BUS 355: Decision Modeling and Analytics is a business core course, which introduces students to decision modeling concepts and a number of analytical and quantitative methods to solve decision-making problems involving uncertainty or constraints in a variety of business settings. Furthermore, our OTM group provides elective courses in business data analytics. Prescriptive analytics is the final phase of business analytics, which recommends best business decisions. BUS 455&552: Prescriptive Analytics introduces how to use mathematical expressions to translate a verbally described business problem and further solve the problem using software tools.
Business organizations have three basic functional areas: finance, marketing, and operations. Operations management is the management of systems or processes that create goods and/or provide services; it is central to the functioning for every business organization. BUS 361: Foundations of Operations Management is a required course for OTM majors, introducing quantitative methods applicable to a wide variety of business problems, with special emphasis on queuing theory, quality management, inventory management, and scheduling. BUS 491&591: Production and Service Operations Management explores the use of advanced operations tools in production and service management and develops understanding of the impacts of variability in business operations, capacity management, and revenue management.
What are some fun things you like to do?
I like building Lego models, watching movies and TV shows, and hiking.
