{"435311":{"#nid":"435311","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar Series - Jiawei Zhang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Recent Results on Process Flexibility\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProcess\u0026nbsp;flexibility\u0026nbsp;has been widely applied in many industries as a competitive strategy to improve responsiveness to demand uncertainty. In their seminal work, Jordan and Graves proposed an important\u0026nbsp;flexibility\u0026nbsp;concept, called the long chain design, and studied its empirical performance.\u0026nbsp;In this talk, we summarize\u0026nbsp;recent\u0026nbsp;theoretical developments in understanding the effectiveness of the long chain design as well as other sparse\u0026nbsp;flexibility\u0026nbsp;structures.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJiawei\u0026nbsp;Zhang is Professor of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Harold MacDowell Faculty Fellow at the Stern School of Business,\u0026nbsp;New York University. He\u0026nbsp;holds a PhD from\u0026nbsp;Stanford University\u0026nbsp;and a\u0026nbsp;B.S. degree\u0026nbsp;and an M.S. degree from Tsinghua University.\u0026nbsp; Professor Zhang\u0027s\u0026nbsp;research interests include business analytics and optimization.\u0026nbsp;His work has appeared in \u003Cem\u003EManagement Science\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EManufacturing and Service Operations\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMathematical Programming,\u0026nbsp;Mathematics of Operations Research\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EOperations Research\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESIAM Journal on Computing\u003C\/em\u003E, etc.\u0026nbsp;Professor Zhang was a recipient of the\u0026nbsp;INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers in 2004. He currently\u0026nbsp;serves as Associate Editor for several journals including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EOperations Research\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(2006-),\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMathematics\u0026nbsp;of Operations Research\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(2009-), and\u003Cem\u003E Management Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(2014-).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar Series - Jiawei Zhang"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-08-17 15:50:16","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:48","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-14T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-14T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-14T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-14 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-14 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-14 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}