Qingxia KONG
School of Business
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez,
Santiago, Chile
Mobile: (569) 6227-1626
Office: (562) 331-1323
E-mail: qingxia.kong@gmail.com
W ORKING E XPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago
Aug. 2012 –present
E DUCATION
Ph.D., Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2012
∙ Supervisor: Prof. Teo Chung Piaw
∙ Thesis Title: Pattern Seeking and Service System Design Driven by Fact-Based Decision Making
M.S., Management Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
∙ Supervisor: Prof. Daoli Zhu
∙ Thesis Title: Inventory Control in Reverse Logistics
2007
B.S., Mathematics, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
2003
R ESEARCH I NTERESTS
Health-Care Management, Behavioral Decision Making, Gambling Behavior and Sports Analytics
R ESEARCH
Papers under Review & Publications
1. Scheduling Arrivals to a Stochastic Service Delivery System using Copositive Cones, with
Chung-Yee Lee, Chung-Piaw Teo, and Zhichao Zheng, Forthcoming at Operations Research.
2. Judgement Error in Lottery Play: When the Hot-Hand Meets the Gambler’s Fallacy, with Nicolas S. Lambert and Chung-Piaw Teo, under review, 2012.
3. Benford’s Law and Number Selection in Fixed-Odds Numbers Game, with Mabel Chou, ChungPiaw Teo, Zuozheng Wang and Huan Zheng. Journal of Gambling Studies 25(4), 2009, 503-521.
4. Demand Model of Stochastic Customer Choice and Its Application in Inventory Control, with
Qihui Lu, Logistics Technology, 7, 2006, 127-130.
Selected Working Papers in Progress
5. Appointment Sequencing: Moving Beyond The Smallest-Variance-First Rule, with Chung-Yee
Lee, Chung-Piaw Teo, and Zhichao Zheng, 2012.
6. Multiple Joint Ventures as a Cure for Moral Hazard, with Qiang Fu, 2011.
7. Optimal Guidelines of Screening Mammography Based on Individual Risk Factors, with Susana Mondschein, 2013.
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8. Risk and Time Preferences of Horse-race Bettors: An Experimental Study, with Songfa Zhong,
2013.
Projects
1. Singtel: Risk Management and Product Pricing, with Chung-Piaw Teo, and Zhichao Zheng,
May.- Oct. 2010.
2. National University Hospital: Queuing System Design in NUH Pharmacy, with Zhichao Zheng,
Nov. 2009 - Mar. 2010.
Others
The numbers game: Down a blind alley?, with M.Chou, Straits Times, Oct.1, 2009, Commentary
Academic Experience
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, USA
Participant, Asia Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics, NUS,
May 2011
Jul.-Aug. 2010
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jan.-Jul. 2009
S ELECTED P RESENTATIONS
Liability Limit Management in Fixed Odds Numbers Game
∙ 2nd International Conference on Mathematics in Sports, The Netherlands
Jun.2009
Multiple Joint Ventures as a Cure for Moral Hazard
∙ The International Forum on the Interface of Marketing and Operations Management, Hong
Kong
Dec. 2009
∙ POMS annual conference, Reno, USA
May 2011
Scheduling Arrivals to a Stochastic Service Delivery System using Copositive Cones
∙ National University of Singapore, Singapore
∙ MSOM annual conference, Technion, Israel
∙ POMS annual conference, Reno, USA
Jun. 2010
Jul. 2010
May 2011
Pattern Seeking and Biased Perception of Randomness
∙ Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
∙ Informs annual conference, Charlotte, USA
∙ Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile
Nov. 2011
Nov. 2011
Mar. 2012
Appointment Sequencing: Moving Beyond The Smallest-Variance-First Rule
∙ Informs annual conference, Charlotte, USA
Nov. 2012
T EACHING I NTERESTS
Behavioral Decision Making, Operations Research, Operations Management, Business Analytics
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T EACHING E XPERIENCE
Tutor
∙ Business Analytics II, National University of Singapore,
- Rating: 4.1/5, Best Teaching Award, Nominee
∙ Management science, undergraduate, National University of Singapore
- Rating: 4.0/5, Best Teaching Award, Nominee,
- Rating: 4.32/5,
Fall 2011
Fall 2009
Fall 2008
Instructor
∙ Operations Research, PhD Preparatory Course, National University of Singapore
Jul. 2008
∙ Supply Chain Management, undergraduate, Informatics, Shanghai, China
Spring 2006
∙ Olympic Mathematics at preliminary level, Regis School of Language and Mathematics, Dalian,
China
2003-2004
Teaching Training
∙ Two-day workshop on “Using Cases to Teach” by ECCH, Singapore
∙ Three individual sessions effective presentation skill, NUS
∙ Two-day training on teaching effectiveness, NUS
Aug.2011
Sep.-Nov. 2010
Aug. 2008
F UNDS & AWARD
∙ Improving service level and capacity through appointment system design in health-care
management, principle investigator, FONDECYT (Iniciación) 11121634, 2012-2015.
∙ President Graduate Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2009, 2010
∙ X-Lab Fund on Simulated Lottery Games, UC Berkeley, 2009
∙ Best Teaching Award, Nominee, National University of Singapore, 2009
∙ NUS Research Scholarship,National University of Singapore, 2007,2008
∙ Graduate Scholarship, Fudan University, 2005,2006
∙ Under-graduate Fellowship, Qingdao University 2000, 2001, 2002
P ROFESSIONAL A FFILIATIONS AND S ERVICE
Co-organizer, PhD Sharing Session, Department of Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2008,2010,2011
Session Chair, POMS Annual Conference, 2011
Ad Hoc reviewer, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research
Membership: member at INFORMS, MSOM, POMS, DSI
P ERSONAL
Citizenship: China
Language: Mandarin (Native), English, Hindi(Conversational), Spanish (Conversational)
Hobbies: Meditation (Sahaj Marg), Pack-packing, Traditional Chinese Music