Faculty Profile
Dr. Chen received his PhD degree
in Operations Research from
Princeton University in 1997.
Dr. Chen
taught for 4 years as an assistant
professor at University of
Pennsylvania prior to his current
appointment at the Smith School. His
research interests cover supply
chain scheduling and coordination,
routing/scheduling of logistics
operations, and capacity and
technology planning. He has
published over 30 journal articles
in these areas. Dr. Chen is
currently conducting a NSF funded
research project on integrated
production and distribution
operations, and working closely with
industry on various projects in the
areas of supply chain optimization
and pricing. He is currently serving
as an associate editor of IIE
Transactions on Scheduling and
Logistics, a flagship journal of
Institute of Industrial Engineers.
Dr. Chen has taught a number of
undergraduate and graduate courses
on optimization, logistics,
scheduling, supply chain management,
and operations management. He
received excellent teaching
evaluations for most of the courses
he has taught at the Smith School.
