TONG WU
4-352 Coral Simon Hall Rochester, NY 14627 USA Email: [email protected] Cell: 585-365-5113 EDUCATION Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems June 2018 (Expected) Simon Business School, University of Rochester, New York, USA
M.S. in Business Administration 2013 Simon Business School, University of Rochester, New York, USA
M.S. in Mathematics (Statistics & Operations Research) 2011 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois, USA
M.S. in Finance & Economics 2009 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois, USA
B.A. in Economics 2007 Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Liaoning, P.R. China EXPERIENCE . Instructor – Lab of Information Systems for Management (MBA Core) 2013 – Present o Taught advanced Excel modeling, SQL, VBA, Tableau, Project Management Tools . Lab Instructor – Data Analytics (MBA Core) 2015 . Lab Instructor – Framing and Analyzing Business Problems (MBA Core) 2014 . Course Instructor – Concepts of Statistics (Undergraduate) 2011 . Course Instructor – Statistics (Undergraduate) 2010 . Teaching Assistant – Business Modeling, Managerial Economics, Supply Chain Analytics, Operations Management 2012 – 2015 PROGRAMMING/COMPUTER SKILLS . Programming – Python, Java, VBA, Z-tree . Databases – Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Hive/Hadoop . Statistics – R, STATA, SAS, Matlab, EVIEWS . Business Intelligence – Tableau . Simulation – Arena, ExtendSim . Graphic Design – Photoshop, Flash . Web – HTML/CSS, ASP, Dreamweaver RESEARCH INTERESTS & SPECIALITIES . Social Media Analytics, Big Data Analytics, E-Commerce, Online Reputation System, Recommender Systems . Behavioral Operations Management and Marketing, Revenue Optimization, Yield Management . Experiment Design, Statistical Modeling . Machine Learning, Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Data Mining . Econometrics, Simulation, Panel Data Models, Causal Inference, Game Theory
1 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS . Tong Wu and Abraham Seidmann, “Can Irrelevant Benchmark Information Help When Making Business Decisions under Uncertainty? An Empirical Investigation of the Newsvendor Game” Accepted and Forthcoming, Decision Support Systems . Tong Wu and Abraham Seidmann, “Does Interim Winner's Performance Information Play A Role? An Empirical Investigation of the Rank-order Newsvendor Contests” on The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2016, Nashville, USA . Tong Wu and Abraham Seidmann, “Are Group Decisions Better than an Individual’s? Investigating Business Decisions under Uncertainty” o Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM) 2015, Toronto, Canada o 10th Annual Behavioral Operations Conference 2015, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA . Tong Wu and Abraham Seidmann, “Are Groups Better Than Individuals at Making Decisions? An Experimental Study on Newsvendor Problem” In System Sciences (HICSS) 2015, pp. 4252-4261. . Tong Wu and Abraham Seidmann, “Using the Newsvendor Game as a New Research Environment for Behavioral OM and Marketing” o The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2014, San Francisco, USA o 26th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO|INFORMS MMXIII) 2013, Rome, Italy . Tong Wu and Abraham Seidmann, “Do Competitive Environments Have an Effect on Managerial Decision Making? An Empirical Investigation of the Newsvendor Problem” In System Sciences (HICSS) 2014, pp. 4180-4189. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award) . Jiming Yin and Tong Wu, “Competitive Power Analysis on Fourteen Major Cities of Liaoning Province” In Liaoning Co-operative Economy and Science 2007 (10), pp. 12. WORKING IN PROGRESS . Tong Wu, Abraham Seidmann, and Huaxia Rui, “The Effect of Highlighted Reviews on Users’ Behavior” . Tong Wu and Christy Spivey, “Customer Discrimination: Evidence from the Magazine Industry” . Tong Wu and Huaxia Rui, “Economic of Pre-owned Digital Marketplace” . Tong Wu and Galina Torres, “Methods to Reduce No-shows in a Clinic” HONORS AND AWARDS . Teaching Assistantship, Simon Business School, 2012-present . Doctoral Fellowship, Simon Business School, 2011-2015 . Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, SIUE, 2011 . The N.P. Pendergrass Graduate Scholarship Award, SIUE, 2010 . Membership of Phi Kappa Phi, SIUE, 2010 . Vice President of Pi Mu Epsilon, SIUE, 2010 . Teaching Assistant Award, SIUE, 2009-2011 . International Student Leadership Award, SIUE, 2008 . Graduate Assistantship Award, SIUE, 2007-2009 . Excellent Award of Qumei-Cup Graphic Design Contest, DUFE, 2006 . Comprehensive Scholarship, 2nd Prize, DUFE, 2006 . Excellent Student Leader Award, DUFE, 2005 . 1st Prize in Drama Competition, DUFE, 2004 . Excellent Freshman Training Award (Top 5), DUFE, 2003
2 OTHER EXPERIENCE . Public Relations Chair of International Student Council, SIUE, 2008-2010 . Lab Assistant at Anthropology Department, SIUE, 2007-2009 . Office Assistant of the Industrial Economic Association and Center for Industrial and Business Organization (http://www.io-base.org), China, 2005-2007 . Programmer and Designer of a Flash Movie Appeared on Major Media in Dalian, China, 2005 . Vice President of Information Management Department of Student Union (DUFE), 2004-2006 . President of “San Yuan Se”, the Most Powerful Media of DUFE (http://colors.dufe.edu.cn), 2004-2006 REFERENCES
. Prof. Abraham Seidmann Xerox Professor of Computers and Information Systems and Operations Management Simon Business School, University of Rochester Rochester, NY, 14627 Phone: 585-275-5694 Email: [email protected]
. Prof. Huaxia Rui Assistant Professor of Computers and Information Systems Simon Business School, University of Rochester Rochester, NY, 14627 Phone: 585-275-4278 Email: [email protected]
. Prof. Harry Groenevelt Associate Professor of Operations Management Simon Business School, University of Rochester Rochester, NY, 14627 Phone: 585-275-2825 Email: [email protected]
. Prof. Ravi Mantena Clinical Associate Professor of Computers and Information Systems Simon Business School, University of Rochester Rochester, NY, 14627 Phone: 585-275-1079 Email: [email protected]
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