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Jun Zhang
Assistant Professor of Information & Operations Management
The School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas
Box 830688, Mail Station SM30, Richardson, TX 75083
abo1uy@r.postjobfree.com
972-***-**** (Office) 214-***-**** (Cell)
RESEARCH
Supply Chain Management
INTERESTS
Supply chain management with supply and demand uncertainty
Supply chain competition
Operations and Marketing Interfaces
Retail bundling and supply chain performance
Store brand and supply chain power
Product return and supply chain performance
Service Operations
Design and management of multi-channel service systems
Consumer behavior in multi-channel service systems
TEACHING
Operations Management/Supply Chain Management
INTERESTS
Business Statistics/Spreadsheet Modeling
ACADEMIC
07/2006presentPOSITIONS The School of ManagementAssistant Professor
Information and Operations Management
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA 07/200007/2006
A.B. Freeman School of BusinessAssistant Professor (07/200207/2007
)
Visiting Assistant Professor (07/200006/2002
)
Information and Operations Management
INDUSTRY
EXPERIENCE
05/199909/1999Member of Technical Staff
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EDUCATION Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Graduate School of Industrial Administration
Ph.D. in Industrial Administration December, 2000
Major: Manufacturing and Operations Management
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Graduate School of Industrial Administration
M.S. in Industrial Administration May, 1997
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
School of Management
M.E. in Industrial and Systems Engineering January, 1991
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics July, 1988
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
Bell Labs., Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, New Jersey
JOURNAL
Supplier Diversification with Responsive Pricing, December 2011. Production
PUBLICATIONS
and Operations Management (forthcoming). (With Tao Li and Suresh Sethi).
Supply Chain Power Structure, Demand Uncertainty, and Product
Characteristics, December 2011. Production and Operations Management
(minor revision
). (With Jun Ru and Ruixia Shi).
Does Inventory Pooling Improve Customer Service Levels? November 2011.
Operations Research Letters (forthcoming). (With Meng Li).
Software Security Patch Management: Share the Burden or Share the Pain,
Management Science, 54
CONFERENCE
PUBLICATIONS
Nested Policies for Security Patch Management, 35 International Conference
on Computer and Industrial Engineering (CIE), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2005.
(With H. Cavusoglu and H. Cavusoglu).
Security Patch Management: Can t Live with it, Can t Live without it,
Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Washington, DC,
December 2004. (With H. Cavusoglu and H. Cavusoglu).
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WORKING
Site-to-Store or Store-to-Site? Application of One-Way Transshipment to Dual-
PAPERS
Channel Retailing, March 2009 (With Chao Liang, Suresh P. Sethi, and Ruixia
nd
Shi, under 2 review, Production and Operations Management).
Risk Pooling with Transshipment under Fill-Rate Based Inventory Decisions,
December 2011. (Under revision, Manufacturing and Service Operations
Management).
Are Supplier Diversification and Responsive Pricing Substitutes in Hedging
Supply Uncertainty? September 2011. (With Tao Li and Suresh Seth, under
revision, Management Science).
How Does Pricing Power Affect a Firm s Sourcing Decisions from Unreliable
Suppliers? September 2011. (With Tao Li and Suresh Seth, under review,
Production and Operations Management).
Why Are Banks still Opening More Branches? The Impact of Online Channel on
Offline Channel Capacity Expansion, Jan. 2011. (With M. Xue and L. Hitt).
Supply Side Incentive for Bundling, Sept. 2011. (With Qingning Cao and
Kathy Stecke, under review, Production and Operations Management).
RESEARCH IN
Store Band and Supply Chain Power. (With Jun Ru and Ruixia Shi).
PROGRESS
Store Brand and Guaranteed Retail Margin Contracts. (With Jun Ru and Ruixia
Shi).
Vendor Managed Inventory and Customer Store Loyalty. (With Jun Ru and
Ruixia Shi).
Impacts of Demand Uncertainty on Competitive Newsvendors. (With Meng Li).
Competing with a Bandit Supply Chain. (With Meng Li).
Retailer Return and Supply Chain Power (With Jingyun Li).
Consumer choice in a multi-channel service system: Customization vs.
Standardization. (With Mei Xue)
Consumer Return and Supply Chain Performance. (With Owen Ma).
PRESENTATION
Risk Pooling with Transshipment under Fill-Rate Based Inventory Decisions,
MSOM annual conference, Atlanta, GA, July, 2007.
Value of Risk Pooling: Impacts of Economic Parameters and Order Quantity,
INFORMS annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006
Capacity Investment with Capacity Exchange,
INFORMS annual conference,
San Francisco, CA, November 2005.
Supply Chain Structure in E-commerce and Its Impact on Supply Chain
Efficiency,
INFORMS annual conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2005.
Capacity Investment with Capacity Exchange, INFOR conference, Honolulu,
HI, July 2005.
Collaboration in Complementary Capacity with Information Asymmetry,
INFORMS annual conference, Denver, CO, October 2004.
Base-Stock Control of a General Assembly System with Supply and Demand
Uncertainty, INFORMS Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, October, 2002
A Decomposition Approach for Assembly Systems with Supply and Demand
Uncertainty, POMS annual conference, Savanna, GA, May 2003.
A Decomposition Approach for Assembly Systems with Supply and Demand
Uncertainty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2000.
A Decomposition Approach for Assembly Systems with Supply and Demand
Uncertainty, University of Texas at Dallas, February 2000.
A Decomposition Approach for Assembly Systems with Supply and Demand
Uncertainty, Tulane University, March 2000.
Demand Management through Guaranteed Lead Times in a Make-to-Order
Environment, INFORMS Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, November
2000.
Managing Component & End-Product Inventory under Demand & Supply
Uncertainty & Customer Service Level, INFORMS Annual Conference,
Philadelphia, PA, November 1999.
Managing Multi-Product Inventory Systems with Setup Costs using Downward
Conversion, INFORMS Conference, Cincinnati, OH, May 1999
TEACHING University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX Production Management
(Undergraduate)
EXPERIENCE Operations Management (MBA)
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Operations Management (Undergraduate)
Information Management Tools (MBA)
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Production (Undergraduate)
PHD STUDENT Ruixia Shi (UTD, graduated in 2008. Committee member). First position:
SUPERVISION Assistant Professor at University of Richmond.
Jun Ru (UTD, graduated in 2009. Co-advisor). First position: Assistant Professor
at SUNY Buffalo.
Chao Liang (UTD, expected to graduate in 2012. Co-advisor).
Qingning Cao (UTD, expected to graduate in 2013. Co-advisor).
Tao Li (UTD, expected to graduate in 2012. Committee member).
Meng Li (UTD, expected to graduate in 2013. Co-advisor).
Owen Ma (UTD, expected to graduate in 2014. Summer paper advisor).
Jingyun Li (UTD, expected to graduate in 2015. Summer paper advisor).
ACADEMIC Membership INFORMS Member
SERVICES DSI Member
POMS Member
Ad-hoc Senior Editor Production and Operations Management
Editorial Review Board Production and Operations Management
Decision Sciences
Reviewer Management Science
Operations Research
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Information Systems Research
Naval Research Logistics
Production and Operations Management
IIE Transactions
Interfaces
Annals of Operations Research
Session Chair INFORMS Conference, San Francisco, CA. November, 2005.
Cluster/Track Chair POMS Conference, Reno, NV, May, 2011
POMS Conference, Dallas, TX. May, 2007.
INFORMS Conference, Seattle, WA. November, 2007.