Dr. Chen

I am a lecturer in the buesiness school of Brunel University London. Prior to this role, I served as a lecturer at Southwest University, China. I earned my PhD degree in Management Science and Engineering from Beihang University, China. During my academic journey, I had the privilege of being a visiting PhD student and a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh for two separate years.

My primary research in recent years lies in cash-flow inventory management, where I leverage mathematical modeling and computer programming to address complex challenges. I also did some works in traditional inventory management and routing problems.

My CV is:   CV

Research interests:

• Inventory control
• Supply chain management
• Stochastic programming

Coding skills

Here are several coding/typesetting languages that I use for research frequently.

• Java
• Python
• Matlab
• Cplex/Gurobi/Lingo
• Latex

Mathematical skills

I have not been in the major of mathematics. However, I have been learning the following books for research.

• Fundamentals of supply chain theory.    Snyder, Lawrence V., and Zuo-Jun Max Shen. John Wiley & Sons, second edition, 2019.

• Introduction to linear optimization. Bertsimas, Dimitris, and John N. Tsitsiklis. Vol. 6. Belmont, MA: Athena Scientific, 1997.   my notebook

• Convex optimization.    Boyd, Stephen, and Lieven Vandenberghe. Cambridge University press, 2004.   my notebook

• Stochastic Programming: Volume 10 (Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science).    Ruszczyński Andrzej, and Alexander Shapiro. Elsevier, 2003.

• Introduction to stochastic programming.    Birge, John R., and Francois Louveaux. Springer Science & Business Media, 2011.

• Foundations of stochastic inventory theory.    Porteus, Evan L. Stanford University Press, 2002.

• Foundations of inventory management.    Zipkin, Paul Herbert. McGraw-Hill press, 2000.
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Hobbies

• Learning new knowledge
• History
• Ancient Chinese poems
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