Yehua Wei | Scholars@Duke

Yehua Wei
Associate Professor of Business Administration

Yehua Wei is an associate professor of business administration in Decision Sciences at Fuqua School of Business. Professor Wei received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT in 2013. He taught Decision Models, Spreadsheet Modeling, and Probability & Statistics across different graduate programs. His research interest lies in the broad area of decisions under uncertainty. Specifically, he studies problems in flexibility design, dynamic resource allocation, vehicle routing, queueing networks, strategic routing, and e-commerce fulfillment. His research has been recognized by several awards, including the George Nicholson Paper Competition, Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice, MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Prize, and MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 2022

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Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013
- B.S., University of Waterloo (Canada) 2008
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Business Adminstration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 2019 - 2022
- Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 2013 - 2016
Recognition
In the News
- JUN 25, 2020 Chicago Booth Review
  
  Ever closer to an optimally cost-efficient assembly-line operation
- JUN 9, 2015 Harvard Business Review
  
  Find the Weak Link in Your Supply Chain
Awards & Honors
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Ledvina, K., H. Qin, D. Simchi-Levi, and Y. Wei. “A New Approach for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand: Combining Route Assignment with Process Flexibility.” Operations Research 70, no. 5 (September 1, 2022): 2655–73. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.2304.
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  - Frazelle, Andrew, Tingliang Huang, and Yehua Wei. “Service Networks with Open Routing and Procedurally Rational Customers,” August 24, 2022.
  - DeValve, Levi, Saša Pekeč, and Yehua Wei. “Approximate Submodularity in Network Design Problems,” June 2, 2022.
  - Shi, C., Y. Wei, and Y. Zhong. “Process flexibility for multiperiod production systems.” Operations Research 67, no. 5 (January 1, 2019): 1300–1320. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2018.1810.
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  - Simchi-Levi, D., H. Wang, and Y. Wei. “Increasing Supply Chain Robustness through Process Flexibility and Inventory.” Production and Operations Management 27, no. 8 (August 1, 2018): 1476–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.12887.
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  - Arlotto, A., A. E. Frazelle, and Y. Wei. “Strategic open routing in service networks (Accepted).” Management Science, 2018.
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  - Arlotto, A., Y. Wei, and X. Xie. “An adaptive O(log n)-optimal policy for the online selection of a monotone subsequence from a random sample.” Random Structures and Algorithms 52, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 41–53. https://doi.org/10.1002/rsa.20728.
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  - Bidkhori, H., D. Simchi-Levi, and Y. Wei. “Analyzing process flexibility: A distribution-free approach with partial expectations.” Operations Research Letters 44, no. 3 (May 1, 2016): 291–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2016.02.008.
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  - Désir, A., V. Goyal, Y. Wei, and J. Zhang. “Sparse process flexibility designs: Is the long chain really optimal?” Operations Research 64, no. 2 (March 1, 2016): 416–31. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2016.1482.
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  - Elmachtoub, Adam N., Yehua Wei, and Yeqing Zhou. “Retailing with Opaque Products,” September 11, 2015.
  - Simchi-Levi, D., W. Schmidt, Y. Wei, P. Y. Zhang, K. Combs, Y. Ge, O. Gusikhin, M. Sanders, and D. Zhang. “Identifying risks and mitigating disruptions in the automotive supply chain.” Interfaces 45, no. 5 (September 1, 2015): 375–90. https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2015.0804.
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  - Simchi-Levi, D., and Y. Wei. “Worst-case analysis of process flexibility designs.” Operations Research 63, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 166–85. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2014.1334.
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  - Simchi-Levi, D., W. Schmidt, and Y. Wei. “From superstorms to factory fires: Managing unpredictable supply-chain disruptions.” Harvard Business Review, no. JAN-FEB (January 1, 2014).
  - Wagner, D. G., and Y. Wei. “Erratum: A criterion for the half-plane property (Discrete Math. (2008) 309 (1385-1390) 10.1016/j.disc.2008.02.005).” Discrete Mathematics 313, no. 6 (March 28, 2013): 830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2012.11.001.
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  - Simchi-Levi, D., and Y. Wei. “Understanding the performance of the long chain and sparse designs in process flexibility.” Operations Research 60, no. 5 (September 1, 2012): 1125–41. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1120.1081.
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  - Gamarnik, D., D. Shah, and Y. Wei. “Belief propagation for min-cost network flow: Convergence and correctness.” Operations Research 60, no. 2 (March 1, 2012): 410–28. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1110.1025.
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  - Gamarnik, D., D. Shah, and Y. Wei. “Belief propagation for min-cost network flow: Convergence & correctness.” Proceedings of the Annual Acm Siam Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January 1, 2010, 279–92. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611973075.24.
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  - Wagner, D. G., and Y. Wei. “A criterion for the half-plane property.” Discrete Mathematics 309, no. 6 (April 6, 2009): 1385–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2008.02.005.
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- Conference Papers
  - Chen, S., J. S. Song, and Y. Wei. “Data-driven scalable E-commerce transportation network design with unknown flow response.” In Interconnected Supply Chains in an Era of Innovation Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain, Ils 2020, 299–306, 2020.
Teaching & Mentoring
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