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Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007; M.E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002; M.S., Syracuse University, 1998; M.S., University of Michigan, 1997; B.S., Peking University, 1995
Research Areas
Strategic supplier management, inventory management, dynamic pricing, supply chain contracting
Current Projects
Planning for product transitions, long-term supplier incentive design
Academic Positions Held
Arizona State University: 2007-present
Other Positions
Research Intern, Supply Chain Department, 3Com Inc., 2005-2006; Software Engineer, Open Market, Inc., 2000-2001; Software Engineer, Tickets.Com Inc., 1998-2000.
Representative Publications
“Pricing Multiple Products with the Multinomial Logit and Nested Logit Models: Concavity and Implications”, with Woonghee Tim Huh, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 13(4): 549-563.
"Pricing decisions during inter-generational product transition," with Stephen Graves, Production and Operations Management, 2012, 21(1): 14-28.
"Optimal Planning Quantities for Product Transition," with Stephen Graves and Donald Rosenfield, Production and Operations Management, 2010 19(2): 142-155.
“Dynamic Business Share Allocation in n a Supply Chain with Competing Suppliers” with Hao Zhang and Charles Fine, under review.
“Capacity planning for product transitions” with Stephen Graves and Woonghee Tim Huh, under review.
"A Population-Growth Model for Multiple Generations of Technology Products," with Dieter Armbruster and Karl Kempf, under review.
“Optimal pricing for short life-cycle products when customer price sensitivity varies over time”, with Woonghee Tim Huh, under review.