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Dr. Haitao Li

Assistant Professor of Logistics and Operations Management, College of Business Administration

Research Fellow, Center for Transportation Studies (CTS)

University of Missouri - St Louis , MO 63121-4400

CCB Office: (314) 516 – 5890

CTS Office: (314) 516 - 7269

Email: lihait@umsl.edu

Degrees Held

PhD, Operations Management, The University of Mississippi, 2005

M.A., Economics, The University of Mississippi, 2002

B.E., International Trade and Aeronautical Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, 2000

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Teaching Interests

Supply Chain Operational Modeling

Management Science

Production and Operations Management

Business Statistics

Research Interests

$Description: Description: Z:\public_html\_themes\indust\indbul1a.gif$	Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP): A well-known scheduling problem that has applications in both manufacturing and service industries.
$Description: Description: Z:\public_html\_themes\indust\indbul1a.gif$	Supply Chain Design: The optimal design of a supply chain including its physical logistics network and configurations at each stage.
$Description: Description: Z:\public_html\_themes\indust\indbul1a.gif$	Metaheuristics: The design and implementation of tabu search to solve challenging combinatorial optimization problems. The problems I have been working on include: Protein Folding Problem (Protein Structure Prediction Problem), Resource Constrained Competitive Bidding, Product Line Optimization Problem.
$Description: Description: Z:\public_html\_themes\indust\indbul1a.gif$	Constraint Programming: The design and implementation of integrated (hybrid) algorithms that combine the complementary strengths of both constraint programming and OR techniques.
$Description: Description: Z:\public_html\_themes\indust\indbul1a.gif$	Stochastic Modeling and Optimization

Awarded Research Grants

· PI, “Models and Algorithms for Stochastic Resource Planning”, sponsored by HP Labs Innovative Research Program, $72,587, from August 2011 to July 2012.

· PI, “Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling under Uncertainty: Models, Algorithms and Applications”, sponsored by the Army Research Office (ARO)

Young Investigator Award, $146,931, September 2010 to August 2013.

· PI, “Optimizing the Project Portfolio Design and Staffing Decisions for Professional Service Enterprises”, sponsored by HP Labs Innovative Research

Program, $32,200, from August 2010 to July 2011.

· PI, “New Models and Algorithms for Stochastic Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling”, sponsored by University Missouri Research Board, $23,800,

June 2010 to May 2011.

· PI, “Constraint Programming Based Algorithms for Stochastic Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problems”, College of Business

Administration Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Missouri – St. Louis, $10,000, from June 1 to August 31, 2009.

· “Applications of Optimization Methodologies to Optimized Skills Bank and MAX-FIT”, U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) Scientific Services Program,

Contract No. W911NF-07-D-0001, $32,000, from May 1 to July 31, 2008.

· “Integrated Modeling and Solution Approach for Optimal Supply Chain Design”, Faculty Summer Research Grant, Troy University, $4,500, from

May 15 to July 31, 2007.

Consulting Experiences

· Research Consultant, Naval Personnel Research Studies and Technology (NPRST), April 2008 to August 2008.

· Research Consultant, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, “Service Analytics: Workforce Optimization”, March 2008 to present.

· Statistical Analysis on the Maximum Price Survey for WIC Vendors in Alabama, February 2007.

· Business Consultant, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA. From June 2005 to December 2005.

· Statistical Analyst, Naval Personnel Research Studies and Technology (NPRST), Millington, TN. From December 2004 to July 2005.

Editorial Board

International Journal of Business Research and Management (IJBRM), Call for paper:

http://cscjournals.org/csc/journals/IJBRM/journal_cfp.php?JCode=IJBRM

Selected Publications

· Li, H. and K. Womer (2012), Optimizing the Supply Chain Configuration for Make-to-Order Manufacturing, to appear in European Journal of Operational Research.

· Santos, C., T. Gonzalez, H. Li, K.-Y. Chen, D. Beyer, S. Biligi, Q. Feng, R. Kumar, S. Jain, R. Ramanujan, and A. Zhang (2011), HP Enterprise Services Uses Optimizaion for Resource Planning, to appear in Interfaces.

· Li, H. and D. Jiang (2011), New Model and Heuristics for Safety Stock Placement in General Acyclic Supply Chain Networks, Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 39, No.7, p1333-1344. (pdf)

· Li, H. and K. Womer (2011), Stochastic Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling and Its Military Applications, MORS Phalanx, March (pdf).

· Li, H. and M. Amini (2011), A Hybrid Optimization Approach to Configure Supply Chain for New Product Diffusion: A Case Study of Multiple-Sourcing Strategy, to appear in International Journal of Production Research. (pdf)

· Amini, M. and H. Li (2011), Supply Chain Configuration for Dynamic Diffusion of New Products: An Integrated Optimization Approach, Omega , Vol. 39, No. 3, p313-322 (pdf)

· Rego, C., H. Li and F. Glover (2009), A Filter-and-Fan Approach to the 2D Lattice Model of the Protein Folding Problem, to appear in Annals of Operations Research. (pdf)

· Li, H. and K. Womer (2009), A Decomposition Approach for Shipboard Manpower Schedulinig, Military Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 3, p1-23. (pdf)

· Li, H. and K. Womer (2009), Scheduling Projects with Multi-Skilled Personnel by a Hybrid MILP/CP Benders Decomposition Algorithm, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 12, No. 3, p281-298. (pdf)

· Li, H. and K. Womer (2008), Modeling the Supply Chain Configuration Problem under Resource Constraints, International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 26, No. 6, p646-654.

· Project Portfolio Design and Staffing at HP, presented at HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, Oct. 2011.

· Stochastic Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling and Its Military Applications, 17th Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Annapolis, MD, Oct. 2011

· Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling under Uncertainty: Models, Algorithms and Applications, Military Operations Research Society Session, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, Nov. 2010

· Constraint Programming Based Hybrid Algorithms for Project Scheduling and Resource Allocation, The First Decision Sciences Workshop of Army Research Office, at United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, June 16 – 17, 2009

· A New Approach to Supply Chain Configuration Optimization: Models, Algorithms and Research Opportunities, presented at Seminar of Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Auburn University, Feb 15, 2008