
School of Management, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
Position: Associate Professor, Doctor
Research Interests: Reverse Logistics, Inventory Management, Decision Support Systems
Contact Information: School of Management, Wuhan Textile University, No. 1, Rongcheng Road, Jiangxia District, Wuhan 430200, China
Email: 632648182@qq.com
Educational Background:
• Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Information and Technology, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
• Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering, Institute of Systems Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
• Ph.D. in Operations Research, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Work Experience:
•Associate Professor, School of Management, Wuhan Textile University
Mainly engaged in teaching and research work in the fields of operations management and logistics management.
•Research Associate, Nanyang Technological University
One and a half years of research experience, involving project development and data analysis in the field of operations research, laying a practical foundation for subsequent academic research.
Teaching Experience:
Undertake the teaching tasks of undergraduate and graduate courses, focusing on combining theoretical knowledge with practical cases to cultivate students' analytical and problem-solving abilities. The main courses taught include:
•Logistics System Analysis
•Operations Management
•Operations and Quality Management in Manufacturing and Service Industries
•Statistical and Quantitative Methods
Graduate Students:
•2017-2019, international students, Khen Alexsandra
• 2018-2020 Zhaokun He
• 2016-2018, MBA, LingYan Feng
Research Achievements:
Academic Papers
S. Viswanathan*, Yan Feng. Forecasting of Service Arrivals in a Repair Center. IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Edmonton, Canada, August 2005.
Yan Feng, S. Viswanathan*. The Impact of Demand Uncertainty on Coordinating Supply Chain Inventories. APORS Conference, Manila, Philippines, January 2006.
Yan Feng, S. Viswanathan*. Impact of Demand Uncertainty on Coordinating Supply Chain Inventories through Common Replenishment Epochs. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58, 964-971.
Yan Feng, S. Viswanathan*. A New Lotsizing Heuristic for Manufacturing Systems with Product Recovery. Presented at 15th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, 2008.
Feng, Y., & Viswanathan, S. A New Lotsizing Heuristic for Manufacturing Systems with Product Recovery. International Journal of Production Economics, 133(1): 432-438.
Geoff Chua, Yan Feng, S. Viswanathan*. Near optimal algorithms for a class of policies for the stochastic inventory problem with remanufacturing. MSOM Annual Conference, New York, USA, July 2012.
Geoff Chua, Yan Feng, S. Viswanathan*. On (r, Q) policies in continuous review inventory systems with remanufacturing and setup costs. POMS Annual Conference, Chicago, USA, April 2012.
Geoff Chua, Yan Feng, S. Viswanathan*. On the effectiveness of (r, Q) policies in continuous review inventory systems with remanufacturing and setup costs. POMS International Conference, Hong Kong, January 2012.
Feng, Y., & Viswanathan, S. Heuristics with Guaranteed Performance Bounds for a Manufacturing System with Product Recovery. European Journal of Operational Research, 232(2): 322-329.
Zhou,Xing-jian*, Zhou,Xiang, Feng,Yan, Chen,Zhi-jie. A Model of Orders Decision-making Cross Supply Chains Under Cloud Manufacturing. 3rd International Conference on Ecommerce and Contemporary Economic Development (ECED), Xian, PEOPLES R CHINA, 2017.4.8-2017.4.9.
Zhaokun He, Yan Feng*. Dual-channel Supply Chain Pricing Strategy Based on Service Sensitive Customers Considering Promotion Service Level. China Collective Economy, 2020.
Feng, Y., Zhou, X. J., Cai, L. H., & Dai, J. S. Research on Digital Logistics Parks' Horizontal Cooperation with Cloud Platform: From the Perspective of Tripartite Evolutionary Game. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 28(3): 245-268.
Chua, G. A., Feng, Y., Senga, J. R. L., & Viswanathan, S. An Efficient Approximation to the Pull Policy for Hybrid Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Systems with Setup Costs.IISE Transactions, na(na): 1-26.
Zhou, X. J., Feng, Y., Chen, H. M., Cai, L. H., & Bashkarev, V. Pricing Strategy of Supply Chain Considering Response Time of Extended Warranty Service. Operations Research Perspectives, 14, 100330.
Research Projects
"Research on Reverse Logistics Inventory Management of Product Remanufacturing Systems" (National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project, Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2018), Project No.: 71501146. The project systematically explored the inventory control mechanism of reverse logistics in remanufacturing systems, and the research results provided theoretical support for enterprise practice.