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Susan Xu

Professor of Management Science and Supply Chain
Management, Director of PhD Program
Department: Supply Chain
and Information Systems, PhD Program
Office: 478 Business Building

Phone: 814-863-0531
Fax: 814-863-7067
E-mail: [email-masked]
Member of Faculty Since: 1987

Introduction

Dr. Susan H. Xu is Professor of Management Science and Supply Chain
Management at Pennsylvania State University. She currently serves as the
Dirctor of the PhD Program in Smeal College of Business.  She
served as the Chair of the Intercollege Dual-Title Degree Graduate Program
in Operations Research at Penn State from 1998-2007.  She held visiting
positions in several universities including George Mason
University, University of California at Berkeley,  Chinese University of Hong Kong,  The Hong Kong
University of Science & Technology, Georgetown University, University of Maryland, National University of Singapore, and Singapore Institute of
Manufacturing Technology, among others.

Current Research

Dr. Xu’s primary research interests are centered on
design, performance evaluation, simulation and optimization of stochastic
operating systems and their applications in supply chain management and service
systems, telecommunication, information technology, and reliability.  In
particular, she is interested in production and inventory systems, risk
management of supply chain, revenue management, queueing control, stochastic
ordering of multivariate stochastic processes, maintenance policies and risk
analysis in reliability systems.  Her
research is currently supported by NSF grants
CMMI-0825960 and CMMI-1000183 and the Competitive Research Program
in Smeal College of Business.

Expertise

Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing and Service Systems

Production-Inventory Models
Risk Management of Supply Chains

Assemble-to-order systems
Revenue Management
Reliability,
scheduling, queueing control

Publication List

Y. Akcay, H. Natarajan and S.H. Xu, "Joint Dynamic Pricing of Multiple
Perishable Products with Consumer Choice", Management Science,
forthcoming.

J. Li, D. Fong and S.H. Xu, "Managing Trade-In Programs
Based on Product Characteristics and Customer Heterogeneity in
Business-to-Business Markets", Manufacturing& Services Operations
Management, forthcoming.

V.H. Hsu, S. H. Xu and B. Jukic. ,
"Optimal Scheduling and Incentive-Compatible Pricing for a Service System with
Quality of Service Guarantees", Manufacturing& Services Operations
Management, Summer 2009, 11, 375-396.

S. H. Xu, L. Gao and J.H. Ou,
"Service Performance and Improvement of a Ticket Queue with Balking Customers ",
Management Science, Summer 2007, 53, 971-990.

S.H. Xu and
Z.L.Li, "Managing a single-product assemble-to-order system with technology
innovations ", Management Science, Fall 2007, 53, 1467-1485.

Y.
Akcay and S.H. Xu, " Joint Inventory Replenishment and Component Allocation
Optimization in an Assemble-to-Order System ", Management Science,
Winter 2004, 50, 99-116.

H Li and S. H. Xu, "On the Coordinated Random
Group Replacement Policy in Multivariate Repairable Systems ", Operations
Research, Winter 2004, 52, 464-477.

K. Chatterjee and S. H. Xu,
"Technology Diffusion by Learning from Neighbors ", Advances in Applied
Probability, 36, 355-376 .

Editorship

Associate Editor, Operations Research
Associate Editor, IEEE Trans on
Reliability
Editorial Board, Probability in Engineering and Informational
Sciences

Education

Ph.D., Operations Research and Statistics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, NY.,
M.S., Operations Research and Statistics, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,

Courses

SC&IS/IE 5, Applied Stochastic Processes
SC&IS/IE
5, Stochastic Dynamic Programming
SCM 421, Supply Chain Modeling
and Analysis

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