July 2, 2021
Spring 2021 Newsletter
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Faculty News
Elina Hwang presented the paper, “The Value of Online-Offline Return Partnership to Offline Retailers,” (coauthored by Leela Nageswaran and Soo-Haeng Cho) at the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business in March 2021 and the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University in April 2021. Elina also presented the paper, “Healthcare through Teleconsultations: Implications for Offline Healthcare Disparity,” (coauthored by Xitong Guo, Yong Tan, and Yuanyuan Dang) at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in April 2021.
Leela Nageswaran gave an invited talk at the Zicklin School of Business, The City University of New York (CUNY).
Faculty Awards
Our faculty received many accolades at the various Foster end-of-year awards ceremonies. Congratulations to everyone!
Ming Fan received the Dean’s Excellence Award for Faculty Research and the MSIS Excellence in Teaching Award.
Mark Hillier received the Charles E. Summer Memorial Teaching Award and the PACCAR Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Foster blog has a lovely write up about winning his third PACCAR Award and his teaching mindset here.
Apurva Jain and Hamed Mamani both received the MSCM Excellence in Teaching Award.
Tayfun Keskin received the Undergraduate Faculty of the Year Award.
Shaosong Ou received the Lex N. Gamble Family Award for Excellence in Case Development and Curriculum Innovation, the GEMBA Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Undergraduate Program Department Faculty of the Year.
Yong Tan received the PhD Mentor Award.
Michael Wagner received the MSBA Excellence in Teaching Award.
Professor emeritus Andy Siegel‘s paper, “Geometry of Unconditionally Efficient Portfolios Formed with Conditioning Information: The Efficient Semicircle,” has been published in Quantitative Finance, Volume 21, Issue 6, pg. 881-889, 2021.
Elina Hwang and Leela Nageswaran‘s paper, “The Value of Online-Offline Return Partnership to Offline Retailers” (coauthored with Soo-Haeng Cho) is forthcoming in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM). A copy of the paper can be found here.
Virtual conferences and workshops continued to be the popular choice, with our faculty attending and presenting at a few. Kamran Moinzadeh and Leela Nageswaran attended POMS, held online from April 30 – May 5, where Kamran gave a short speech to honor Hau Lee, a world-leading scholar in operations management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Leela presented her joint work with Elina Hwang and Soo-Haeng Cho. Kamran, Leela, and Elina Hwang attended MSOM in June, where Elina and Leela presented their joint work with Soo-Haeng Cho. Other conferences that Kamran attended include the Sixth Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW) 2021 in May, and the Executive Workshop: Value Chains in a Post-COVID World in June, hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of Business Value Chain Innovation Initiative.
Our students were recognized for their excellence in the classroom and their research at the school and department levels: Junfei Lei received the Dean’s Achievement Award and the ISOM Department Doctoral Award for Outstanding Research; Yifan Yu also received the Dean’s Achievement Award and the ISOM Department Doctoral Award for Outstanding Teaching; Xiyuan Ge also received the ISOM Department Doctoral Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Foster PHD Teaching Award; and Zhen Fang received the ISOM Department Doctoral Award for Outstanding Research. Congratulations to the four of them!
Our senior students – Emisa Nategh, Kyungmin ‘Jamie’ Park, Tongxin Zhou, and Zhijin Zhou – have successfully defended and are now headed on new adventures. Tongxin has accepted an offer to join Arizona State University as an assistant professor, Emisa will join Georgetown University as an assistant teaching professor, and Zhijin will go into industry as a Data Scientist at Amazon. We wish them all the best!
Spring 2021
On Friday, June 4th, the MSIS community formally gathered at the MSIS End of Year Celebration & Toast to recognize the achievements of the MSIS Class of 2021. Kim Kamla, Portfolio Director for Enterprise Applications at Avanade, gave an insightful keynote about having passion for technology and the business outcomes that technology can drive. Kim is an alum of the MSIS Class of 2013 who exemplifies the distinguished success of an MSIS graduate. She remains actively involved in the community as a member of the MSIS Advisory Board, integral involvement in the Women in Tech Series, and more.
During the celebration we awarded academic honors to the top 10% of the class and announced the Excellence in Teaching Award as voted on by the students. This year’s award recipient is Ming Fan!
After the celebration the MSIS students, faculty, staff, and Advisory Board continued the celebration via a virtual networking reception. Thank you to all members of the community who came to celebrate our Class of 2021.
Congratulations MSCM Class of 2021!
On June 9, the Master of Supply Chain Management program graduated its fifth cohort at a virtual ceremony. We were honored to celebrate their accomplishments during a unique and challenging year, and welcome them to the alumni community! The graduating class selected Apurva Jain and Hamed Mamani to receive this year’s Excellence in Teaching Awards. Professor Jain teaches Operations Management and the Supply Chain Practicum courses in the program – a hallmark of the MSCM experience. Professor Mamani also teaches two courses in the program – data analytics and global supply chain management. Congratulations!
The MSCM Program would also like to thank this year’s practicum project sponsors. We value our new and continued partnerships with local organizations who provide hands-on experience for students. Thank you Carrix SSA Marine, Continental Mills, Fluke Biomedical, Sound Transit, and UW Valley Medical Center!
April 2, 2021
Balaji Padmanabhan
University of South Florida
Information Systems
Talk title: Learning Individual Preferences from Aggregate Data: A Genetic Algorithm for Discovering Baskets of Television Shows with Affinities to Political and Social Interests
April 9, 2021
Zaiyan Wei
Purdue University
Information Systems
Talk title: Regulating Professional Players in Peer-to-Peer Markets: Evidence from Airbnb
April 16, 2021
Yiming Zhang
University of Washington (ISOM PhD)
Operations Management
Talk title: Delay Information in Virtual Queues: A Large-Scale Field Experiment on a Ride-Sharing Platform
April 23, 2021
Dongyuan Zhan
University College London
Operations Management
Talk title: Modeling and Control of Queuing Systems with Deceiving Customers
May 7, 2021
Dokyun (DK) Lee
Carnegie Mellon University
Information Systems
Talk title: InnoVAE: Using Generative AI to Identify Breakthrough Innovation
May 14, 2021
Vinayak Deshpande
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Operations Management
Talk title: Logistics Performance, Ratings, and its Impact on Customer Purchasing Behavior and Sales in E-Commerce Platforms
May 28, 2021
Elina Hwang
University of Washington
Information Systems
Talk title: Value of Online-Offline Return Partnership to Offline Retailers
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