Xingwen ZHANG

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., OIT (Operations, Information and Technology).
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. June 2010 (expected).

M.S., Financial Mathematics. Stanford University. June 2008.

B.Comp. (First Class Honors), Computer Science.
School of Computing, National University of Singapore. December 2002.

Dissertation  Research Interests  Papers  Work Experience  Awards & Honors

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Dissertation

          Title
          Contracting on the Process of Discovery

          Advisor
          Sunil Kumar

          Reading Committee
          Sunil Kumar, OIT, Stanford GSB (Advisor)
          Michael Harrison, OIT, Stanford GSB
          Evan Porteus, OIT, Stanford GSB

          Oral Examination Committee (defense on 8/31/2009)
          Thomas Weber, MS&E, Stanford (Chair)
          Sunil Kumar, OIT, Stanford GSB (Advisor)
          Michael Harrison, OIT, Stanford GSB
          Evan Porteus, OIT, Stanford GSB
          Yossi Feinberg, Economics, Stanford GSB

Research Interests

Economics of Innovations and Innovation Alliances
Economics of Information Technology
Operations and Finance Interface
Stochastic Dynamic Optimization and its Applications
Empirical Research in Technological Innovations
Large-Scale Optimization

Papers

          Journal

1.      X. Zhang and S. Kumar. "Contracting on the Process of Discovery". Working Paper.

2.      A. Lim and X. Zhang. "A Two-Stage Heuristic with Ejection Pools and Generalized Ejection Chains for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows". INFORMS Journal on Computing, 19(3):443-457, 2007. [Full Text (PDF)]

3.      A. Lim, B. Rodrigues and X. Zhang. "Scheduling Sports Competitions at Multiple Venues - Revisited". European Journal of Operational Research, 175(1):171-186, 2006. [Full Text (PDF)]

4.      A. Lim, B. Rodrigues and X. Zhang. "A Simulated Annealing and Hill-Climbing Algorithm for the Traveling Tournament Problem". European Journal of Operational Research, 174(3):1459-1478, 2006. [Full Text (PDF)]

5.     A. Lim, B. Rodrigues and X. Zhang. "Metaheuristics with Local Search Techniques for Retail Shelf-Space Optimization". Management Science, 50(1):117-131, 2004. [Full Text (PDF)]

          Refereed Conference

1.      X. Zhang and S. Kumar. "Contracting on the Process of Discovery". The 14th Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Conference (MSOM2009), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June 2009. [Full Text (PDF)]

2.      A. Lim and X. Zhang. "The Container Loading Problem". The 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2005), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, March 2005. [Full Text (PDF)]

3.      A. Lim and X. Zhang. "A Two-Stage Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and a Limited Number of Vehicles". The 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38), Hawaii, USA, January 2005. [Full Text (PDF)]

4.      A. Lim, X. Zhang and Y. Zhu. "A Hybrid Method for the Graph Coloring and Related Problems".  The 5th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC2003), Kyoto, Japan, August 2003. [Full Text (PDF)]

5.      A. Lim and X. Zhang. "Integer Programming and Simulated Annealing for Scheduling Sports Competition on Multiple Venues".  The 5th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC2003), Kyoto, Japan, August 2003. [Full Text (PDF), Appendix (PDF)]

6.      A. Lim, B. Rodrigues, F. Xiao and X. Zhang. "Adjusted Network Flow for the Shelf-Space Allocation Problem". The 14th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI2002), Washington, USA, November 2002.  [Full Text (PDF)]

Work Experience

2003-2005, Instructional/Research Assistant. Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
(Work Supervisor: Andrew Lim, who is also my Honors Year Thesis supervisor)

Awards & Honors

Recipient of GSB Fellowship (2005-2010) for Study at Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

4th in 01/02 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (Asian Regionals, Taiwan, November 2001)

4th in 01/02 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (Asian Regionals, Japan, November 2001)

29th (Reserve) in 00/01 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (World Finals, Canada, March 2001)

Meritorious Prize in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, administrated by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (2001)