speaker: Zizhuo Wang | Prof., The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen.

Takeaway: point of view of bridging practice and research.

For industry solutions:

  1. Need to consider a lot of details
  2. Need to be fast and intepretation, therefore requires simple solutions
  3. Don’t care about theory.

For academic works:

  1. Need abstract to focus
  2. Graced with time
  3. Expect some generality, therefore theory.

TALK ABSTRACT:

In the past years, there have been growing number of companies in China that adopt OR methods in their operations. There are also several interesting research questions that arise in those application problems. In this talk, we present some recent projects and some of the research questions that come from those scenarios.

(some of) the featured papers:

Aggregation Bias in Estimating Log-Log Demand Functions (with Chaolin Yang, Hongsong Yuan and Yaowu Zhang). Production and Operations Management, 2021. Link.

Optimal Partition for Multi-Type Queueing System. Shengyu Cao, Simai He, Zizhuo Wang, Yifan Feng. Major Revision, MOR, 2023.