Chen, Youhua, Frank (陳友華)

	Associate Professor BE (Mech. Eng, Qinghua (Tsinghua) ) MA (Economics, Waterloo) PhD (Management, Toronto)
	Office:	Room 507, William M.W. Mong Engineering Building
	Phone:	(852) 2609-8310
	Fax:	(852) 2603-5505
	E-mail:	yhchen@se.cuhk.edu.hk
	Homepage:	http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~yhchen

Frank Chen holds a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering, master degree in Economics, and doctoral degree in Management from Tsinghua (Qinghua) University, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto, respectively. After finishing his PhD, Dr. Chen spent about one year at Northwestern University as a post-doctoral researcher.

In 1997, he joined National University of Singapore where he taught in the Faculty of Business Administration. Courses which Prof. Chen taught in NUS include Operations Management and Supply Chain Management, at both undergraduate and MBA levels. He was also actively involved in executive teaching (EDP and EMBA). Currently, Prof. Chen teaches Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and helps the dept in administrating the Executive Master of Science Program (EMSc) in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, a joint program with Tsinghua University (Shenzhen). Prof. Chen has also been involved in consulting projects in the area of supply chain management and logistics.

Dr. Chen's current research program is focused in the area of supply chain inventory management in general and various inventory and production models in particular. He is also interested in inventory models with risk hedging, and revenue management for e-commerce. He has published in journals such as Naval Research Logistics, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, IIE Transactions, and Production and Operations Management. His research has been supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council.

Currently, he serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and the International Journal of Inventory Research, and was a special issue editor for the International Journal of Production Economics.

Research Interests

  Impacts of RFID on supply chain management
  Inventory models with financial hedging
  Revenue management for e-commerce
  Weather risk hedging and operational decisions

Selected Publications

Chen, Y., J. Chen, and Y. Xiao: "Optimal Control of Selling Channels for an Online Retailer with Cost-per-Click Payments and Seasonal Products."Forthcoming, Production and Operations Management (POM)，16，2007

Chen, F. Y. and M. Parlar: "Value of a Put Option to the Risk-Averse Newsvendor." Forthcoming, IIE Transactions，39，2007

Chen, Y., S. Ray, and Y. Song: "Joint Pricing and Inventory Control in Periodic Review Systems - Case of Loss Sales". Naval Research Logistics, 53, 2006.

Chen, Y. and Y. Feng: "Optimization of Stochastic, Single-Item Inventory Models with Non-Quasiconvex Costs." Probability in the Engineering and Information Sciences, 20, 287-306, 2006.

Chao, X.L., and Frank Y. Chen. "Optimal Production and Shutdown Strategy when Supplier Offers Incentives." Manufacturing & Service Oper. Management. 7, 130-143, 2005.

Chen, Y. F. "Fractional Programming Approach to Two Stochastic Inventory Problems." European J. of Oper. Res, 160, 63-71, 2005.

Chen, Y., Y. Feng, and J. Ou. "Management of Inventory Replenishment and Available Offerings for Goods Sold with Optional Value-Added Packages." IIE Transactions, 37 (5), 397-406, 2005.

Chen, Y., T. Wang, and T. Z. Xu: "On Two Models for Integrated Inventory Replenishment and Temporal Shipment Consolidation." Annals of Operations Research., 135, 197-210, 2005.

Wang T., Chen, Y. and Y. Feng: "On the Time-Window Fulfillment Rates in a Single Item, Min-Max Inventory System." IIE Transactions, 37 (7), 667-680, 2005.

Chen, Y. F., H. Yan, and L. Yao: "Newsvendor Pricing Game." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part A. July, 450-456, 2004.

Chen, Y. F., Y. Feng and D. Simchi-Levi. "Uniform Distribution of Inventory Positions in Two Level Systems with Interdependent Demands and Batch Ordering Policies" European J. of Oper. Res., 140 (3), 648-654, 2002.

Chen, Y. F., Mark Goh, Jacob Lee, Jihong Ou, M. Sharafali, C.P. Teo, P. G. Goh and P. Sivanthan. "ST Logistics: Distributing Consumer Goods in China." J. of IFOR, 8, 203-220, 2001.

Chen Y. F., J.K.Ryan, and D. Simchi-Levi. "The Impact of Exponential Smoothing Forecasts on the Bullwhip Effect." Naval Research Logistics, 3, 269-286, 2000.

Chen Y. F., Drezner, J.K.Ryan, and D. Simchi-Levi. "Quantifying the Bullwhip Effect in a Simple Supply Chain: The Impact of Forecasting, Leadtimes and Information." Management Sciences, 3, 269-286, March, 2000.