Northwestern University Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences










  • Boray Huang Graduated 2004. Research Topic: Optimal Production-Inventory Policies in Supply Chains with Information Sharing. Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, School of Business Administration, The University of Mississippi.

  • Louis Luangkesorn Graduated 2004. Research Topic: Hybrid Produce-to-Order/Produce-to-Stock Systems. Joint supervision with David Simchi-Levi. Position after Graduation: Associate Operations Researcher, Rand Corporation. Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

  • Biying Shou Graduated 2004. Reserach Topic: Modeling and Knowledge Management of Agile Production Systems with Automation. Joint supervision with Wallace Hopp. Position after graduation: Supply Chain Analysts, 4R Systems. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Management Science, City University of Hong Kong.

  • Viji Krishnamurthy Graduated 2005. Research Topic: Design and Control of Production Systems with Agile Repair Crew and Advence Order Information. Position after Graduation: Supply Chain Integration, Lumileds Lighting.

  • Bora Kolfal Graduated in 2006. Research Topic: Flexibility in Production and Service Operations. Position after graduation: Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Alberta.

  • Gigi Yuen Graduated in 2006. Research Topic: Principles of White Collar Workforce Management, Joint supervision with Wallace J. Hopp Position after graduation: IBM Global Services.

  • Gary Chao Graduated Summer 2007. Research Topic: Warranty Contracts in Supply Chains. Joint Supper vision with Canan Savaskan. Position after graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Management, College of Business at Kutztown University.

  • Fang Liu Graduated in 2007. Research Topic: Knowledge Flow Networks in Production and Service Operations Systems, Joint supervision with Wallace J. Hopp. Current Position: Vice President Decision Support Modeling, Bank of America.

  • Taylan Ilhan Graduated Summer 2007. Research Topic: Stochastic Orienteering Problem. Joint supervision with Mark Daskin. Position after Graduation: Quantitative Research Analyst. Quantlab Financial, Houston.

  • Robert Lien Graduated Spring 2008. Research Topic: Design Principles for Effective Transshipment Networks, Joint supervision with Karen Smilowitz. Position after graduation: Senior Analyst, Beghou Consulting.

  • Bilal Gokpinar Graduated Spring 2008. Research Topic: Structure of Knowledge-Based Organizations. Joint Supervision with Wally Hopp. Position after graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Management Science and Innovation, University College London, London, England.

  • Zigeng Yin Graduated Spring 2009. Research Topic: Robustness of Supply Chains Subject to Random Interruption. Joint Supervision with Wally Hopp. Position after graduation: Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

  • Yao Cheng Expected graduation Summer 2010. Research Topic: Workload Crisis Management Modeling and Analysis Joint supervision with Wally Hopp.

  • Neda Ebrahim Khanjari. Expected graduation Summer 2012. Research Topic: Impact of Salesforce on Supply Chain Coordination. Joint supervision with Hyduk Shin and Mark Daskin.

  • Kenan Arifoglu. Expected graduation Summer 2012. Research Topic: Managing Supply Chains of Vaccines. Joint supervision with Sarang Deo.

  • Linlin Li. Expected graduation Summer 2012. Research Topic: Efficient Capacity Reservation Contract in Supply Chains with Transshipment. Joint supervision with Izak Duenyas.

  • Qifeng Shao. Expected graduation Summer 2012. Research Topic: Knowledge Crisis Management Modeling and Analysis.

  • Joseph Warfel. Expected graduation Summer 2013. Research Topic: Design of Operations for Retail Donations in Nonpro t Supply Chains. Joint Supervision with Karen Smilowitz.

  • Tingting Jiang. Expected graduation Summer 2013. Research Topic: Effective Management of Mobile Health Services. Joint Supervision with Karen Smilowitz and Sarang Deo.

  • Mengxiao Zhu. Expected graduation Summer 2013. Research Topic: Team Formation in Professional Work Systems. Joint Supervision with Noshir Contractor.

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