Education

2008.05   Ph.D. in Operations Management, Tepper school of business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
2001.07   M.Eng. in Systems Engineering, Tsinghua University
1999.07   B.Eng. in Automation, Tsinghua University

Working Experiences

2019-present Professor in Management Science and Engineering, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China

2012-2018      Associate Professor in Management Science and Engineering, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China

2008-2012      Assistant Professor in Management Science and Engineering, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China

Healthcare Management, Strategic Queueing, OM/Marketing

Operations management, Revenue management, Service operations management

Papers

Selected Academic Articles:
1.Xiaofang Wang, Tong Wang and Guoming Lai. Selling to Customers with Both Veblen and Network Effects. Operations Research Letters, 45(1), 25-29, 2016.
2.Xiaofang Wang, Laurens Debo and Alan Scheller-Wolf. Managing Nurse Lines – Practical challenges and the Developing Theory. International Journal of Production Research, 53(24), 7213-7225, 2015.
3.Xisheng Shen and Xiaofang Wang. Improving the Health-care Delivery Process at Hospital Emergency Services by a Better Use of Inpatient Bed Information. Electronic Commerce Research &Applications, 14(1):14-22, 2015
4.Xiaofang Wang, Laurens Debo and Alan Scheller-Wolf. Service Design at Diagnostic Service Centers. Naval Research Logistics. 59(8):613-628, 2012.
5.Xisheng Shen, Xiaofang Wang, Yueting Chai. Dynamic System for Saddle Point Problems in Hilbert Spaces and Its Application in Neural-computing. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2011, 16(3):315-319.
6.Xiaofang Wang, Nicola Policella, Stephen F. Smith, and Angelo Oddi. Constraint-Based Methods for Scheduling Discretionary Services. AI Communications. 24(1): 51-73, 2011.
7.Xiaofang Wang, Jun Zhuang. Balancing Congestion and Security in the Presence of Strategic Applicants with Private Information. European Journal of Operational Research. 212(1):100-111, 2011.
8.Xiaofang Wang, Laurens Debo, Alan Scheller-Wolf and Stephen F. Smith. Design and Analysis of Diagnostic Service Centers. Management Science. 56(11):1873-1890, 2010.

Selected Monographs:

Health Care Triage: Queueing and Games (in Chinese), China Renmin University Press, 2016

Balancing Service Quality & Efficiency in Healthcare and Security System, Intellectual Publishing House, 2011

Selected Research Grants:
2014  Outstanding Young Scholar by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
2013  National Natural Science Foundation of China
Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University by the Ministry of Education of China

Key community services

Member, INFORMS
Member, POMS, POMS-China Chapter
Member, CSAMSE

Honors and Awards

2016  POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Award (Runner-up)
2014  Outstanding Young Scholar by the National Natural Science Foundation of China