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Xiaofang Wang

Newell Simon Hall 1502G
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone: 412-268-5900
E-mail: xiaofanw (at) andrew (dot) cmu (dot) edu

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Xiaofang is currently a Ph.D. candidate in a joint Ph.D. program of the Operations Management group in the Tepper School of Business with the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Xiaofang obtained her master degree from the same program at Carnegie Mellon University. She is expecting to receive her Ph.D. degree in May 2008.

Prior to pursuing studies at CMU, Xiaofang obtained her master and bachelor degrees in systems engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

Her current research focuses on service operations with customer behavior, diagnostic service design and health care technology adoption. She is also interested in studying project management and scheduling by integrating the perspectives and methodologies of both operations research and artificial intelligence.

CV
Research
Teaching
Doctoral Coursework
Something I Believe In

Research

Research Interests:
- Application Areas: Service Management, Health Care, Project Management and Scheduling, Supply Chain Management.
- Methodological Areas: Stochastic Modeling, Game Theory, Artificial Intelligence.
Dissertation Work:
- Essays on the Interface of Health Care and Operations Management: Human Judgement, Quality and Technology
- Committee: Stephen Smith, Co-Chair (Robotics), Alan Scheller-Wolf, Co-Chair (Tepper)
  Laurens Debo (Tepper), Martin Gaynor (Heinz School of Public Policy)
Papers Under Review:
- Xiaofang Wang, Laurens Debo, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Stephen Smith.
  Design and Analysis of Diagnostic Service Centers. Under revision for second round review at Management Science.
Referred Publications:
- Xiaofang Wang, Stephen Smith. Retaining Flexibility to Maximize Quality: When the Scheduler Has the Right to Decide Activity Durations, in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 05), Monterey, CA, June, 2005.
- Nicola Policella, Xiaofang Wang, Stephen Smith and Angelo Oddi, Exploiting Temporal Flexibility to Obtain High Quality Schedules, in Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA, July, 2005. .
- Xiaofang Wang, Jiaben Yang, Adaptive Agent Modeling in Manufacturing Systems, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Dublin, Ireland, July, 2001.
- Xiaofang Wang, Jiaben Yang, Self-Adaptive Agent Model for Task Allocation in Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems (in Chinese), v7, n8, 2001:17-20.
Papers in Progress:
- Xiaofang Wang and Alan Scheller-Wolf. Visits on Schedule or Visits on Demand: Impact of Technology Adoption on Chronic Care.
- Xiaofang Wang and Stephen Smith. Value of Flexibility in Generating High-Quality Project Schedules.
- Xiaofang Wang and Alan Scheller-Wolf. Revenue Management of Discretionary Service in the Presence of Strategic Customers.

Teaching

Teaching Interests:
- Production and Operations Management
- Service Operations Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Project Management
- Total Quality Management
- Probability and Statistics
Teaching Experience
- Instructor with full responsibilities for an undergraduate core course Production I (70371): Instructor Rating 4.67 (over 5.00); Syllabus.
  My task includes designing and giving lectures, conducting office hours, designing assignments and exams, grading.
- MBA Student Supervisor for an MBA project course A production Management Project (45837):
  Supervising MBA students to work together with Amazon.com to create optimization models for Amazon's logistic supply chain.
  
  My task includes answering questions, pointing students to related Operations Management literature, helping organizing all the group meetings and meetings with Amazon.com.
- Teaching Assistant for MBA courses: Decision Making and Optimization (45-760)(MBA/core), Production and Operations Management (45-765)(MBA/core), Quality Design and Analysis (45-938) (MBA/elective).
  My task includes conducting office hours and grading.

Doctoral Coursework

Operations	Graph Theory Network and Matching Linear Programming Integer Programming Nonlinear Optimization Dynamic Programming OM Seminar I: Revenue Management OM Seminar II: Global Supply Chain and Technology Management OM Seminar III: Stochastic Processes OM Seminar IV: Supply Chain Management OM Seminar IIV: Simulation Design and Analysis(audit)
Economics	Econometrics
	Intermediate Microeconomic analysis(audit)
	Seminar in game theory
Computer Science	Artificial Intelligence Theory and Performance Modeling I Theory and Performance Modeling II
Communications	Communication Skills Language and Culture for Teaching

Something I Believe In

"If you are afraid to try something until you are perfect certain that everything's going to work about it, then by the time you do it, somebody else will have done it as well, so if you are going to be an innovator, you have to be willing to take some risk."

-Kenneth Dunn

"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Madame Curie

"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation."

- Bernard M. Baruch

Last updated: 01/20/2008