4th Online Doctoral Workshop on Supply Chain Analytics

Objective: To prepare Ph.D. students for the academic and industry job market and help junior faculty with teaching, research and tenure.

Format: One day, online, no registration fee

Program schedule:

• 8:50am-9am: Welcome and Opening Remark    

• 9:00am-10:30am: Morning 1st session   

  • Moderator
    Michael R. Galbreth
    Professor, Pilot Corporation Chair, Department Head of Business Analytics and Statistics, University of Tennessee

    Getting the right job! (Factors for your advantage):

    •  2023 academic job outlook                
    •  2023 industry job outlook                
    •  Job preparation                        
    •  The employer perspectives            
        
    Panelists 
    Li Chen, Breazzano Family Term Professor of Management, Area Chair for Operations, Technology, and Information Management, Cornell University
    Gerry Feigin, Ph.D., Partner and Director, Data Science, Boston Consulting Group
    Yingdong Lu, Ph.D., Center for Optimization under Uncertainty Research, IBM Research
    Shen Yeniyurt, Professor and Vice Dean, Rutgers Business School

• 10:45am-12:15pm: Morning 2nd session 

  • Moderator
    Larry Snyder, Harvey E. Wagner Endowed Chair Professor and Director, Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC), Lehigh University

    I got my dream job. Now WHAT? (Transitioning to a faculty member, work in the industry): 

    •  Change of focus                            
    •  Managing multiple demands - teaching, research, service 
    •  Work-life balance                     
    •  Independent work vs. working with senior faculty    
    •  Working with PhD students
    •  Working in a corporate setting  

    Panelists
    Joe Geunes, Professor, Marilyn and L. David Black Faculty Fellow and Associate Department Head, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University
    Brian Han, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Will Ma, Assistant Professor, Decision, Risk, and Operations (DRO) division, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
    Prakhar Mehrotra, Ph.D., Walmart Global Tech VP Machine Learning and US Omni Tech
    Zhengliang (Zack) Xue, Ph.D., Research Scientist in Business Analytics at IBM - T.J.Watson Research Center 

• 1:00pm-2:30pm: Afternoon 1st session 

  • Moderator
    Rachel Chen, Professor of Management, University of California, Davis

    Developing a teaching, research and communication strategy:
    •  From methodology to applications
    •  Audience focus and story telling
    •  How to identify a high-impact research topic … 
    •  How to acquire skills as careers progress
    •  Building your brand

    Panelists 
    Anitesh Barua, David Bruton Jr. Centennial Chair Professor Distinguished Fellow, University of Texas at Austin; INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Teaching Professor
    Cuihong Li, Department Head, Professor, Robert Cizik Chair in Manufacturing & Technology Management, Operations and Information Management, University of Connecticut
    Sridhar Seshadri, Alan J. and Joyce D. Baltz Endowed Professor, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Ozalp Ozer, George and Fonsa Brody Professor, Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas; Director of Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Science & Innovation, Operations Management, Amazon, Inc.
    Yong Tan, Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor of Information Systems, Chair, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington
    Christopher S. Tang, UCLA Distinguished Professor and Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration (video recording)

• 2:45pm to 4:00pm: Doctoral Dissertation Awards 

  • Moderator
    Lian Qi, Professor and Chair, Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School

Organizing committee:

• Joe Geunes, Professor, Marilyn and L. David Black Faculty Fellow and Associate Department Head, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University
• Ming Hu, University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Business Operations and Analytics, Editor-in-Chief of Naval Research Logistics
• Sridhar Seshadri (Chair), Alan J. and Joyce D. Baltz Endowed Professor, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Yao Zhao, Professor and Co-Director of Rutgers Supply Chain Analytics Laboratory, Rutgers Business School

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