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EDUCATION

 

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Kenan-Flagler Business School
Ph. D. in Operations, Technology, and Innovation Management
Dissertation Title: Competitive Supply Chain Strategies in the Retail Sector
Dissertation Co-Advisors: Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Ali K. Parlaktürk

2006-Present

 

 

Stanford University, California, CA.
M. Sc. in Management Science and Engineering

2004-2005

 

 

National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
B. Sc. in Industrial Engineering. Ranked 1st in class.

1999-2002

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Operations/Marketing Interface, Retailing
Supply Chain Integration
Quick Response
Channel Conflicts

 

 

PUBLICATION
AND SUBMITTED PAPERS

 

Lin, Y., A. K.  Parlaktürk, 2010 “Quick Response under Competition”,  under 2nd round review in Production and Operations Management

Lin, James T., T. Chen, Y. Lin, 2009. “Critical Material Planning for TFT-LCD Production Industry”, International Journal of Production Economics, 122(2) 639-655

 

WORKING PAPER

 

Lin, Y., A. K.  Parlaktürk and J. M. Swaminathan, 2010 “Vertical Integration Strategies in Fast Fashion Industry”, (targeted for Management Science)

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

INFORMS Future Academician Colloquium, Austin, Texas, 2010
UNC Center for Faculty Excellence “Future Faculty Fellowship”, 2010
Research Assistantship, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC, 2005-2009
Academic Achievement Award, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 2002

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

“Value of Quick Response under Competition” (with A. K. Parlaktürk)

·  INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, (Forthcoming) November 2010.

“Vertical Integration Strategies in Fast Fashion Industry” (with A. K.  Parlaktürk and J. M. Swaminathan)

·  INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, (Forthcoming) November 2010.

“Competition and the Value of Additional Replenishment Opportunity”  (with A. K. Parlaktürk)

·  INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 2009.

·  POMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, May 2009.

“A Hierarchical Planning and Scheduling Framework for TFT-LCD Production Chain” (with J. Lin and T. Chen)

·  IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Shanghai, China, June 2006.

 

 TEACHING  EXPERIENCE

 

Instructor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC, Summer 2010

·  BUSI 403 Operations Management (core undergraduate)

·  Overall instructor rating: 4.75/5.0

·  Course rating: 4.5/5.0

Teaching Assistant, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC, 2008-2010

·  MBA 703 Global Operations Management (MBA elective)

·  MBA 711 Supply Chain Management (MBA elective)

·  BUSI 403 Operations Management (undergraduate core)

·  BUSI 410 Business Analytical Applications (undergraduate elective)

 

 

AFFILIATIONS

 

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM)
Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) 
 

 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Intern, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Industrial Engineering Dept., 2006

·  Analyzed product life cycle for 90nm, 0.13 um and 0.15/0.18 um processes to develop tools for new process demand forecast.

·  Applied data mining and fuzzy network tools for wafer tape out time and quantity forecast.

Content Specialist, Responsive Learning Technologies, Los Altos, CA, 2005

·  Identified and analyzed potential market in Asia. Initialized sales in Asia.

·  Online education product translation and development.

Civil Service Specialist, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Taiwan, 2003-2004

·  Monitored steel products import/export data for trade policy establishment.

·  Assisted in organizing Taiwan-Japan Steel Dialogue, an international conversation involving industry leaders and high rank government officials.
 

 

 

PERSONAL

 

Spoken Languages

Interests

English (proficient), Mandarin (native)

Calligraphy, acoustic guitar