Dr. Lei Lei, Associate Professor
Director, Rutgers Center for SCM
Department of MSIS
Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University
973-353-5185 (Office)
973-353-1165 (Fax)
llei@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Email)
Dr. Lei Lei graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989 with a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Computer Sciences. She jointed Rutgers Business School as an Assistant Professor in 1989 and received her tenure in 1996. Her main research interests are in supply chain logistics optimization, distribution network designs, channel coordination analysis and optimization, cyclic scheduling, computer simulation and resource constrained project management. She has published many research papers in refereed academic journals such as Management Science, IIE Transactions, INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Operation Research Letters, Annals of Operations Research, and Interfaces, etc. She is also a leading researcher for a recent industry project on integrated optimization of production, inventory, and transportation, which led to a multi-million dollar annual saving for the company after the implementation and the semi-finalist for the prestigious Edelman Award for the best application of Management Science and Operations Research. In addition to her regular graduate program teaching assignment, for which she has received a number of outstanding teaching awards, she also serves as the dissertation advisor of a group of Ph.D. students and the director of Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management. She is the co-Guest Editor for Annals of Operations Research (1997, 2006), and the Associate Editor of IIE Transactions since 1996. She will also be the co-program chair of 2005 MISTA (International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications).
