2007 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award in Supply Chain Optimization

 

Sponsored by the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida

Supply Chain And Logistics Engineering (SCALE) Center

 

 

Award Summary

The Supply Chain and Logistics Engineering (SCALE) Center at the University of Florida is pleased to announce the 2006 doctoral dissertation proposal award competition winner and finalists in the area of Supply Chain Optimization.  The purpose of this competition is to promote leading edge research in the application of optimization techniques in the areas of supply chain and logistics management, and to create a forum for the timely dissemination of innovative research to industry and academia through the SCALE Center’s annual Supply Chain Optimization Conference and online technical report series. 

 

2007 Finalists

The 2007 dissertation proposal award winner was announced at the Sixth Annual SCALE Conference, February 16-17, 2007, in Gainesville, Florida.

 

First Prize:

  • Pierre-Yves Brunet, IOE Department, University of Michigan, “Signaling Value of Trade Credit”; Advisor: Volodymyr Babich.

 

Additional Finalists:

  • Weiping Chen, ISE Department, Virginia Tech, “Flexible Capacity, Responsive Pricing, and Consumer Choice under Demand Uncertainty”; Advisor: Ebru Bish.
  • Selda Taskin, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Auburn University, “Supply Chain Planning for Hurricane Response with Bayesian Information Updates”; Advisor: Emmett J. Lodree, Jr.
  • Zhixin Liu, Department of Management Sciences, The Ohio State University, “Capacity Allocation and Scheduling in Supply Chains”; Advisor: Nicholas G. Hall.

 

 

Pierre-Yves Brunet, Zhixin Liu, Selda Taskin, Weiping Chen, Joseph Geunes