IEEE ICAL 2009 Plenary Talk

IEEE ICAL 2009 Plenary Talk #1

Resource Control in Stochastic Processing Networks

Abstract

New models of stochastic networks in supply chain and logistics management often involve features that are beyond the capabilities of classical tools in control theory and operations research. These include, for example, simultaneous resource occupancy, sharing of service capacities, and the real-time resource allocation among different job classes. These features are widely present in applications ranging from internet and web servers to assemble-to-order and revenue management systems. We overview some of the recently developed methodologies and applications in this area, focusing on performance analysis, limiting regimes and asymptotic optimality.

Biography

David Yao has been on the faculty of Columbia University since his PhD in 1983, where he rose to full professorship in 1988 and was appointed to the Edison Chair in 1992. He has also held academic and professional appointments at Harvard, Yale, Tsinghua, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

He is an IEEE Fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, and a recipient of honors and awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship; the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Franz Edelman Award from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences; the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; and from IBM, the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, Research Division Award, Invention Achievement Award, and the IBM Faculty Award.
Author/co-author of over 180 refereed publications, three books and five edited volumes, he has been a principal investigator of over thirty research grants and contracts from government and industrial sources. He is also a holder of six U.S. patents in manufacturing operations and supply-chain logistics.