Title: Professor, Co-Associate Director
Office: C3-2102 and C2-1509
Biography
Dr. Chan is Professor and Co-Deputy Director of the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University, China. Prior to joining Tsinghua, he served on the faculty of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. Dr. Chan has served as the lead editor of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference, co-editor of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, program chair of the 2013 Industrial and System Engineering Research Conference, editor of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, and associate editor of the IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research. In addition, Dr. Chan has served as program committee for several other international conferences, referee for a number of journals and conference proceedings, panelist for U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and Macau Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT).
Research
Research Expertise and Interest
Methodology:
•Discrete-Event Simulation (DES)
Optimization
•Scheduling
Application:
•Social Networks
•Healthcare
•W. K. V. Chan. “Linear Programming Formulation of Idle Times for Single-Server Discrete-Event Simulation Models.” Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 33(5): 1650038-1:1650038-17, 2016. (SCI, EI)
•W. K. V. Chan. “Generalized Lindley-Type Recursive Representations for Multiple-Server Tandem Queues with Blocking.” ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 20(4): 1-19, 2010. (SCIE, EI)
•W. K. V. Chan and L.W. Schruben. “Mathematical Programming Models of Closed Tandem Queueing Networks.” ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 19(1): 1-27, 2008. (SCIE, EI)
•H. Zhang and W. K. V. Chan. “Mathematical Programming-Based Perturbation Analysis for GI/G/1 Queues.” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference. pp.553-559, Washington D.C., December 9-12, 2007. (EI)
•W. K. V. Chan and L. W. Schruben. “Generating Scheduling Constraints for Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp.568-576, Washington D.C., December 5-8, 2004. (EI)
•L. W. Schruben, T. M. Roeder, W. K. V. Chan, P. Hyden, M. Freimer. “Advanced Event Scheduling Methodology.” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp.159-165, New Orleans, LA, December 7-10, 2003. (EI)
Social Networks:
•W. K. V. Chan. “Agent-Based and Regression Models of Social Influence.” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp.1395-1406, Las Vegas, NV, December 3-6, 2017. (EI)
•W. K. V. Chan and C. Hsu. “When Human Networks Collide: the Degree Distributions of Hyper-Networks?” IIE Transactions, 47(9): 929-942, 2015. (SCI, EI)
•W. K. V. Chan and C. Hsu. “How Hyper-Network Analysis Help Understand Human Networks?” Service Science, 2(4): 270-280, 2010. (SSCI)
•W. K. V. Chan and C. Hsu. “Service Scaling on Hyper-Networks.” Service Science, 1(1): 17-31, 2009. (SSCI)
•W. K. V. Chan and C. Hsu. “A Science of Scaling: Service Hyper-Networks.” Proceedings of the INFORMS International Conference on Service Science, Hong Kong, China, August 6-8, 2009. (EI)
Transportation and Disaster Management:
•W. K. V. Chan and C. L. P. Chen. “Consensus Control with Failure – Wait or Abandon?” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 46(1): 75-84, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2015.2394471. (SCI, EI)
•B. Zhang, W. K. V. Chan, S. Ukkusuri. “On the Modeling of Transportation Evacuation: An Agent-Based Discrete-Event Hybrid-Space Approach.” Journal ofSimulation, 8(4): 259-270, 2014. (SCIE, EI)
•B. Zhang, S. Ukkusuri, W. K. V. Chan. “Agent-Based Modeling for Household Level Hurricane Evacuation.” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp.277802784, Austin, TX, December 13-16, 2009. (EI)
•A. Kuang, Z. Huang, and W. K. V. Chan. “An Analysis on Road Network Capacity Reliability Analysis Based on OD Pair Travel Time Reliability.” International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation, pp.333-337, Changsha, China, October 20-22, 2008.
Healthcare and Service Systems:
•B. Gao, W. K. V. Chan, X. N. Deng, and L. Chi. “On the Size Distribution and Growth Dynamics of Online Stores: A Case of China’s Taobao.com.” Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 17: 161-172, 2016. (SSCI, EI)
•W. K. V. Chan, and B. Gao. “Unfair Consequence of Fair Competition in Service Systems---An Agent-Based and Queueing Approach.” Service Science, 5(3): 249-262, 2013. (SSCI)
•W. Wu, W. K. V. Chan, and L. Chi. “An SDP-Greedy Algorithm for the Key Player Problem.” Proceedings of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, pp. 3815-3824, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 18-22, 2013. (ProQuest)
•W. K. V. Chan. “An Analysis of Emerging Behaviors in Large-Scale Queueing-Based Service Systems Using Agent-Based Simulation.” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp.872-878, Miami, FL, December 7-10, 2008. (EI)
Agent-based Simulation and Distributed Systems:
•Z. Zhou, W. K. V. Chan, and J. Chow. “Bidding Behaviors in Duopoly Electricity Markets with Aspirant Market Share Goals.” Simulation, 89(11): 1369-1387, 2013. (SCIE, EI)
•M. N. Aman, W. K. V. Chan, and B. Sikdar. “'Collision Detection in IEEE 802.11 Networks by Error Vector Magnitude Analysis.” Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, pp.5218-5223, Anaheim, CA, December 3-7, 2012. (EI)
•W. K. V. Chan, Y. Son, and C. M. Macal. “Agent-based Simulation Tutorial.” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp.135-150, Baltimore, MD, December 5-8, 2010. (EI)
•Z. Zhou, W. K. V. Chan, J. Chow, and Serhiy Kotsan. “Impacts of Bidding Behaviors on Power Markets and Electricity Service and Pricing.” Proceedings of the INFORMS International Conference on Service Science, Taipei, Taiwan, July 7-10, 2010. (EI)
•Z. Zhou, W. K. V. Chan, J. Chow, and Serhiy Kotsan. “Duopoly Electricity Markets with Accurate and Inaccurate Market Goals.” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp.1569-1580, Austin, TX, December 13-16, 2009. (EI)
•Z. Zhou, W. K. V. Chan, J. Chow, and Serhiy Kotsan. “An Agent-based Approach for Analyzing and Evaluating Electricity Market Structures.” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Power Systems Operation and Planning, Abuja, Nigeria, December 7-10, 2009.
•W. K. V. Chan, X. Lin, and Q. Gao. “SDL-based Hierarchical Model for Multicasting in PNNI.” International Conference on Communication Technology Proceedings (WCC 2000), pp.1440-1444, August 21-25, 2000. (EI)
•L. Jiang, D. Walczyk, G. Mclntyre, and W. K. V. Chan. “Cost Modeling and Optimization of a Manufacturing System for Mycelium-based Biocomposite Parts.” Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 41: 8-20, 2016. (SCIE, EI)
•W. K. V. Chan, J. Yi, and S. Ding. “Optimal Scheduling of Multi-Cluster Tools with Constant Robot Moving Times, Part I.” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 8(1): 5-16, 2011. (SCI, EI)
•W. K. V. Chan and C. Malmborg. “Monte Carlo Simulation Based Procedures for Solving Block Layout Problems.” European Journal of Industrial Engineering, 5(1), 2011. (SCIE, EI)
•W. K. V. Chan and C. Malmborg. “Monte Carlo Simulation Methods for Dynamic Line Layout Problems with Nonlinear Movement Costs.” European Journal of Industrial Engineering, 4(1):40-58, 2010. (SCIE, EI)
•W. K. V. Chan, J. Yi, S. Ding, and D. Song. “Optimal Scheduling of k-Unit Production of Multi-Cluster Tools with Single-Blade Robots.”Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, pp.335-340, Washington DC, August 23-26, 2008. (EI)
•NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2007.
•George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition, runner up, INFORMS, 2005.
•The Best Paper Award, third place, Service Science Section, INFORMS, 2010.
•The Best Paper Award, finalist, IEEE Conf. on Automation Science and Engineering, 2007
•Faculty Induction in Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society, 2010.
•The Best Graduate Student Instructor Award, Department of IEOR, UC Berkeley, 2004
Teaching
•Discrete-Event Simulation, 86000493, Fall 2018
•Operations Research Methods, Spring 2015
•Complex Systems Modeling for Industrial and Systems Engineers, Spring 2011, 2012, 2013
Opening
Postdoctoral Researcher Position
Two postdoctoral researcher positionsare currently open:one in big-data analytics and the other operations research. The ideal candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in one of the following areas:
•Statistics
•Electrical Engineering
Interested applicants please send a CV to Prof. Chan’s email listed above.
Graduate Student Position
Our group is expanding continuously. We are looking for excellent Ph.D. and Master’s students like YOU!If you meet at least two of the following conditions, you should apply:
1. Strong Math skill
2. Very good at Statistics
3. Taken and did well in advanced courses in Operations Research, Mathematics, and Statistics
4. Conducted projects related to our research areas
5. Have tons of “crazy” academic ideas, and are self-motivated and perseverant
