Xiaofang Wang

Education

• 2008.05 Ph.D. in Operations Management, Tepper school of business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
• 2001.07 M.Eng. in Systems Engineering, Tsinghua University
• 1999.07 B.Eng. in Automation, Tsinghua University

Working Experiences

• 2019-present Professor in Management Science and Engineering, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China
• 2012-2018 Associate Professor in Management Science and Engineering, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China
• 2008-2012 Assistant Professor in Management Science and Engineering, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China

Research Interests

Healthcare Management, Strategic Queueing, OM/Marketing

Courses

Operations management, Revenue management, Service operations management

Selected Academic Articles:

1. Xiaofang Wang, Tong Wang and Guoming Lai. Selling to Customers with Both Veblen and Network Effects. Operations Research Letters, 45(1), 25-29, 2016.
2. Xiaofang Wang, Laurens Debo and Alan Scheller-Wolf. Managing Nurse Lines – Practical challenges and the Developing Theory. International Journal of Production Research, 53(24), 7213-7225, 2015.
3. Xisheng Shen and Xiaofang Wang. Improving the Health-care Delivery Process at Hospital Emergency Services by a Better Use of Inpatient Bed Information. Electronic Commerce Research &Applications, 14(1):14-22, 2015
4. Xiaofang Wang, Laurens Debo and Alan Scheller-Wolf. Service Design at Diagnostic Service Centers. Naval Research Logistics. 59(8):613-628, 2012.
5. Xisheng Shen, Xiaofang Wang, Yueting Chai. Dynamic System for Saddle Point Problems in Hilbert Spaces and Its Application in Neural-computing. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2011, 16(3):315-319.
6. Xiaofang Wang, Nicola Policella, Stephen F. Smith, and Angelo Oddi. Constraint-Based Methods for Scheduling Discretionary Services. AI Communications. 24(1): 51-73, 2011.
7. Xiaofang Wang, Jun Zhuang. Balancing Congestion and Security in the Presence of Strategic Applicants with Private Information. European Journal of Operational Research. 212(1):100-111, 2011.
8. Xiaofang Wang, Laurens Debo, Alan Scheller-Wolf and Stephen F. Smith. Design and Analysis of Diagnostic Service Centers. Management Science. 56(11):1873-1890, 2010.

Selected Monographs:

• Health Care Triage: Queueing and Games (in Chinese), China Renmin University Press, 2016
• Balancing Service Quality & Efficiency in Healthcare and Security System, Intellectual Publishing House, 2011

Selected Research Grants:

• 2014 Outstanding Young Scholar by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
• 2013 National Natural Science Foundation of China
  Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University by the Ministry of Education of China

Services & Awards

Key community services

• Member, INFORMS
• Member, POMS, POMS-China Chapter
• Member, CSAMSE

Honors and Awards

• 2016 POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Award (Runner-up)
• 2014 Outstanding Young Scholar by the National Natural Science Foundation of China