Education

Ph.D. in Operations Management, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2006
Bachelor’s and Master’s in Management Engineering, University of Liege, 2000

Current Position
Associate Professor in Operations Management, Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, From September 2015

Past Positions
Assistant Professor in Operations Management, Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, July 2013 - August 2015
Assistant Professor in Operations Management, School of Industrial Engineering, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 2011 - 2013
Assistant Professor in Operations Management, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 2006 - 2011
Visiting Professor, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Summer 2008
Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Corporate Finance, University of Liege, 2000 - 2001

Publications
  1. “Product Variety and Inventory Decisions Under a Locational Choice Model,” with Vishal Gaur, Management Science, 2006, 52(10), 1528-1543.
  2. “Admission Control With Incomplete Information to a Finite Buffer Queue,” with Sridhar Seshadri, Probability in the Engineering and the Information Sciences, 2007, 21, 19-46.
  3. “Assortment Planning and Inventory Decisions Under Stock-out Based Substitution,” with Vishal Gaur and Sridhar Seshadri, Operations Research, 2010, 58(5), 1364-1379.
  4. “Assortment Planning With Vertically Integrated Products,” with Xiajun (Amy) Pan, Production and Operations Management, 2012, 21(2), 253-275. Winner of the Wickham Skinner Best Paper Published in Production and Operations Management (2012)
  5. “Optimal Algorithms for Assortment Selection Under Ranking-based Consumer Choice Models,” with Xiajun (Amy) Pan and Sreelata Jonnalagedda, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2012, 14(2), 279-289.
  6. “Learning Consumer Tastes Through Dynamic Assortments,” with Canan Ulu and Aydin Alptekinoglu, Operations Research, 2012, 60(4), 833-849.
  7. “A Multi-Supplier Sourcing Problem With a Preference Ordering of Suppliers,” with Vishal Gaur and Sridhar Seshadri, Production and Operations Management, 2012, 21(6), 1028-1041.
  8. “Fixed versus Random Proportions Demand Models for Assortment Planning,” with Sridhar Seshadri, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2013, 15(3), 378-386.
  9. “The Time-Dependent Pollution-Routing Problem,” with Anna Franceschetti, Tom Van Woensel, Tolga Bektas and Gilbert Laporte, Transportation Research Part B, 2013, 56, 265-293.
  10. “The Value of Accounting for Demand Seasonality in Retail Inventory Management,” with Joachim Ehrenthal and Tom Van Woensel, European Journal of Operational Research, 2014, 238(3), 527-539.
  11. “A meta-heuristic for the time-dependent pollution routing problem,” with Anna Franceschetti, Emrah Demir, Tom Van Woensel, Gilbert Laportea, Mark Stobbe, European Journal of Operation Research, 2017, 259(3), 972-991.
  12. “Strategic fleet planning for city logistics,” with Anna Franceschetti, Gilbert Laporte, Tom Van Woensel, ​Jan C. Fransoo, Transportation Research Part B, 2017, 95, 19-40.
  13. “Flexibility in Long-Term Relationships: An Experimental Study” (with Dorothee Honhon), Manufacturing, Service & Operations Management, Forthcoming.

Other Publications
  1. “Why I Love Grocery Shopping,” POMS Chronicle, 2008, 15(2), 12.

Research Grants
  • ICI-Unilever Research Grant, Co-investigator with Gurhan Kok, 2009, €20,000
  • McCombs Research Excellence Grant, Co-investigator with Canan Ulu, $6075

Honors and Awards
  • Wickham Skinner Best Paper Published in Production and Operations Management (2012) for the paper entitled, “Assortment Planning for Vertically Differentiated Products” (with Xiajun Amy Pan)
  • Presented in the “Best of WORMS” session at INFORMS, 2011: “Three Women in OR/MS Present Their Highly Influential Work Published in INFORMS Journals in 2010”
  • Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors (2011), $2,500 prize
  • University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award for Assistant Professors, 2010, $25,000 prize
  • MSOM Meritorious Service Award, 2009
  • Stern Award for Ph.D. Teaching Excellence, 2005-2006
  • Fonds E.G. de Barsy Fellowship, Fonds National de la Recherce Scientifique, Belgium, 2001-2002
  • Dexia Prize for best undergraduate thesis, University of Liege, 2000

Invited Seminars & Conferences
  • INSEAD (2012, 2006), INFORMS (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006) Behavioral OM Conference (INSEAD, 2011), POMS Annual Conference (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009), George Washington University, TU/e Eindhoven, ALIO-INFORMS (2010), CORS-INFORMS (2009), University of Texas at Dallas, Southern Methodist University, University of Michigan, Cornell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Texas at Austin, University of Utah, University of Alberta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Melbourne Business School, University of Ottawa, Zaragoza Logistics Center

Ph.D. Student Supervision
  • Anna Franceschetti, Technische Univsersiteit Eindhovem 2011-present, Daily Supervisor
  • Xiajun (Amy) Pan, University of Texas at Austin, 2007-2009, Co-chair of thesis committee
  • Sreelata Jonnalagedda, University of Texas at Austin, 2007-2009, Member of thesis committee

Refereeing
  • Annals of Operations Research, IEEE Transactions of Engineering Management, Management Science, MSOM, Naval Research Logistics, Operations Research, OR Letters, Production and Operations Management

Service
  • Chaired the INFORMS Future Academician Colloquium at the Annual Meeting in Austin, 2010
  • Member of the IROM Department’s Executive Committee at the McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2011

Professional Affiliations
INFORMS, MSOM, Consortium of Operations Excellence in Retailing.Strategic fleet planning for city logistics