Xiaofeng Zhao (xzhao)

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Area(s) of Expertise: Business Analytics, Quantitative Business Modeling, Service Operations, Supply Chain Management
Woodard Hall Room 255
xzhao@umw.edu
540-654-1519


Academic Degrees

University of Tennessee Ph.D. Business; Indiana University of Pennsylvania MBA Business; Xian Jiaotaong University B.S. Engineering

Xiaofeng Zhao, professor of the College of Business, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, an MBA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, an M.Ph. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. from Xian Jiaotong University, China. He is an expert on quantitative methods and business analytics with applications in operations and supply chain management.

Dr. Zhao’s work has been published in numerous scholarly journals and conference proceedings, including the Journal of Management Analytics, Management Decision, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, and the Decision Science Institute proceedings. He recently presented at the Decision Science Institute Annual Meeting and the INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Dr. Zhao is a member of the Decision Science Institute, the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and Beta Gamma Sigma, the business honor society.

Dr. Zhao teaches business analytics, quantitative business modeling, service management, and operations management.

Xiaofeng Zhao in the News

Zhao Presents at Decision Sciences Institute Conference

Xiaofeng Zhao, professor of the College of Business, recently presented a paper entitled “Application of priority queuing system in service operations” at the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) 54th annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The paper has been published in the conference proceedings. Zhao chaired a Service Systems and Operations session. Read more…

Zhao Publishes in Journal of Management Analytics

Xiaofeng Zhao, associate professor in the College of Business, recently had his co-authored article "Analyzing the time buffer in the Theory of Constraints based lean operations" published in the Journal of Management Analytics, Volume 1, Issue 3.   [...] The post Zhao Publishes in Journal of Management Analytics appeared first on EagleEye. Read more…

Srivastava Organizes International Conference

Mukesh Srivastava is organizing the fifth International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom on May 20 and 21, 2014 with John Saee, of the ESB School of Business, Reutlingen University in Germany.  The theme of the conference Read more…

Zhao Publishes Article

Xiaofeng Zhao, associate professor of the College of Business, has published a journal article as lead author, “Measuring the variance of customer waiting time in service operations” in Management Decision. [...] The post Zhao Publishes Article appeared first on EagleEye. Read more…

Xiaofeng Zhao’s Article Accepted for Publication

Associate Professor in the College of Business, Dr. Xiaofeng Zhao’s article, "Nonlinear Programming," has been accepted by the Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization (EBAO). The article will be published by IGI Global in 2014. Another article by Dr. Zhao, "Linear Programming," will also be published in EBAO. [...] The post Xiaofeng Read more…
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