Name: Kai Huang

Title: Associate Professor

Affiliation: DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada

Email: khuang@mcmaster.ca

Research fields:

Discrete Optimization

Inventory

Location

Logistics, Transportation Warehousing and Maintenance

Supply Chain Management

Operations Research in Nonprofit Organization

Qualifications:

• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States

Ph.D. in Systems and Industrial Engineering, School of Systems and Industrial Engineering, August 2005.

• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

M.Sc. in Automatic Control Engineering, Department of Automation, June 2000.

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

B.Sc. in Automatic Control Engineering, Department of Automatic Control Engineering, July 1997.

Publications:

1. Shouyao Xiong, Yuanyuan Feng, Kai Huang. “Optimal MTS and MTO hybrid production system for a single product under the cap-and-trade environment”. Sustainability, 12(6), 2426, 2020.

2. Jie Chu, Kai Huang*, “Integrating decisions with advance supply information in an Assemble-To-Order system”, Naval Research Logistics, 67(1): 34-44, 2020.

3. Majid Taghavi, Kai Huang*, “A Lagrangian relaxation approach for stochastic network capacity expansion with budget constraints”, Annals of Operations Research, 284(2): 605-621, 2020.

4. Jie Chu, Kai Huang*, Aurelie Thiele, “A robust optimization approach to model supply and demand uncertainties in inventory systems”, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 70(11): 1885-1899, 2019.

5. Kai Huang, Rezvan Rafiei*, “Equitable last mile distribution in emergency response”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 127: 887-900, 2019.

6. Bailin Wang*, Kai Huang, Tieke Li, “Two-stage hybrid flowshop scheduling with simultaneous processing machines”, Journal of Scheduling, 21(4): 387-411, 2018.

7. Jun Zhang*, Xuping Wang, Kai Huang, “On-line scheduling of order picking and delivery with multiple zones limited vehicle capacity”, OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science, 79: 104-115, 2018.

8. Antoine Deza, Kai Huang*, Hongfeng Liang, Xiao Jiao Wang, “On component commonality for a periodic review Assemble-To-Order system”, Annals of Operations Research, 265(1): 29-46, 2018.

9. Bailin Wang*, Kai Huang, Tieke Li, “Permutation flowshop scheduling with time lag constraints and makespan criterion”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 120: 1-14, 2018.

10. Antoine Deza, Kai Huang, Michael Metel*, “Managing losses in exotic horse race wagering”, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 69(3): 1-7, 2018.

11. Ming Zhao, Kai Huang, Bo Zeng*, “A polyhedral study on chance constrained program with random right-hand side”, Mathematical Programming, 166(1-2): 19-64, 2017.

12. Majid Taghavi, Kai Huang*, “A multi-stage stochastic programming approach for network capacity expansion with multiple sources of capacity”, Naval Research Logistics, 63(8): 600-614, 2016.

13. Kai Huang*, Pavlos Kanaroglou, Xiaozhou Zhang, “The design of electric vehicle charging network”, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 49: 1-17, 2016.

14. Dan Li, Kai Huang*, “Truck Loading with Weight Balancing Considerations”, International Journal of Operational Research, 26(4): 383-397, 2016.

15. Jun Zhang, Xuping Wang*, Kai Huang, “Integrated on-line scheduling of order batching and delivery under B2C e-commerce”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 94: 280-289, 2016.

16. Kai Huang*, Ton de Kok, “Optimal FCFS allocation rules for periodic-review Assemble-To-Order systems”, Naval Research Logistics, 62(2): 158-169, 2015.

17. Antoine Deza, Kai Huang*, Michael Metel, “Chance-constrained optimization for targeted Internet advertising”, OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science, 53: 90-96, 2015.

18. Kai Huang*, Yiping Jiang, Yufei Yuan, Lindu Zhao, “Modeling the objectives of humanitarian logistics in response to large-scale disasters”, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 75: 1-17, 2015.

19. Kai Huang*, “Benchmarking Non-First-Come-First-Served component allocation in an Assemble-To-Order system”, Annals of Operations Research, 223(1): 217-237, 2014.

20. Majid Taghavi, Kai Huang*, “Stochastic capacity expansion with multiple sources of capacity”, Operations Research Letters, 42(4): 263-267, 2014.