RESEARCH INTERESTS

Operations Research with specialization in Integer Programming, Stochastic Programming and Computational Optimization
Transportation and Logistics, Production Planning Under Uncertainty, Energy Policy Analysis and Power Asset Optimization

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering
  Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, GA (2005)
  Advisors: George L. Nemhauser, Shabbir Ahmed and John J. Bartholdi, III

• M.S.in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China (2001)
  Advisors: Raymond Cheung and Chung-Lun Li
  

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (1998)

• B.S. in Economic Decision Science
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (1998)
  

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
  University of Florida, 05/2009-present

• Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering
  University of Oklahoma, 08/2005-05/2009

• Research Assistant, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
  Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001-2005

• Research Assistant, Transportation and Logistics Lab
  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1998-2001

HONORS/AWARDS

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2008
• Member of INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium, Denver, CO, October 2004
• Excellent Student Honor of Shanghai City 1997
• The Top Ten Distinguished Students at SJTU honor 1997
• The First Prize in the National Mathematical Competition of China 1994

RECENT PAPERS

• Y. Guan, S. Ahmed and G. L. Nemhauser. Cutting planes for multi-stage stochastic integer programs. Accepted for publication. Operations Research. (pdf)
• Y. Guan and A. J. Miller. Polynomial time algorithms for stochastic uncapacitated lot-sizing problems. Accepted for publication. Operations Research. (pdf)
• M. Zhang and Y. Guan. Two-Stage Robust Unit Commitment Problem. Submitted for publication. ( pdf)

EDITORIAL BOARD

• Computational Optimization and Applications
• Journal of Global Optimization
  

REFEREE

• Management Science
• Operations Research
• Mathematical Programming
• Transportation Science
• IIE Transactions
• Naval Research Logistics

MEMBERSHIP

• Member, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

• Member, Mathematical Programming Society ( MPS)

• Member, Institute of Industrial Engineers ( IIE)

• Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society