Zhan Pang

Dr. Pang is Lewis B. Cullman Rising Star Professor of Management at Krannert School of Management and  Purdue Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fellow.   He is the coordinator of the doctoral program in Supply Chain and Operations Management (SCOM) at Krannert.  He is also a committee member of Krannert PhD Program and Purdue Graduate Council.   Prior to joining Purdue, he was associate professor in City University of Hong Kong, senior lecturer in Lancaster University, and adjunct professor in Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) .

His research interests include statistical learning and decision theory, healthcare delivery systems, supply chain risk management, and pricing and revenue management. He is a senior editor for Production and Operations Management  and a founding editor of Journal of Blockchain Research. He teaches Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Strategic Sourcing and Procurement.   He is passionated about experiential education. He formed partnerships with many world-leading corporations and created real-world projects as course projects in the class, which integrated classroom learning and corporate project based experiential learning and allow students to be exposed to the real world challenges and apply what they learn in the class to the real world problems.  Following Purdue and Krannert's vision on educating leaders in data science, he is also striving to introduce various data analytics applications and methods in courses. 

He has rich industry experience as entrepreneur and management consultant. Since he joined Purdue, he has formed research and experiential learning partnership with many corporations including but not limited to Dow Chemical, Corteva and Wabash. He is also working closely with healthcare service organizations including a non-for-profit home healthcare service provider to help them improve efficiency and quality of care and design sustainable business models.  He is serving the board of directors for an energy technology company. As Purdue's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fellow, he serves as a faculty ambassador to help connect Purdue innovators with novel paths for entrepreneurship and commercialization to take the innovations to the world. 

For perspective PhD students: 

I am looking for highly motivated and self-driven PhD students with strong foundations in mathematics and statistics and strong interests in statistical learning and decision optimization with applications in pricing analytics and revenue management,  healthcare delivery systems, and supply chain operations.  Interested students are welcome to get in touch with me and submit your application to the SCOM PhD proram.