Mike Mingcheng Wei

Operations and Manufacturing Management

Ph.D. Operations and Manufacturing Management 2014 (expected), Washington University in St. Louis
M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research 2009, The Pennsylvanian State University
B.B.A. Management 2005, Fudan University

Research interests:

Game Theoretic Operations Models; Dynamic Programming; Supply Chain Contracting; Interface of Finance and Operation Management

Papers:

"Profit-Seeking vs. Survival-Seeking: An Analytical Study of Supplier's Behavior and Buyer's Subsidy Strategy," POM (submitted), B. Jiang and T. Yao, 2009

"Congestion Derivatives in Bottleneck Model," TRB (submitted), T. Friesz, T. Yao and Y. Yin, 2009

Academic/professional activities:

"Financial Derivatives for Strategic Consumers", Presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2009 (San Diego, CA)
Member, INFORMS
Member, MSOM
"Profit-Seeking vs. Survival-Seeking: An Analytical Study of Supplier's Behavior and Buyer's Subsidy Strategy", Presented at MSOM Annual Meeting, 2009 (MIT)
"Suppliers Competition and Pricing in Emerging Markets", Presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2008 (Washington, DC)

Awards/honors:

Doctoral Fellowship, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, 2009 - Present
Research Assistantship, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, The Pennsylvanian State University, 2007-2009
The Best Empirical Research Award, Fudan University, 2003
RenMin Undergraduate Scholarship, Fudan University, 2001-2005

Personal interests:

Reading; Music; Hiking