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Featured Research
Enhancing Customer-Supplier Relationship Through Customer-Managed Inventory
Cost Optimization in Cloud Computing: Capacity Reservation for Intermittent Random Demand Surges
Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Auto-Delivery
Cloud Computing Value Chains: Research from the Operations Management Perspective
Discount Schemes for the Preemptible Service of a Cloud Platform with Unutilized Capacity
Pricing Schemes in Cloud Computing: Reservation-Based versus Utilization-Based
Impact of Supply Chain Transparency on Sustainability under NGO Scrutiny
Inventory Control and Delivery Time Quotation for Assembly Supply Chains
Incentive Alignment and Coordination for Project Supply Chains
Supply Chain Coordination with Multiple Shipment: Optimal Inventory Subsidizing Contracts
Shi Chen
- Associate Professor of Operations Management Marion B. Ingersoll Professor
Education
- PhD Stanford University (2013)
- MS Tsinghua University (2008)
- Diplome d'Ingenieur Ecole Centrale Paris (2007)
- BE Tsinghua University (2006)
Academic Expertise
- operations management
- operations research
- supply chain management
Current Research
- Operations management, stochastic inventory models, responsible and environmentally sustainable supply chains, renewable energy procurement and contracting, Battery-as-a-Service Model for Electric Vehicles, operations management in the cloud computing industry.
Positions Held
- At the University of Washington since 2013
Working Papers
- “When to Broadcast? Inventory Disclosure Policies for Online Sales of Limited Inventory,” with Zibo Liu, Kamran Moinzadeh, and Yong Tan. Under Review. Preview available at SSRN (https://ssrn.com/abstract=3587816)
- “Coordination under Unknown Demand Distribution: Online Learning for Two-Echelon Supply Chains,” with Haipeng Luo, Yingfei Wang, and Mengxiao Zhang. Under Review. Preview available at SSRN (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4456201)
- “Collective Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for Renewable Energies – Negotiation and Risk Sharing Mechanisms,” with Xiaoxuan Hou. Under Review. Preview available at SSRN (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4903084)
- “Alliance Formations with Joint Innovation Efforts in Environmentally Sustainable Technology,” with Junlin Chen, Yujie Xie, and Jinting Wang. Under Review.
- “Who Directs the Control Tower? Customer versus Supplier-Managed Inventory,” with Morris A. Cohen and Hau Lee. Work in progress.
- “Supply Chain Profitability and Resilience under Diffusion of Disruption Risks”, with Junfei Lei and Kamran Moinzadeh. Work in progress.
- “Cost Optimization for the Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) Model of Electric Vehicles: Inventory Management for Battery-Swapping Station Network,” with Kamran Moinzadeh. Work in progress.
- “The Value of Negative Self-Disclosure in Supply Chain Social Responsibility,” with Yang Tong and Tao Lu. Work in Progress.
Honors and Awards
- 2020 - present: Marion B. Ingersoll Professorship, Foster School of Business
- 2020: Dean's Award for Research of the Year, Foster School of Business
- 2018: Meritorious Service Award, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society
- 2017: Meritorious Service Award, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society
Academic Service
- 2024 - present: Associate Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM)
- 2020 - present: Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management (POM)
- 2023 - 2024: Secretary and Treasurer, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society