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.

I am passionate about coding and mathematics. In recent years, my primary research has focused on cash-flow inventory management, where I apply mathematical modeling and stochastic programming to tackle complex challenges. At present and in the coming years, my research will center on the inventory routing problem, with particular emphasis on data-driven methodologies (such as artificial intelligence) and stochastic programming.

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/teaching frequently.

• Python
• C++/C
• Java
• Cplex/Gurobi/Lingo
• Javascript/Html/Css
• Matlab
• 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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