He Wang
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E40-130, Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 645-6254 · Email: wanghe@mit.edu
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. in Operations Research, 2016 (expected)
S.M. in Transportation, 2013
(GPA: 5.0/5.0)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering, 2011
B.S. in Mathematics, 2011
Research Interests
 Interface between statistical learning and operations management
 Data-driven decision models and online algorithms
 Application areas: revenue management and pricing; supply chain management;
e-commerce; transportation
Work Experience
IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY (Jun 2013 - Aug 2013)
Summer Intern
Developed and implemented omni-channel pricing and demand forecasting methods for
DemandTec software (acquired by IBM) and a large office supplies retailer.
China Petrochemical Corporation, Maoming, China (Jul 2010 - Aug 2010)
Summer Intern
Developed optimization models for oil procurement decisions.
Honors & Awards
Second place in CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2013.
Edward H. Linde (1962) MIT Presidential Graduate Fellowship, 2011.
Chinese National Scholarship, awarded by the Chinese Ministry of Education, 2009.
Tsinghua Tung OOCL Scholarship, 2008, 2010.
Publications
 K. J. Ferreira, D. Simchi-Levi, and H. Wang, “Online Network Revenue Management
Using Thompson Sampling,” Under 2nd round review (major revision) in Operations
Research.
o Finalist in 2015 IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award.
 W. C. Cheung, D. Simchi-Levi, and H. Wang, “Dynamic Pricing and Demand Learning
with Limited Price Experimentation,” Under 4th round review (minor revision) in
Operations Research.
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 D. Simchi-Levi, H. Wang, and Y. Wei, “Increasing Supply Chain Robustness through
Process Flexibility and Inventory,” Under 2nd round review (major revision) in
Management Science.
o Second place in 2013 Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and
Engineering (CSAMSE) Best Paper Award.
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H.Wang, S.Huang, Z.Liu, and L.Zheng, “Optimal Tanker Chartering Decisions with Spot
Freight Rate Dynamics Considerations,” Transportation Research Part E, 51, pp.109116, 2013.
Teaching Experience
Business Analytics, MIT – Summer 2014
Teaching Assistant
 Summer course for Accenture managers; part of the Accenture-MIT Alliance.
 Co-developed materials for this new course; taught lectures on various machine
learning techniques and their applications.
Supply Chain Planning, MIT – Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant
 MBA course; topics include inventory models, contracts, information sharing, etc.
 Created review materials and taught weekly recitation sessions; graded homework.
Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Design, MIT – Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant
 MBA course focusing on system design in supply chains and manufacturing systems.
 Developed software exercises; developed and taught weekly recitation sessions; graded
homework.
Systems Optimization, MIT – Spring 2013
Teaching Assistant
 Master’s level course for the System Design Management program; typical students
have 7-10 years of work experience.
 Taught lectures on supply contracts and portfolio selection; graded homework.
Presentations
2016: INFORMS Optimization Conference (Princeton, NJ); UC Berkeley; UIUC,
University of Michigan; Carnegie Mellon University.
2015: University of North Carolina; Georgia Institute of Technology; INFORMS Annual
Meeting (Philadelphia, PA); MIT Sloan OM Seminar; MSOM Supply Chain SIG
Conference (Toronto, Canada); INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing
Conference (New York, NY); POMS Annual Conference (Washington, DC).
2014: INFORMS Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA); MSOM Conference (Seattle, WA).
2013: INFORMS Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, MN).
2012: INFORMS Annual Meeting (Phoenix, AZ).
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