Dr. Shuming Wang is a Professor of Management Science at the School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He received PhD from Waseda University, Japan, in 2011, and joined UCAS in 2016. He also worked at China Galaxy Securities Co., Ltd. and National University of Singapore during 2011-2015. 

His research interests include robust optimization, stochastic programming, and data-driven analytics, with applications in location science and transportation, supply chain management, financial risk management, and healthcare operations. He has published more than 30 papers including those in Production and Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, Naval Research Logistics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IISE Transactions.  He serves as an Area Editor at Computers & Operations Research (CAOR), an Associate Editor at Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ), and an Associate Editor at Journal of System Sciences and Complexity (JSSC).


Research Areas

  • OR/Optimization/Applied Statistics

  • Stochastic Robust Optimization/Statistical Learning/Model Uncertainty

  • APPLICATIONS in Data Aanalytics/Supply-Chain Resilience/Financial Risk Management/Healthcare OM

Teaching

  • Operations Research (Graduate CORE module)

  • Stochastic Modeling (Graduate CORE module)

  • Decision and Optimization under Uncertainty (Graduate Elective module)

Publications

  1. S. Wang*, J. Li, M. Ang, T.-S. Ng, Appointment scheduling with delay-tolerance heterogeneity, INFORMS Journal on Computing, to appear, 2024. 
  2. F. Liu, Z. Chen, S. Wang*Globalized distributionally robust counterpart, INFORMS Journal on Computing, to appear, 2023. 
  3. J. Li, Y.Z. Huang, Y.F. Li, S. Wang*, Redundancy allocation under state-dependent distributional uncertainty of component lifetimes, Production and Operations Management, 1-21, https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13906, 2022. 
  4. T.Q. Liu, F. Saldanha-da-Gama, S. Wang*, Y.C. Mao, Robust stochastic facility location, INFORMS Journal on Computing,  vol.34, no.5, 2383-2865(C2), 2022.
  5. J. Xiong, S. Wang*, T.-S. Ng, Robust bilevel resource recovery planning, Production and Operations Management, vol.30, no.9, 2962-2992, 2021.
  6. C. Zheng, S. Wang*, N. Li, Y. Wu, Stochastic joint homecare service and capacity planning with nested decomposition approaches, European Journal of Operational Research, vol.295, no.1, 203-222, 2021.
  7. S. Wang, Z. Chen, T.-Q. Liu, Distributionally robust hub location, Transportation Science, vol.54, no.5, 1189-1210, 2020.
  8. S. Wang, Y.-F. Li, T. Jia, Distributionally robust design for redundancy allocation, INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol.32, no.3, 620-640, 2020.
  9. S. Wang, T.-S. Ng, Robustness of resource recovery systems under feedstock uncertainty, Production and Operations Management, vol.28, no.3, pp.497-758, 2019.

Research Grants

  1. Data-driven Distributionally Robust Inventory Optimization (NSFC-General, No.72171221) :: PI :: 500,000 RMB (Jan 2022- Dec. 2025)

  2. Modeling and Optimization for Decision Making under Complex Uncertainty (NSFC-Excellent Young Scholars, No.71922020) :: PI :: 1,200,000 RMB (Jan 2020- Dec. 2022)

  3. Data-Driven Distributional Robust Optimization Approach for WtE Systems Planning (NSFC-Young Scholars, No.71601177) :: PI :: 210,000 RMB (Jan 2017- Dec. 2019)

Postdoc Recruitment

  • The team is now recruiting 1-2 postdoc fellows for the projects on OR and Statistical Learning

  • The candidates should be of backgrounds in mathematics, OR, statistics, CS or related areas, and any publication history in prestigious OR/MS journals is preferred.

  • A competitive salary will be provided for the qualified applicants.  

  • You may drop me (wangshuming@ucas.edu.cn) an email with CV for the application.