Guoming Lai

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Tom E. Nelson Jr. Regents Professor in Business
 
 Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management
McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin

 

Education:

  • MS, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005, 2009
  • BE, ME, Tsinghua University, 2000, 2003
 

Employment:

  • Tom E. Nelson Jr. Regents Professor in Business (2021-)
  • Professor (2020-)
  • Associate Professor (2015-2020)
  • Assistant Professor (2009-2015)
 

Awards and Honors:

  • Finalist, MSOM/iFORM Best Paper Award, 2019

  • Third Prize, CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2019

  • CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Associate Professors, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin, 2018

  • Honorable Mention, CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2016

  • Supply Chain Department Outstanding Senior Editor, POM, 2016

  • Department Nominee for Research Excellence Award, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin, 2016,2019

  • Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award, POMS, 2015

  • CBA Foundation Fellowship, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin, 2015-

  • Department Nominee for Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin, 2014,2015

  • CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin, 2014

  • Distinguished Service Award, Management Science, 2014

  • Meritorious Service Award, MSOM, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018

  • Meritorious Service Award, Management Science, 2013

  • INFORMS ENRE Section Best Publication Award, 2012

  • Finalist, INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition, 2011

  • Honorable Mention, CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2011

  • First Prize, CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2009

  • William Cooper Dissertation Award, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009

  • Second Prize, MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2008

  • Best Theoretical/Empirical Research Paper Award, DSI, 2008

  • Supply Chain Track Best Paper Award, DSI, 2008

  • William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003-2009

  • First Place, University Entrance Examination, Zhejiang Province, China, 1996

Research Interests:

  • Supply Chain, Business Analytics, OM-Finance/OM-Marketing Interfaces, Platform Economics, Healthcare, Energy and Sustainable Operations

Research Papers:

Book Chapters:

  • Guoming Lai and Wenqiang Xiao. Contracting for Information Acquisition. In Handbook of Information Exchange in Supply Chain Management, Springer Publishing, 2016.
  • Guoming Lai and Wenqiang Xiao. Supply Chain Information Signaling and Capital Market. In Handbook of Information Exchange in Supply Chain Management, Springer Publishing, 2016.
  • Stephen Gilbert, Guoming Lai and Zhuoxin Li. Supplier Encroachment with Asymmetric Information. In Handbook of Research on Distribution Channels, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
  • Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li and Katia Sycara. A General Model for Pareto Optimal Multi-Attribute Negotiations. In Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008.
  • Guoming Lai, Katia Sycara and Cuihong Li. A Decentralized Model for Multi-Attribute Negotiations with Incomplete Information and General Utility Functions. In Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008.
  • Paul Scerri, Elizabeth Liao, Yang Xu, Guoming Lai, Katia Sycara and Mike Lewis. Coordinating Very Large Groups of Wide Area Search Munitions. In Theory and Algorithms for Cooperative Systems, World Scientific Publishing, 2005.

Invited Talks and Conference Presentations:

  • Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 2022.
  • School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, 2021.
  • School of Business, University of California, Riverside, 2020.
  • McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, 2020.
  • Questrom School of Business, Boston University, 2018.
  • Carroll School of Management, Boston College, 2018.
  • Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018.
  • David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2018.
  • School of Business, Hong Kong University, 2017.
  • School of Business, City University of Hong Kong, 2017.
  • School of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2017.
  • School of Management, Zhejiang University, 2017.
  • School of Management, East China University of Science and Technology, 2017.
  • School of Business, Remin University of China, 2016.
  • School of Business, Sichuan University, 2016.
  • School of Business, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 2016.
  • Foster School of Business, University of Washington, 2016.
  • School of Business, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014
  • Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, 2014
  • Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 2014
  • Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, 2013
  • School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2013
  • Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, 2013
  • Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC Chapel Hill, Junior Faculty Research Workshop, 2013
  • Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, 2011
  • School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, 2011
  • School of Business, National University of Singapore, 2011
  • INSEAD, 2011
  • Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 2009
  • McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
  • Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2009
  • Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2009
  • Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, 2009
  • School of Business & Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
  • INFORMS Annual Conference, 2009-2015
  • M&SOM Annual Conference, 2009, 2011
  • CSAMSE Annual Conference, 2009-2015
  • POMS Annual Conference, 2009-2015

Teaching:

  • Strategic Supply Chain Management (4.8, 4.75, 4.5/5.0, etc.)
  • Logistics and Inventory Management (4.91, 4.85, 4.6/5.0, etc.)
  • Pricing and Revenue Management (5.0, 4.58, 4.4/5.0)
  • Operations Management (4.8, 4.7, 4.4/5.0, etc.)
  • Modeling and Optimization in Finance (4.83, 4.6, 4.2/5.0)
  • Topics in Operations/Finance Interface (4.7/5.0)

Professional Services:

  • Senior editor for Production and Operations Management
  • Associate editor for Management Science
  • Associate editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
  • Associate editor for Operations Research Letters
  • Associate editor for The International Journal of Management Science
  • Associate editor for The Journal of Management Science and Engineering
  • Track chair for POMS 2015, POMS 2019, DSI 2016, INFORMS International 2016, INFORMS 2018
  • Judge for 2010-2020 MSOM Student Paper Competition
  • Judge for 2012-2018 CSAMSE Best Paper Competition
  • Judge for 2014-2017 POMS Student Paper Competition
  • Invited session chair for INFORMS 2010-2017, POMS 2012-2015 and CSAMSE 2009-2015
  • Program chair for the 2008-2010 International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations
  • Referee for MS, MSOM, POMS, ORL, EJOR, Decision Analysis, Decision Science, etc.

School Services:

  • IROM department executive committee member (2012-2015, 2017-2019, 2020-2022, 2023-2024)
  • IROM department undergraduate curriculum committee member (2014-2015)
  • IROM faculty sixth year review committee member (2011, 2014, 2017)
  • IROM OM PhD coordinator (2015-2018)
  • IROM supply chain management center academic advisory board (2016-2017)
  • Dissertation co-chair/committee member: Seung-Jae Park (Yonsei Univeristy), Qi Wu (Case Western Reserve University), Zhuoxin Li (Boston College), Abhishek Roy (Temple University), Vishwakant Malladi (Indian School of Business), Yixuan Liu (Purdue University), Chinmoy Mohapatra (BNSF), Sebastian Souyris (RSG Media), Vivek Vasudeva (Turner Broadcasting), Hee Sung Jang.