Prof. Yan received the Wickhan-Skinner Best paper Award from the 2nd World Conference on Production and Operations Management and the Society of Production and Operations Management(POMs). The paper is entitled “Coordination of Supply Chains with Risk-Averse Agents” (POM, Vol. 13, 2004, 135 -149, coauthored with X. Gan and S. Sethi).

Dr. Sitong Tan and Prof. Houmin Yan have won the Best Paper Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) for the focus issue on Operations Engineering of IIE Transactions for 2003-2004. The paper is entitled “Designing an assembly process with stochastic material arrivals,” (IIE Transactions, Vol. 35, 2003, 803-815, coauthored with CY Lee).