Xinhui Zhang, Ph.D. 2013 Franz Edelman Finalist from INFORMS Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering Wright State University 234 Russ Engineering Center 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy. Dayton, OH 45435 E-mail: xinhui.zhang@wright.edu Office: 937-775-5151 Fax:    937-775-7364

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          I am an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering at Wright State University, located in Dayton, OH. I obtained my Ph.D. from Operations Research & Industrial Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.

           My research focuses in the area of optimization, especially theory and solution methodology in linear, integer programming and combinatorial optimization.  I am extremely interested in solving practical large scale problems such as those arises manufacturing, logistics, transportation, media and service management and engineering design. Some of my latest projects include a) airline crew scheduling and recovery for airlines, b) advertising allocation for media industry, c) equipment and personnel management for United States Postal Service, d) design and optimization for VLSI testing structure, e) Inventory simulation and optimization, f) logistics and distribution and g) aspects of marketing research;

Over the past few years, I have been involved and led a series of OR projects at Kroger Corp. One of the projects, the Kroger Pharmacy Inventory Simulation and Optimization Project, "has reduced out-of-stocks by 1.5 million prescriptions, lowered inventory by more than $100M, and yielded additional revenue of more than $70M since Oct 2011. " and was selected as one of the six finalists worldwide, with BaoSteel, Chevron, Dell, Delta and McKesson, for the 2013 Franz Edelman Prize.

           Besides these Kroger studies, our research was funded by the General Electric Company, Linear Power Corp.,  Peco II Corp., Rittal Corp.,  David J. Joseph Corp., the United State Postal Service, and Continental Airlines, and the National Science Foundation.