Xiaole (Sherri) Wu

Operations and Manufacturing Management

Ph.D. Operations & Supply Chain Management 2011 (expected), Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School
B.S. Industrial Engineering 2006, Tsinghua University, China

Research interests:

Risk Management for Supply Chains
Supply Chain Coordination
Game Theory, Sourcing Problems
Energy and Environment

Papers:

"The Value of Operational Flexibility in Uncertain Supply and Demand Environment with Oil Refinery Applications," L. Dong and P. Kouvelis, under revision

"Capacity Expansion and Contract Design for Horizontal Capacity Coordination under Demand Uncertainty with Semiconductor Industry Applications," with P. Kouvelis and H. Matsuo, working paper

"An Outsourcing Game with Demand Information Updating," with F. Zhang, working paper

"Coordinating Capacity Network in the Semiconductor Manufacturing," with H. Sano, P. Kouvelis, and H. Matsuo, working paper

"Fair-minded Supplier Selling to the Newsvendor: an Alternative Utility Function," with J. Niederhoff, working paper

Academic/professional activities:

Presenter, POMS Conference, Vancouver, 2010
Presenter, INFORMS Meeting, San Diego, 2009
Session Chair, POMS Conference, Vancouver, 2010

Awards/honors:

National Scholarship, Tsinghua University, November 2005
Social Work Award, Tsinghua University, November 2004
Excellent Undergraduate Student, Tsinghua University, July 2006
POMS Doctoral Consortium, 2010
Moog Scholar -Washington University in St. Louis, 2009-2010
Doctoral Fellowship - Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School, 2006 - Present
First Prize, National Mathematical Olympiad, China, 2002

Personal interests:

Chinese calligraphy art, Pingpong, Badminton, Playing the piano, Karaoke