EDUCATION

PhD    Computer Application Technology (in Business Intelligent Systems), Tsinghua University (2002),
BS      Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University (1998),

EXPERIENCE

Academic

01/2006-present       Professor of Operations and Information Management, Sun Yat-sen Business School
10/2009-present       Senior Visiting Professor, Grenoble de Management, France
07/2010-09/2010      Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong
05/2003-01/2006      Visiting Scholar, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
07/2002-04/2003      Research Staff Member, IBM Research Lab (Beijing)

Oversea

Global Business Management Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, Oct. 2008
Executive MBA Hawaii Field Study Program, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA, Sept. 2008
Data Mining Training for Educator，SAS Education, Long Beach, USA, Aug. 2007
Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered Learning，Harvard Business School, Boston, USA, Jan. 2007

PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED JOURNAL & PROCEEDING ARTICLES (since 2005)

2010

1.A multi-objective optimization for green supply chain network design, Decision Support Systems, Forthcoming. (with Xiaofan Lai and Ning Shi)

2.A comprehensive survey of the reviewer assignment problem, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making,v.9(4), pp. 645-668, 2010. (with Ben Chen and Ning Shi)

2009

3.A compromised large-scale neighborhood search heuristic for capacitated air cargo loading planning, European Journal of Operational Research, v.199(2), pp. 553-560, 2009. (with Yanzhi Li and Yi Tao)

4.A general approach to multi-item capacitated dynamic lot-sizing problems, Proceeding of International Conference on Publication 2009, pp. 797-802, 2009. (With Yanzhi Li and Yi Tao)

5.A Survey on Vehicle Routing Problem with Loading Constraints, Proceeding of International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization 2009, v. 2, pp.602-206, 2009. (with Yi Tao and Ning Shi)

6.On Scheduling Concurrent Multicast Sessions over Resource Reserved Network, Proceeding of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2008), India, pp. 1-6, 2009. (With Xiaoyu Zhang)

2008

7.Effective neighborhood operators for solving the flexible demand assignment problem, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v.5(2), pp.289-297, 2008. (with Andrew Lim)

8.The bidding selection and assignment problem with minimum quantity commitment, Journal of Operational Research Society, v.59, pp.693-702, 2008. (with Andrew Lim and Zhou Xu)

9.A Survey on Reviewer Assignment Problem, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer，v.5028, 2008 (with Ben Chen and Zhaowei Miao)

10.Meta-heuristic Algorithm for the Transshipment Problem with Fixed Transportation Schedules, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer，v.5028, 2008 (with Zhaowei Miao, Ke Fu and Qi Fei)

11.The automated guided vehicle problem in logistics operations, Proceeding of 2008 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, pp.1-6, 2008. (with Zhaowei Miao, Guojun Ji and Rui Qiang)

2007

12.A stochastic beam search for the berth allocation problem, Decision Support Systems, v.42(4), pp.2186-2196, 2007. (with Andrew Lim)

13.A Compromised Large-Scale Neighborhood Search Heuristic for Cargo Loading Planning, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer，V4830, pp.721-726, 2007. (with Yanzhi Li and Yi Tao)

2006

14.The one-commodity pickup and delivery traveling salesman problem on a path or a tree, Networks, v.48(1), pp.24-35, 2006. (with Andrew Lim and Zhou Xu)

15.A transportation problem with minimum quantity commitments, Transportation Science, v.40(1), pp.117-129, 2006. (with Andrew Lim and Zhou Xu)

2005

16.Multi-depot vehicle routing problem: one-stage approach, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v.2(4), pp.397-402, 2005. (with Andrew Lim)

17.k-center problems with minimum coverage, Theoretical Computer Science, v.332(1), pp. 1-17, 2005. (with Andrew Lim and Brian Rodrigues and Zhou Xu)

18.A 2-approximation algorithm for capacitated traveling salesman problem with pickup and delivery on a tree, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer，v.3827, pp.1061-1070, 2005. (with Andrew Lim and Zhou Xu)

19.Robust airport gate assignment problem, Proceeding of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI2005), Hong Kong, pp.74-81, 2005. (with Andrew Lim).

20.Meta-heuristics for robust graph coloring problem, Proceeding of 16th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence with Tools (ICTAI2005), USA, pp.514-518, 2005. (with Andrew Lim).

RANK AND AWARDS (partial list)

New Century Excellent Talent, 2010, by Department of Education of China

The Chinese Most Ten Respected Business School Professors Awards (2009) (http://www.meetboss.com/meeting/MBA/2009/yzmba.htm )

IBM Faculty Award, 2008

Asian Champion and World Fourth Place (as coach), ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, 2002

First Prize of University Teaching Achievement Award, 2001 (by Beijing City Government)

Best Student Paper Award, the 2nd International Symposium of Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Asian Champion and World Seventh Place (as contestant), ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, 1998

PROFESSIONAL

Research Funding (partial list)

National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2007, 2009
National Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong, 2006
IBM, Sinotrans, Chu Kong Shipping, China Mobile, Zhanjiang Commercial Bank, Le Cong Town Government, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Editorial Responsibilities

Editorial Board

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers (since 2007)

Guest Editor

International Journal of Operational Research (2010)
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (2007)

Program Committee

International Conference on Service Sciences (2010)
The 6th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (2010)
Special Conference on Metaheuristics: Applications and Methods (Chair, 2009)
The 3rd China Summer Workshop on Information Management (Chair, 2009)
The 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (2009)
The 5th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (2009)
The 4th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (2008)
International Conference on Production and Operations Management (2008)
The 17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (Local Chair, 2005)

Ad Hoc Reviewer (Partial List)

Operations Research, Transportation Science, IEEE Trans. Automation Science & Engineering, European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Support Systems, Computer & Operation Research

Panel Speaker and Session Chairs (major conferences and multiple times)

INFORMS Annual Meeting

Other Academic Services

AMBA Accreditation Assessment Panel, 2010
Research Committee, Sun Yat-sen Business School, 2007-
Academic Committee for MBA/EMBA, Sun Yat-sen University, 2008-

Professional Associations

INFORMS
POMS

Conference Presentations (INFORMS only; other conferences omitted)

Fan Wang and Yi Tao. 2010. A Compromised Large-scale Neighborhood Search Heuristic for Heterogeneous VRP. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, USA.

Yi Tao and Fan Wang. 2010. A New Packing Heuristic Based Approach for the VRP with Three-dimensional Loading Constraints. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, USA.

Keynote/Guest Speeches (partial list)

Research on service operations management (ChungYuan Christian University, 12/10)
Service operations management (Yuan Ze University, 12/10)
Green Supply Chain Network Design (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 05/10)

TEACHING (since 2006)

Management Information Systems (undergraduate-2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Management Information Systems (MBA-2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
E-Commerce & Information Management (EMBA-2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Procurement & Supply Chain Management (MBA-2010)
Operations Management (MBA -2007, 2008)
Service Operations Management (postgraduate - 2008)
Decision Support & Business Intelligence (ungraduate-2006)
IT Planning & Implementation (MPM-2006, 2007)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE (since 2006)

Associate Dean, 2008 -
University Academic Committee (MBA/EMBA), 2008 -
School Research Committee, 2007 - present
Department Chair, 2006-2008

DOCTORAL ADVISING & DISSERTATION COMMITTEE (since 2006)

Sun Yat-sen Business School

Adviser: Yi Tao (current student)
Shaorui Zhou (current student)
Jianjie Ke (current student)
Committee member: Jinghua Xiao (now faculty at Sun Yat-sen Business School)
Xin Dai (now faculty at Sun Yat-sen Business School)

External committee member for doctoral students at the following schools:
Lingnan College