Wei Chen


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

Contact Info

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 management
  • supply chain management

Selected Publications

Chen, W., Dawande, M., & Janakiraman, G. (2018). Optimal Procurement Auctions under Multi-Stage Supplier Qualification [Journal Articles]. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 20(3), 389–600.
Gupta, S., Chen, W., Dawande, M., & Janakiraman, G. (2015). Optimal Descending Mechanisms for Constrained Procurement [Journal Articles]. Production and Operations Management, 24(12), 1955–1965.
Chen, W., Dawande, M., & Janakiraman, G. (2014). Fixed-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamic Programs: An Approximation Scheme and an Inventory Application [Journal Articles]. Operations Research, 62(1), 81–103.
Chen, W., Dawande, M., & Janakiraman, G. (2014). Integrality in Stochastic Inventory Models [Journal Articles]. Production and Operations Management, 23(9), 1646–1663.
Chen, W., & Zhang, W. (2009). A Direct Construction of Polynomial-Size OBDD Proof of<br>Pigeon Hole Problem [Journal Articles]. Information Processing Letters, 109(10), 472–477.