WANG Yiwei

WANG Yiwei

Assistant Professor
iMDS Program Director

Dr. Yiwei Wang is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Zhejiang University - International Business School (ZIBS), and a researcher at Zhejiang University - International Center for Data Science. He obtained his Ph.D. from UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business, and his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. His research uses field experiments, causal inference, machine learning, and applied economic modelling to study consumer behaviors and operations management problems in online and brick-and-mortar retail settings. His research has been accepted at journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Service Science. He currently serves as the Ad Hoc reviewer for Management Science, Operations Research, Journal of Operations Management, and Decision Analysis.

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/yiweiwang/
  • Education
    • 2021, PhD in Management, University of California - Irvine
    • 2013, BS in Operations Research, University of California - Berkeley
  • Work Experience
    • Assistant Professor, International Business School, 2022–present
    • Researcher, International Research Center for Data Science, 2023–present
  • Publications
    Journal Articles
    • Wang, Y., Lu, L. X., & Shi, P. (2022). Does customer email engagement improve profitability? Evidence from a field experiment in subscription service retailing. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24(5), 2703-2721.
    • Wang, Y., Choudhary, V., & Yin, S. (2023). Product design enhancement for fashion retailing. Service Science 15(3):157-171.
    • Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali I. Ozkes, and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (2023). Reproducibility in Management Science. Forthcoming at Management Science.
                 Note: Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.


    Conference Presentations
    • Does Customer Email Engagement Improve Profitability? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Subscription Service Retailing
              ◇ Santa Clara University, 2021
              ◇ University of San Diego, 2021
              ◇ Chinese University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen, 2021
              ◇ University of Science and Technology of China, 2021 
              ◇ Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 2021 
              ◇ Zhejiang University, 2021 
              ◇ University of Waterloo, 2022
              ◇ CSAMSE Annual Meeting, 2022
              ◇ INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2020, 2021
              ◇ POMS Annual Meeting, 2021
              ◇ POMS China, 2022
     
    • Membership Design for Subscription-Based Retailing (with Jing-Sheng Song)
              ◇UC Irvine, Paul Merage Brown Bag Series, 2019
              ◇INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2019
    • Product Design Enhancement for Fashion Retailing
              ◇ INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2016, 2017
              ◇CSAMSE Annual Meeting, 2016, 2018
              ◇SoCal OR/OM Day, 2019
     
  • Research Grants
    • 2023-2024,国家高端智库重点课题:消费品工业品牌评价体系构建研究, 负责人
    • 2022-2024,省工商联护航民营企业风险指标体系课题, 负责人
    • 2018-2018,Long Marilyn US-China Research Grant
  • Research Interests
    • Retail Operations Management
    • Machine Learning and Data-Driven Research
    • Customer Service Management
  • Teaching Courses
    • Operations Management: GCM (2022), GCM (2023), iMBA (2022), iMBA (2023)
    • Business Statistical Analysis: iMBA (2023)
    • Supply Chain Data Analysis: iMDS (2024)
  • Awards & Honors
    • 05/2020 Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
    • 09/2014 Doctoral Student Fellowship
    • 04/2011 Alpha Pi Mu Honor Society, Berkeley Chapter
WANG Yiwei