Boxiao (Beryl) Chen

450 

Associate Professor
Department of Information and Decision Sciences
College of Business Administration
University of Illinois Chicago

Email: bbchen@uic.edu
Phone: (312) 996-2679

Education

  • Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering, 2010-2016, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • M.Sc. in Industrial and Operations Engineering, 2010-2012, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • B.Sc. in Financial Mathematics, 2006-2010, Shandong University, China

Academic Employment

  • Associate Professor (with tenure), 2022-Present, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

  • Assistant Professor, 2016-2022, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

Industry Experiences

  • Corporate Analytics Consultant, 2012-2015, Ford Research, Dearborn, MI

  • Corporate Strategy Summer Intern, 2014, Gap Inc., San Francisco, CA

  • Corporate Analytics Summer Intern, 2012, 2013, Ford Research, Dearborn, MI

Research Interests

  • Methodology: Bandits, Reinforcement Learning, Statistics, Stochastic Modeling and Optimization

  • Application: Inventory and Supply Chain Management, Pricing and Revenue Management, Retailing, Energy

Regular Courses

  • Supply Chain Management

  • Operations Management

  • Revenue Management

Editorial Appointment

  • Associate Editor, Operations Research Letters, 2024-

  • Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management, 2023-

  • Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce Research, 2016-