Research Interests

• Decisions Under Uncertainty, E-business, Auction Design, and Numerical PDEs
• Game Theory and Optimization in Supply Chain Management

Selected Publications

• Models and Algorithms for Reliable Facility Location Problems and System Reliability Optimization (PhD Dissertation, University of Florida) INFORMS UPS-SOLA Dissertation Award Finalist
• Ranked Items Auctions and Online Advertisement (With Z. Shen and J. Feng) Production and Operations Management 16(4), 510-522.  
• Optimality and Efficiency in Auctions Design: A Survey (Pareto Optimality, Game Theory and Equilibria, A. Migdalas, P.M. Pardalos, and L. Pitsoulis, editors, Springer (2008).)  
• Newsvendor Problem with Pricing: Properties, Algorithms and Simulation (With Z. Shen, Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference)  
• Ranked Items Auctions (With Z. Shen and J. Feng, Proceedings of the 2005 IIE Research Conference)  
• A Dynamic Boolean Model of Roll-Over Financing for Residential Real Estate Development in China (With Leung, Grosskopf and Issa, Proceeding of Construction Research Congress 2005, San Diego, CA, April 2005)  
• Estimation of Chlorophyll Concentration in Vegetation Using Global Optimization Approach (With Yatsenko, Kochubey and Pardalos, Proceedings of SPIE}, Vol.5071:174-182.)