December 9, 2015
Autumn 2015 e-Newsletter
DEPARTMENT NEWS | FACULTY NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCES
SEMINAR SERIES | DOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAM
MSCM PROGRAM | STUDENT CLUBS | VISITING GUESTS
DEPARTMENT NEWS
A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR: Kamran MoinzadehAs we wrap up the last days of 2015, I’d like to summarize some of the news and accomplishments that we all achieved together at ISOM. To begin, on the recruiting front, we successfully recruited two excellent colleagues, Elina Hwang and Masha Shunko who both joined us in Fall. We also promoted Hamed Mamani to Associate Professor with tenure. On the program side, MS in Information Systems (MSIS), has been doing great! Over 400 applicants applied for admissions to the program and only a select 33 students were admitted, joining the program in summer quarter 2015. Our newest program, MS in Supply Chain Management (MSCM) program, approved in January of 2015, is preparing for its first cohort in Summer 2016. Our UG concentrations in IS and OM are very popular among the students with enrollments of 271 and 135 students, respectively. On the teaching side, ISOM faculty won many major teaching awards, including the prestigious Bowen Award, Dean’s Graduate Teaching Award, GEMBA Excellence in Teaching, MBA Professor of the Quarter, TMMBA Professor of the Quarter, Undergraduate Teaching Professor of the Quarter, and Undergraduate Faculty of the Year. On the research front, we had a very productive year with 15 top-tier publications. Our faculty are now on the editorial boards of ISR, OR, MS, JMIS and POM, all major journals (A journals) in the IS and OM area. Furthermore, Yong Tan was named the prestigious Chang Jiang Scholar by the Chinese Ministry of Education and Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Foundation, another testimony to his scholarly and impactful research in the Information Systems area. Our Ph.D. recruitment went very well in 2015 as we had 5 students join ISOM. There are many more accomplishments, but I think these will give all of us a good idea about our impact at Foster and in our professional communities. |
FACULTY NEWS
| HAMED MAMANI |
Prof. Mamani has been awarded the inaugural Premera Faculty Professorship, which provides strategic support in areas that advance efforts to enhance access, affordability and quality of healthcare through identification and application of best business practices.
Prof. Mamani has also been nominated for the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award. |
| MICHAEL WAGNER |
Prof. Wagner was awarded the Neal and Jan Dempsey Fellowship. |
| YONG-PIN ZHOU | Prof. Zhou was amongst those recognized by the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management journal as a 2014 Meritorious Service Award recipient for his outstanding editorial service. |
PUBLICATIONS
| FACULTY PUBLICATIONS |
| APURVA JAIN, KAMRAN MOINZADEH, and ISOM PhD Alum A. ‘Mee’ Dumrongsiri. (Spring 2015). Priority Allocation in a Rental Model with Decreasing Demand. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Volume 17(2), 236-248. |
| FOAD IRAVANI, HAMED MAMANI, and R. Zhmadi. (May 2015) Coping with Gray Markets: The Impact of Market Conditions and Product Characteristics. Production and Operations Management, Volume 24(5), 762-777. |
| ELINA HWANG, P. Singh (PhD alum), and L. Argote. (October 2015). Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities: Learning to Cross Geographic and Hierarchical Boundaries. Organization Science, Volume 26(6), 1593-1611. |
| FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS |
| HAMED MAMANI, SHIMA NASSIRI (PhD), and MICHAEL WAGNER. Closed-Form Solutions for Robust Inventory Management via the Central Limit Theorem. Management Science. |
| HAMED MAMANI, SHIMA NASSIRI (PhD), and E. Adida. Bundle Payments vs. Fee-for-Service: Impact of Payment Scheme on Performance. Management Science. |
CONFERENCES | INVITED TALKS | RESEARCH
| INFORMS Philadelphia, PA | November 1 – 4, 2015 |
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| SHI CHEN | Presented his paper entitled “Impact of Supply Chain Transparency on Sustainability under NGO Scrutiny,” co-authored by Yong-Pin Zhou and Q. Zhang. |
| TED KLASTORIN | Presented his work entitled “Modern Project Management Curriculum.” Prof. Klastorin also served as the Project Management I session chair. |
| MASHA SHUNKO | Presented her paper entitled “Humans are Not Machines: How Server Behavior Affects Queueing Systems,” co-authored by J. Niederhoff and Y. Rosokha. Prof. Shunko also served as the Service Operations session chair. |
| YONG TAN | Prof. Tan co-authored eleven papers that were presented at this years conference. |
| YONG-PIN ZHOU | Presented his paper entitled “Social Loafing and Queue Driven Speedup: Evidence From a Supermarket,” co-authored by J. Wang. |
| I-FU ‘Tony’ CHEN (PhD) | Presented his paper entitled “On Coordinating Contracts in Decentralized Stochastic Projects,” co-authored by Ted Klastorin and Michael Wagner. |
| SHAHRYAR DOOSTI (PhD) | Presented his paper entitled “Concentration of Product Sales in Online Channels: Empirical Study on Long Tail Effect,” co-authored by Yong Tan, and Y. Wang. |
| BEHNAZ GHAHESTANI BOJD (PhD) | Presented two papers:
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| KYUNGSUN ‘Melissa’ RHEE (PhD) | Presented her work entitled “Bundling of Digital Products in Music Industry: An Empirical Study,” co-authored by Yong Tan, and J. Peng. |
| HAOYAN SUN (PhD) | Presented her paper entitled “How Does Communication Improve Conversion Rate on E-Commerce: A Bayesian Approach,” co-authored by Ming Fan. |
| XUE ‘Jane’ TAN (PhD) | Presented three papers:
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| JINYANG ZHENG (PhD) | Presented two papers:
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| FEI WAN (Visit Student) | Presented her paper entitled, “Impact of Firm Social Media Engagement on Sales Revenue: Evidence from Taobao,” co-authored by her UW Faculty Sponsor Yong Tan and F. Ren. |
| Professors Ming Fan, Mark Hillier, Foad Iravani, Hamed Mamani, and PhD students Vipul Aggarwal, Mohammad Arbabian, Soraya Fatehi, Elnaz Jalilipour Alishah, Zixuan ‘Maggie’ Meng, Sareh Nabi-Abdolyousefi, and Shima Nassiri, were also in attendance. | |
| INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) Philadelphia, PA | October 31 – November 1, 2015 |
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| ANTINO KIM (PhD) | Presented his paper entitled “Competition in the Information-Goods Supply Chain and the Shadow Competition of Piracy,” co-authored by Deb Dey and Atanu Lahiri. His paper was awarded the Best Student Paper at this year’s conference. |
| XUE ‘Jane’ TAN (PhD) | Presented her paper entitled “Loyalty Program: the Dilemma of Shipping Fee,” co-authored by Yong Tan and ISOM PhD alum Yi-Chun ‘Chad’ Ho. Xue Tan also presented her work at INFORMS. |
| JINYANG ZHENG (PhD) | Presented his paper entitled “Optimizing Two-Sided Promotion for IS Enabled Transportation Network: A Conditional Bayesian Learning Model,” co-authored by Yong Tan and Xi Chen. Jinyang Zheng also presented his work at INFORMS. |
| Professors Ming Fan, Yong Tan, and PhD students Vipul Aggarwal, Shahryar Doosti, Behnaz Ghahestani Bojd, Zixuan ‘Maggie’ Meng, and Kyungsun ‘Melissa’ Rhee attended the conference. | |
| The Foster School of Business graciously showed their support of this year’s conference by becoming a sponsor of this prominent academic event. | |
| INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ICIS) Fort Worth, TX | December 13 – 16, 2015 |
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| JINYANG ZHENG (PhD) | Presented his paper entitled “Optimizing Two-Sided Promotion for IS Enabled Transportation Network: A Conditional Bayesian Learning Model,” co-authored by Yong Tan, F. Ren, and X. Chen. |
| Yong Tan and PhD students Antino Kim and Xue ‘Jane’ Tan were also in attendance. At the doctoral consortium Antino Kim presented his research entitled, “Digital Piracy: A Closer Look into the Information Goods Supply Chain and Different Enforcement Types.” | |
| WORKSHOP on INFORMATION SYSTEMS and ECONOMICS (WISE) Dallas, TX | December 12 – 13, 2015 |
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| ANTINO KIM (PhD) | Presented his paper entitled “Combating Online Piracy: Make Pirated Products Less Available or Less Attractive,” co-authored by Deb Dey and Atanu Lahiri. His paper was the runner-up for Best Paper at this year’s conference. |
| XUE ‘Jane’ TAN (PhD) | Presented her paper entitled “Why Should I Donate? Examining Reputation, Peer Effect and Popularity Effect on Charitable Giving over Social Media Platforms,” co-authored by Yong Tan and Y. Lu. |
| Professors Yong Tan, Ming Fan, Elina Hwang, and Aravinda Garimella (PhD) also attended the conference. | |
| WORKSHOP on INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES and SYSTEMS (WITS) Dallas, TX December 12 – 13, 2015 |
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| YONG TAN, MING FAN, and Aravinda Garimella (PhD) attended the 25th annual workshop, which focuses research that can change the way information technology functions so that it can better solve real-world problems. This year’s theme was: Cloud Computing Management. |
| INVITED TALKS | RESEARCH | |
| KAMRAN MOINZADEH and TED KLASTORIN | Professors Moinzadeh and Klastorin were invited by Amazon to attend the inaugural Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Summit on October 11th and 12th. The event was an opportunity for leaders in Amazon to exchange ideas with faculty from top universities on supply chain optimization. This prestigious invitation helped ISOM to network more opportunities for both our faculty (Fellows, Research Grants, Social Events) and graduate students (job opportunities, internships, PhD Symposium.) |
| SHI CHEN | Professor Chen was invited to give two talks at Tsinghua University, at both the School of Management and the Industrial Engineering Department.
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| DEB DEY | Professor Dey was invited to present a research seminar at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management on December 15, 2015. The title of his talk was “Combating Online Piracy: The ‘Longer Arm’ of Enforcement.” His seminar was well attended by IMM faculty members and students. |
| FOAD IRAVANI | Professor Iravani was invited as a guest speaker at the University of Alberta School of Business on November 13, 2015. His presentation talk was entitled “Supply Chain Coordination in the Presence of Gray Markets and Strategic Consumers.” |
| TED KLASTORIN | Professor Klastorin traveled to Portland, OR to work on research paper projects and on his textbook with his co-author. |
| HAMED MAMANI and SAREH NABI-ABDOYOUSEFI (PhD) | Both attended the Supply Chain Analytics Workshop held at UC, Berkeley on October 15 – 16, 2015. The two-day workshop brought together researchers working in the area of supply chain analytics to exchange state-of-the art knowledge and recent research results in this area. |
SEMINAR SERIES
| September 22, 2015 NAGESH GAVIRNENI Cornell University | Operations Management TITLE: Self-Selecting Priority Queues with Burr Distributed Waiting Costs |
| September 23, 2015 TIM KRAFT University of Virginia | Operations Management TITLE: Buyer and Nonprofit Levers to Improve Suppliers’ Environmental Performance |
| October 9, 2015 YONG-PIN ZHOU University of Washington | Operations Management TITLE: Social Loafing and Queue Driven Speedup: Evidence from a Supermarket |
| October 16, 2015 YUQING REN University of Minnesota | Information Systems TITLE: Understanding Word-of-Mouth and Customer Engagement on Facebook Business Pages |
| October 23, 2015 BURAK KAZAZ Syracuse University | Operations Management TITLE: Wine Analytics: Fine Wine Pricing and Selection under Weather and Market Uncertainty |
| November 13, 2015 HEMANT BHARGAVA UC, Davis | Information Systems TITLE: Simple Pricing for Services and Information Goods |
| November 20, 2015 QIUPING YU Indiana University | Operations Management TITLE: How do Delay Announcements Shape Customer Behavior? An Empirical Study |
| December 4, 2015 FISHER WU University of Washington | Information Systems TITLE: Cardinality Bundles with Complex Costs |
DOCTORAL PROGRAM
| INCOMING PhD STUDENTS |
| VIPUL AGGARWAL AREA: Information Systems EDUCATION: MS, University of Washington, Information Systems (2015) BE, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Computer Science (2012) RESEARCH INTERESTS: E-Commerce Crowdsourcing Social Networks & Media |
| SORAYA FATEHI AREA: Operations Management EDUCATION: MS, University of Arizona, Systems Engineering (2015) BS, University of Tehran, Industrial Engineering (2013) RESEARCH INTERESTS: Crowdsourcing Data Analysis Supply Chain Management |
| DUYI ‘Louisa’ LI AREA: Operations Management EDUCATION: MS, London School of Economics and Political Science, Management Science (2015) BS, University College London, Mathematics (2014) RESEARCH INTERESTS: Project Management Supply Chain Management Inventory Management |
| ZIXUAN ‘Maggie’ MENG AREA: Information Systems EDUCATION: BA, Guanghua School of Management, Business Administration (2015) RESEARCH INTERESTS: Crowdfunding Online Social Networks E-Commerce |
| EMISA NATEGH AREA: Operations Management EDUCATION: MS, University of Rochester, Marketing Analytics (2015) MS, Sharif University of Technology, Applied Mathematics (2012) BS, Sharif University of Technology, Applied Mathematics (2009) RESEARCH INTERESTS: Operations Management Data Science, Analytics, Statistical and Machine Learning Mathematical Modeling and Optimization |
| CONGRATULATIONS ANTINO KIM!
Antino Kim has been hired as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University. |
| STEPHEN BARR attended the 3rd Graph Connect Conference in San Francisco, CA on Oct 21 – 22, 2015. The one day training seminar focuses on the rapidly growing world of graph databases and applications. |
MSIS PROGRAM
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The MSIS Alumni Program officially launched at the annual MSIS Industry Night in late October! MSIS was excited to welcome our alumni back to Foster for an evening of reconnecting and networking with current MSIS students, Industry Mentors and the MSIS Advisory Board members. This new Alumni Network will provide all of our graduates with a lifetime of connections beyond their MSIS cohort. Learn more about the MSIS Alumni Network at their new website. Are you a graduate of MSIS? Be sure to join the alumni-only MSIS LinkedIn page . |
MSCM PROGRAM
The Foster School of Business will debut its new Master of Supply Chain Management Program this June. The MSCM program is a one-year degree for working professionals with a supply-chain focus. Applications for the inaugural class are now being accepted. Learn more about the program at their website.
“…supply chains must continually evolve due to global and industry forces and company-specific strategic decisions…[This program] includes the analytics to make more profitable inventory decision, strategic awareness to make improved sourcing decisions, and leadership and change management to get the broader organization engaged. Any company that has a supply chain to manage would see significant benefits in hiring students that have completed your program.”
Bart Hoeman, Director of Operations, Kenworth Australia, PACCAR
STUDENT CLUBS
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Business Information Technology Society (BITS) |
| The Business Information Technology Society started off the academic year by co-hosting a waterfront networking dinner with Ernst & Young. They also welcomed PwC, BITS alumnae Eric Ing from the Boeing IT rotational, and the Foster MSIS class. The Autumn quarter ended with an engaging visit from Zillow, whose office BITS plans to visit in the upcoming quarter. |
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Operations & Supply Chain Management Club (OSCM) |
| The 3rd Annual Boeing Northwest Business Case Competition was held at Paccar Hall during the Autumn Quarter. University of Washington sent eight teams to compete against teams from Central Washington University, Western Washington University, and Portland State University. The students competed in front of Boeing senior executives for a VIP tour of the Boeing Renton Factory and guaranteed interviews for select positions. Teams are given real-world business scenarios from Boeing’s Defense division and must come up with their best solution in two short weeks. The focus was on supply chain, lean, and finance. The final winning team from UW included: Gurman Tiwana, Kelly Suyama, Hekang Wu, Ipshita Sharma, and Cristal McClure. Prof. Shi Chen attended as the UW faculty representative throughout the competition. |
| The OSCM club had a field trip to Carlisle’s Interconnect facilities in Kent, WA on November 18, 2015 (pictured above.) They spent the day applying kaizen techniques to manufacturing operations. The quarter ended with the club’s highest event attendance to date, impressing the Director of Engineering at UPS and promising stronger relations between UPS and Foster next year! |
VISITING GUESTS
VISITING INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS |
| GUOXIN LI is a professor of Marketing at Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Management. Her research interests are internet marketing and innovation management. Her research has been published in academic journals such as Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Research, Electronic Commerce Research and Application, and Journal of Electronic Commerce and Research. She has received funding for her research form the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Canada’s International Development Research Center (IDRC).
Prof. Guoxin Li visits Foster on a Fullbright Visiting Scholar Program award, and is hosted by Prof. Yong Tan. She is progressing in her Hatha Yoga practice and works with her 9 year old daughter to collect more National park badges. |
| JIAN LIU is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. Prof. Liu’s is doing research work focusing on the fairness in queuing systems with help from his faculty sponsor Prof. Yong-Pin Zhou. Their goal is to finish a first draft by next quarter. |
VISITING INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIP & TRAINING STUDENTS (VISIT) |
| SUYUAN LUO is a VISIT student from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She is a PhD candidate in Information Management and Engineering. Her background is in E-Business and Finances. Under the guidance of Prof. Ming Fan, Suyuan has been learning new research methods that she will implement in her current research projects which use dynamic structural models. Suyuan not only enjoys Seattle for everything it has to offer (culture, entertainment, scenery), but also the nice people at the Foster School of Business. |
| FEI WAN is a fourth-year PhD candidate at the Peking University, Guanghua School of Management. Her research interest area is social media marketing. She has been working with Prof. Yong Tan to improve her research model and conduct empirical tests based on a large sample of Chinese markets. Fei attended and presented at the 2015 CIST and INFORMS conferences. She has found her experience here to be very helpful in completing her working paper. During her time in Seattle Fei has visited local landmarks such as the Space Needle, Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit, Discovery Park, and Mount Rainier. |
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