Wei Chen

Wei Chen
  • Associate Professor
  • Analytics, Information, Operations academic area

Contact Info

785-864-7536
Capitol Federal Hall, Room 3116
Lawrence

Education —

Ph.D. in Operations Management, University of Texas, 2015, Dallas
M.S. in Supply Chain Management, University of Texas, 2014, Dallas
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010, Beijing, China
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 2004, Hefei, China

Research —

Research interests:

  • Supply chain management
  • purchasing and sourcing management
  • inventory management
  • behavioral operations management

Teaching —

Teaching interests:

  • Operations & supply chain management

Selected Publications —

Gupta, S., Chen, W., Dawande, M., Janakiraman, G. (2023). Three Years, Two Papers, One Course Off: Optimal Nonmonetary Reward Policies. Management Science - Issue 5 | Volume 69. https://doi.org/10.1287/MNSC.2022.4482.
Chen, W., Dawande, M., Janakiraman, G. (2018). Optimal Procurement Auctions Under Multistage Supplier Qualification. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management - Issue 3 | Volume 20. https://doi.org/10.1287/MSOM.2017.0664.
Gupta, S., Chen, W., Dawande, M., Janakiraman, G. (2015). Optimal Descending Mechanisms for Constrained Procurement. Production and Operations Management - Issue 12 | Volume 24. https://doi.org/10.1111/POMS.12385.
Chen, W., Dawande, M., Janakiraman, G. (2014). Integrality in Stochastic Inventory Models. Production and Operations Management - Issue 9 | Volume 23. https://doi.org/10.1111/POMS.12104.
Chen, W., Dawande, M., Janakiraman, G. (2014). Fixed-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamic Programs: An Approximation Scheme and an Inventory Application. Operations Research - Issue 1 | Volume 62. https://doi.org/10.1287/OPRE.2013.1239.
Chen, W. (2009). A Direct Construction of Polynomial-Size OBDD Proof of Pigeon Hole Problem. Information Processing Letters - Issue 10 | Volume 109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2009.01.006.