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Dr Zhan Pang

  • PhD in Operational Research (CUHK, China)
  • MSc in Mathematics (Nanjing University, China)
  • BSc in Mathematics (Nanjing University, China)

Lecturer

Department

Management Science

Contact

Room: A59
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 593731
Fax: + 44 (0)1524 844885
Email:

Professional Role

Current Teaching

  • Pricing Analytics and Revenue Management
  • Business Analytics/Statistics
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Public Service Analysis

Research Interests

  • Pricing Analytics and Optimization
  • Consumer Behaviour 
  • Health Care Service Management
  • Energy Systems Modelling and Risk Analytics

Current Research

Health Care Service Management

  • Managing Outpatient Appointment via Choose-and-Book (with Houyuan Jiang and Sergei Savin)
  • Performance-Based Contracting for Outpatient Medical Services (with Houyuan Jiang and Sergei Savin)

Consumer Behavior, Pricing Strategies and Revenue Management

  • Profiting from Demand Uncertainty: Pricing Strategies in Advance Selling (with X. Zhao)
  • Dynamic Pricing Strategies for Non-Stationary Lost-Sales Inventory Systems
  • On the Bid Price Trends in Revenue Management (with O. Berman and M. Hu)
  • A Note On the Structure of Joint Inventory-Pricing Control with Lead Times  (with Frank Y. Chen and Y. Feng)
  • Dynamic Inventory-Pricing Control of a Continuous Review System with Batch Ordering and Random Leadtimes (with Frank Y. Chen)
  • Inventory Rationing of a Make-to-Stock Production System with Batch Ordering and Lost Sales (with H. Shen and T.C.E. Cheng)

Smart Energy Systems and Commodity Risk Analytics

  • Integration of Financial Hedging and Operational Hedging Strategies for Storable Commodities (with Qing Ding and Panos Kouvelis)
  • Hedging Against Uncertainty: A Tale of Internet Data Center Operations Under Smart Grid Environment (with Lei Rao, Xue Liu and Le Xie), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, VOL. 2, NO. 3, 555-563. 

Publications

  • Pang Z and Jiang H, 2011, 'Network capacity management under competition', Computational Optimization and Applications: An International Journal
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  • Pang Z, 2011, 'Optimal dynamic pricing and inventory control with stock deterioration and partial backordering', Operations Research Letters
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