Dr. Chen

My Brunel University webpage

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Eastern Gateway 201

Business School, Uxbridge UB8 3PH

London

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.


Hobbies

  • Learning new knowledge
  • History
  • Ancient Chinese poems

latest posts

selected publications

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    Maximizing the survival probability in a cash flow inventory problem with a joint service level constraint
    Zhen Chen ,  and  Thomas W Archibald
    International Journal of Production Economics, 2024
    accepted in Feb, 2024
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    On the stochastic inventory problem under order capacity constraints
    Roberto Rossi ,  Zhen Chen ,  and  S Armagan Tarim
    European Journal of Operational Research, 2024
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    A multi-period multi-product stochastic inventory problem with order-based loan
    Zhen Chen ,  and  Ren-qian Zhang
    International Journal of Production Research, 2021
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    A cash-constrained dynamic lot-sizing problem with loss of goodwill and credit-based loan
    Zhen Chen ,  and  Ren-qian Zhang
    International Transactions in Operational Research, 2021
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    A dynamic ordering policy for a stochastic inventory problem with cash constraints
    Zhen Chen ,  and  Roberto Rossi
    Omega, 2021
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    考虑资金借贷与资金约束的单产品批量问题
    陈震 ,  and  张人千
    系统工程学报, 2019
    in Chinese