Ralph L. Disney Professor, Master’s Program Director

Location

2895 IOE

Primary Website

https://xchao.engin.umich.edu/

Additional Titles

Master’s Program Director

Research Interests

• Applications
• Energy
• Manufacturing
• Service Systems
• Industrial Operations
• Distribution & Logistics
• Inventory Control
• Supply-Chain Management
• Operations Research Tools
• Game Theory
• Queuing Theory
• Stochastic Opt. & Control
• Stochastic Processes

Biography

Xiuli Chao’s research interests include queueing, scheduling, financial engineering, inventory control, and supply chain management. He has also held regular or visiting positions at the University of California at Irvine, Columbia University, North Carolina State University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and National University of Singapore. Dr. Chao is the co-developer of Lekin Scheduling System. He is the co-author of two books, “Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services” (Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1998), and “Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals, and Product Form Solutions” (John Wiley & Sons, 1999). Chao received the 1998 Erlang Prize from the Applied Probability Society of Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the 2005 David Baker Distinguished Research Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He has consulted for many companies on logistics, supply chains, and inventory management. Chao is a fellow of both IISE and INFORMS.