Xu Han

Operations and Information Management Department

School of Business, University of Connecticut

Phone: (860) 576-0932

Email:

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EDUCATION

2012 – 2017 (Expected)Ph. D.

Operations and Information Management Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs-Mansfield, CT, U.S.

2015 – 2017 (Expected)M.S.

Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs-Mansfield, CT, U.S.

2008 – 2012M.S.

Department of Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs-Mansfield, CT, U.S.

2005 – 2008M.S.

School of Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.

2001 - 2005B.S.

School of Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Healthcare;

Information Systems and Data Analytics;

Mathematical Modeling, Optimization and Decision Making;

Social Media and Social Networks

REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS & WORKING PAPERS

1. X. Han, N. Yaraghi, R. Gopal, “Winning at All Costs: Analysis of Inflation in Nursing Homes’ Rating System”, Production and Operations Management, under review.

2. X. Han, N. Yaraghi, R. Gopal, “Nursing Home Inspection and Audit”, working paper, target journal: Information Systems Research.

3. X.Han, “Is Opaque Selling Profitable? Airline Revenue Management with Opaque Competition,” working paper, target journal: Production and Operations Management

4. X. Han, S. Bhattacharjee, W. Ketter, L. Rook, “Is Altruism Overrated? Effects of Information Transparency and Social Value Orientation on Smart Grid Balancing,” working paper, target journal: MIS Quarterly.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & INVITED TALKS

1.X.Han, S. Bhattacharjee, L.Rook, W. Ketter, P. Goyal, “Smart Grid Balancing: Estimating the Impact of Information Transparency and Social Values on a Public Good Infrastructure”, SCECR 2016, Naxos Island, Greece.

2. X. Han, N. Yaraghi, R. Gopal, “An Empirical Investigation on the Rating Manipulation of Nursing Homes”, INFORMS 2015, Philadelphia.

3. X. Han, N. Yaraghi, R. Gopal, “An Empirical Investigation on the Prevalence of Manipulation in Nursing Homes’ Rating System”, CIST 2015, Philadelphia.

4. X. Han, N. Yaraghi, R. Gopal, “An Empirical Investigation on the Prevalence of Manipulation in Nursing Homes’ Rating System,” Special Issue of Production and Operations Management on Healthcare and Conference at Indiana University 2015, Bloomington.

5. L. Rook, S. Bhattacharjee, X. Han and W. Ketter, “Impact of Information Transparency and Social Value Orientation on Smart Grid Balancing”, INFORMS 2014, San Francisco.

6. X. Han, S. Bhattacharjee, W. Ketter, L. Rook, “Is Altruism Overated? Effects of Information Transparency and Social Value Orientation on Smart Grid Balancing,” Proceedings of the INFORM Conference on Information and Technology 2014, San Francisco, California, November 2014.

7. J. Liu, X. Han, M. Al-Bzoor, M. Zuba, J. Cui, R. A. Ammar and S. Rajasekaran, “PADP: Prediction Assisted Dynamic Surface Gateway Placement for Mobile Underwater Networks,”Proceedings ofthe IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2012, Cappadocia, Turkey, July 2012.

8. M. A. Bragin, X. Han, P. B. Luh, J. H. Yan and N. Yu, “An Efficient Surrogate Subgradient Method withinLagrangian Relaxation for the Payment Cost Minimization Problem,” Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society 2012 General Meeting, San Diego, California, July 2012.

9. X. Han, P. B. Luh, M. A. Bragink, J. H. Yan and G. A. Stern, “Solving Payment Cost Co-optimization Problems,” Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society 2012 General Meeting, San Diego, California, July 2012.

10. M. A. Bragin, X. Han, P. B. Luh and J. H. Yan, “Payment Cost Minimization using Lagrangian Relaxation and a Modified Surrogate Optimization Approach,” Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society 2011 General Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, July 2011.

11. X. Han, P. B. Luh, J. H. Yan and G. A. Stern, “Energy and Spinning Reserve Payment Cost Co-optimization,” Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society 2011 General Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, July 2011.

12. X. Han, P. B. Luh, J. H. Yan and G. A. Stern, “Payment Cost Minimization with Transmission Capacity Constraints and Losses using the Objective Switching Method,” Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society 2010 General Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 2010.

13. X. Han, Z. C. Mu, “Multi-pose Ear Recognition based on Improved Locally Linear Embedding,” Proceedings of the 2008 International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, Sanya, Hainan, China, May 2008.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, OPIM 3103, Business Information Systems

Instructor, OPIM 3104, Introduction to Operations Management

Instructor, BADM 3760, Business Administration: Business Information Systems

AWARDS

2016-2017OPIM Outstanding Ph.D. Scholar Award

2014-2015University Pre-doctoral Fellowship

2014INFORM CIST 2014, Best Poster Presentation Award -- 2nd Place, San Francisco

2014OPIM Department Summer Pre-doctoral Fellowship

2013-2014University Pre-doctoral Fellowship

2012-2013University Pre-doctoral Fellowship

2012UConn School of Business Ph.D. Outstanding Applicant Fellowship

2003-2004National Distinguished Scholarship sponsored by Education Ministry & Financial Ministry

2002-2003Sony Scholarship sponsored by Sony Co. Ltd

GRANTS

2016NIHCM (National Institute for Health Care Management) Foundation Grant, 2016

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Session Chair: Information Systems Session I, INFORMS 2015, Philadelphia

Reviewer for Conferences: CIST, ICIS, WITS, CSWIM

Reviewer for Journals: Journal of Database Management

MEMBERSHIP

  • INFORMS
  • AMCIS

SKILLS

  • Analytical:
  • Econometrics
  • Linear/Nonlinear Programming, Integer Programming
  • Game Theory
  • Data Mining
  • Programming:
  • Data Processing: SAS, R, Stata, SPSS Modeler/SPSS Statistics,
  • General Programming: Matlab, C, C++, VBA,
  • Optimization: IBM ILOG CPLEX, MatPower,
  • Web Programming: HTML, PHP.
  • Database: SQL
  • Documenting: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Language:
  • English
  • Chinese
  • Others: Certified Amateur pianist

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