Bo Zhang

I am a Research Staff Member in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. You can contact me at bozhang@gatech.edu.

There are three main aspects of my work: (1) developing new analytical tools for understanding real-world complexity and aiding decision-making, (2) conducting applied research, i.e., exploring the utility of existing analytical tools in different practical settings, (3) working with business leaders to help them make more informed decisions.

Some examples of topics that I am working on these days are counterparty risk valuation, asset selling, mechanism design for power systems, resource management, data network management, scheduling in healthcare, design and staffing of service systems, and network reliability.

My research has won the First Place in the 2010 INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition and the Best Student Paper in the 28th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation. Here are links to some articles on my past research: award news, blog on staffing, article on patient flow.

Research Papers (Bibtex)

Reed, J., B. Zhang. (2012) Managing capacity and inventory jointly for large-scale manufacturing systems: square-root rules with refinements. Under revision.
Schorgendorfer, A., P. M. van de Ven, B. Zhang. (2012) Temporal load balancing for distributed backup scheduling. Submitted.
Zhang, X., B. Zhang. (2012) Optimal scheduling of critical peak pricing events with day-ahead wind energy commitments. Submitted.
Zhang, B., B. Zwart. (2012) Fluid models for many-server Markovian queues in a changing environment. Submitted.
Zhang, B., B. Zwart. (2012) Steady-state analysis for multi-server queues under size-interval task assignment in the Quality-Driven regime. Submitted.
Zhang, B., J.S.H. van Leeuwaarden, B. Zwart. (2012) Staffing call centers with impatient customers: refinements to many-server asymptotics. Operations Research, forthcoming.
Zhang, B., H. Ayhan. (2012) Optimal admission control for tandem queues with loss. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, forthcoming.
Zhang, B., S. Borst, M. Reiman. (2010) Optimal server scheduling in hybrid P2P networks. Performance Evaluation, 67(11), 1259-1272.
Zhang, B., P. Murali, M. M. Dessouky, D. Belson. (2009) A mixed integer programming approach for allocating operating room capacity. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60(5), 663-673