Dr. Yiwei Wang is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at ZIBS. 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 problems in business operations. His research has been accepted at journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science and Service Science. He serves as the Ad Hoc reviewer for Management Science, Operations Research, Journal of Operations Management, Omega, and Decision Analysis.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/yiweiwang/
Education
2021, Ph.D. in Management, University of California - Irvine
2013, B.S. in Operations Research, University of California - Berkeley
Work Experience
2022 – Present, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Zhejiang University
2021-2022 Research Associate, Dartmouth College
Publications
Journal Articles
[1] Yiwei Wang and Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu. The Value of Curated Boxes: Evidence from an Online Omnichannel Fashion Retailer, 2024. Under review at Management Science.
[2] Yiwei Wang, Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, and Pengcheng Shi. Does Customer Email Engagement Improve Profitability? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Subscription Service Retailing. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022, 24(5): 2703-2721.
[3] Yiwei Wang, Vidyanand Choudhary, and Shuya Yin, Product Design Enhancement for Fashion Retailing. Service Science, 2023, 15(3):157-171.
[4] Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali I. Ozkes, and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science, 2023, 70(3):1343-1356.
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
The Value of Curated Box Retailing: Evidence from an Online Omnichannel Fashion Retailer
◇POMS Annual Meeting, 2021, 2023 (Scheduled)
◇INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2020
◇UC Irvine, Paul Merage Brown Bag Series, 2019
◇ INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2019
◇INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2016, 2017
◇CSAMSE Annual Meeting, 2016, 2018
◇SoCal OR/OM Day, 2019
Research Grants
[1] Sub-project Leader for the National Key R&D Program, Research on the Theory and Methods for Evaluating the Development of Modern Service Industries, Grant No. 2022YFF0902900.
[2] Project Leader for the National High-End Think Tank Key Research Project, Grant No. 2023GDZKZD24.
[3] Project Leader for the Research on the Risk Indicator System for Safeguarding Private Enterprises.
[4] Project Leader for the Liang Shiyuan and Liang Xiulian Sino-US Research Fund, Research on the Scientific and Technological Innovation Methods uner Uncertainty.
Research Interests
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
+86 (0)573-87572702
yiweiwang@intl.zju.edu.cn
Room 308, ZIBS Building
Office Hours: Each Monday 13:00-16:00
