Kan Wu

Education

• PhD Georgia Institute of Technology (2005 — 2009)
• MS University of California, Berkeley (1994 — 1996)

Work Experience

• TEFEN, Industrial Engineering and System Analysis Ltd.
  Industrial Engineering Consultant (6/96 – 5/98)
• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
  Principal Engineer, Central Planning & Production Control Departments (6/98 – 8/2001)
  Internal Consultant in Manufacturing Information Technology Division (9/2001 – 7/2003)
  
• Inotera Memories, Inc.
  Manager in Industrial Engineering Department (8/2003 – 8/2005)
• Sensor Analytics, Inc.
  CTO and Founding Team Member (1/2010 – 11/2010)

Key Areas of Research

• Industry 4.0
• Manufacturing system
• Queueing theory
• Supply chain management

Honors and Awards

• Silver medal of Taiwan Continuous Improvement Award (with UMC team), 2018
• Best paper award of International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing Intelligence, 2016
• Excellent paper award of International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering CIE 46, 2016
• The 3rd Place for the IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2010
• National Scholarship for Overseas Study from Taiwan Government, 2005
• TSMC e-Operations Symposium’s Best Analysis Award, 2003
• TSMC MITD Excellent Employee Award, 2002
• TSMC e-Operations Symposium’s Best Paper Award, 2002
• TSMC Patent Star, 2002
• Academic Achievement Award, 1993

Book

• Wu, K., 2014, New Results in Factory Physics, Scholars’ Press, ISBN-13: 978-3-639-66279-5, ISBN-10: 3639662792

Journal Publication

• Zheng, M. M., N. Du, Z. Hui, E. Huang and K. Wu, 2021, A Study on the Optimal Inventory Allocation for Clinical Trial Supply Chains, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 98, 161-184.
• Zheng, M. M., H. Zhou, P. Jian, E. S. Pan, S. T. Zhao and K. Wu, 2021, Supplier Selection Problem for Multiple Projects with Uncertain Demand and Project Life Cycles, Computers and Operations Research, 132, 1-17.
• Wu, K. and Y. Shen, 2021, A Unified View on Planning, Scheduling and Dispatching for a Factory, Advanced Engineering Informatics, 46.
• Wu, K. and Y. Shen, 2021, Pathwise Stability of Multiclass Queueing Networks, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 31, 5-23.
• Wu, K., Y. Shen and M. M. Zheng, 2020, A Generalization of the Theory of Constraints: Choosing the Optimal Improvement Option with Consideration of Variability and Costs, IIE Transactions, 52(3), 256-287.
• Zheng, M. M., S. Gavirneni, Y. Shu and K. Wu, 2019, Reactive Production with Preprocessing Restriction in Supply Chains with Forecast Updates, IIE Transactions, 51(12), 1402-1436.
• Khakifirooz, M., M. Fathi and K. Wu, 2019, Development of Smart Semiconductor Manufacturing: Operations Research and Data Science Perspectives, IEEE Access, 7(1), 108419-108430.
• Zhao, S. T., K. Wu, X. M. Yuan and M. M. Zheng, 2019, A SCOR-Based Analytical Coordination Model for an Integrated Supply Chain, IJIE, 26(4), 525-554.
• Zheng, M. M., K. Wu, C. Sun, and E. Pan, 2019, Optimal Decisions for a Two-Echelon Supply Chain with Capacity and Demand Information, Advanced Engineering Informatics, 39, 248-258.
• Zhao, H., E. Huang, R. L. Dou and K. Wu, 2019, A Multi-Objective Production Planning Problem with the Consideration of Time and Cost in Clinical Trials, Expert Systems with Applications, 124, 25-38.
• Wang, M., S. Srivathsan, E. Huang and K. Wu, 2018, Job Dispatch Control for Production Lines with Overlapped Time Window Constraints, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, 31(2), 206-214.
• Shen Y. and K. Wu, 2018, Stability of a GI/G/1 Queue: a Survey, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 35(3), 1850015 1-15.
• Zhao, H., K. Wu, and E. Huang, 2018, Clinical Trial Supply Chain Design Based on the Pareto-Optimal Tradeoff between Time and Cost, IIE Transactions, 50(6), 512-524.
• Wu, K., N. Zhao and Y. Shen, 2018, Analysis and Approximation for the Performance of a Workstation with Various Types of Setups, International Journal of Production Research, 56(7), 2569-2610.
• Wu, K., S. Srivathsan and Y. Shen, 2018, Three Moment Approximation for the Mean Queue Time of a G/G/1 Queue, IIE Transactions, 50(2), 63-73.
• Wu, K., Y. Shen and N. Zhao, 2017, Analysis of Tandem Queues with Finite Buffer Capacity, IIE Transactions, 49(11), 1001-1013.
• Zhou, Y., K. Wu, Z. Meng and M. Tian, 2017, Fault detection of aircraft based on support vector domain description, Computers & Electrical Engineering, 61, 80-94.
• Huang, E. and K. Wu, 2017, Job Scheduling at Cascading Machines, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 14(4), 1634-1642.