Faculty Directory
Joe Zhu
Professor
Office: Washburn Shops, 301
Phone: +1-508-831-5467
Fax: +1-508-831-5720
jzhu@wpi.edu
Related Information
Educational Background
- M.S., Southeast University, 1992
- Ph.D., Southeast University, 1995
- Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1998
Research & Teaching Interests
Performance evaluation; productivity analysis; process improvement; operational system design and optimization
IQP Advising Interests
Impact of new technologies; economics of health care; resource management; effect of technology on social systems; international comparisons; impact of technical change on job & business
Research Grants
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship, hosted by the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, May-July, 2002.
- Hospital Quality Measurement & Reporting, KPMG & UIUC Business Measurement Research Program
- William Evans Visiting Fellow, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2010
Recent Publications
Professional Experience & Activities
- Associate Editor, OMEGA
- Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research
- Editorial Board Member, Computers & Operations Research
- Guest Editor, Annals of Operations Research
- Guest Editor, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making
- Cluster Co-Chairperson, "Data Envelopment Analysis Cluster", INFORMS National Meeting, May 7-10, 2000, Salt Lake City, UT.
- Cluster Co-Chairperson, "Data Envelopment Analysis Cluster", INFORMS/KORMS International Meeting, June 18-21, 2000, Seoul, Korea.
- Cluster Co-Chairperson, "Data Envelopment Analysis Cluster", INFORMS National Meeting, November 5-8, 2000, San Antonio, TX.
- Cluster Co-Chairperson, "Data Envelopment Analysis Cluster", INFORMS International Meeting, June 17-20, 2001, Maui.
- Cluster Co-Chairperson, "Data Envelopment Analysis Cluster", INFORMS National Meeting, November 4-7, 2001, Miami, FL.
- Stream Co-Chairperson, "Data Envelopment Analysis Cluster", International Federation of Operational Research Societies Meeting, July 8-12, 2002, Edinburgh.
- Cluster Co-Chairperson, "Data Envelopment Analysis Cluster", INFORMS National Meeting, November 17-20, 2002, San Jose, CA.
- Cluster Co-Chairperson, "Data Envelopment Analysis Cluster", CORS/INFORMS Joint International Meeting-Banff, May 16-19, 2004, Alberta, Canada.
- Advisory Board Member, North American Productivity Workshop 2004, June 23-25, University of Toronto, Canada.
- Cluster Co-Chairperson, "Data Envelopment Analysis Cluster", INFORMS Narional Meeting, Nov. 13-16, 2005 New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Reviewed for:
- Management Science
- Operations Research
- Organization Science
- European Journal of Operational Research
- Journal of the Operational Research Society
- Annals of Operations Research
- IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
- International Journal of Production Economics
- OMEGA, The International Journal of Management Science
- Journal of Manufacturing
- Journal of Productivity Analysis
- Operations Research Letters
- Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
- Computers and Operations Research
- Journal of Business Research
- Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis
- Networks
- INFOR
- Journal of Cost Analysis & Management
- International Transactions in Operations Research
- Economics of Education Review
- Computers & Mathematics with Applications
- Encyclopedia of Information Systems
- Computers & Industrial Engineering
- Health Care Management Science
