Hong Wan

Hong Wan Assistant Professor School of Industrial Engineering Purdue University 315 N. Grant Street, GRIS 256 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2023 Phone: 765-494-7523 Fax: 765-494-1299 E-Mail: hwan [at] purdue [dot] edu Affiliation:  SEED center at Naval Postgraduate School.

Table of Contents (CV in PDF format)

1. Research Interest
2. Education
3. Award
4. Teaching
5. Publication
6. Conference Presentation and Posters
7. Current Students

Research Interest

• Design and Analysis of Large-scale Computer Simulation Experiments
• Applied Statistics
• Quality Management of Supply Chain
• Quality Control and Reliability Growth
• Healthcare Engineering

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Education

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Dec 2004
• M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Jun 2002
• M.S. in Materials Science, Northwestern University, Jun 2001
• B.S. in Chemistry, with a minor in Economic, Peking University, Jul 1998

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Award

2005                            Winner of the Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 3rd place, 
                                    in 2005 from IIE.

2003                            Winner of the QSR (Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Section)
Best Student Paper Contest at the 2003 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

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Teaching

• IE 330 Probability and Statistics in Engineering II (current!)
• IE 530 Quality Control
• IE 533 Industrial Application of Statistics
• IE 580 Systems Simulation
• IE 680 Advanced Simulation Experiment Design and Analysis Spring 2007

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Publication

Accepted/Published

• Hong Wan, Bruce E. Ankenman and Barry L. Nelson, “Simulation Factor Screening with Controlled Sequential Bifurcation in the Presence of Interactions,” to appear in INFORMS Journal on Computing. 2009.
• Hua Shen, Hong Wan, and Susan M. Sanchez, “The Hybrid Approach for Simulation Factor Screening,” to appear in Naval Research Logistics. 2009.
• Susan M. Sanchez, Hong Wan and Thomas W. Lucas, “A Two-Phase Screening Procedure for Simulation Experiments,”  ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 19(2) Article No. 7.  2009.
• Santanu Chakraborty, Nagi Gebraeel, Mark Lawley and Hong Wan, “Residual-life estimation for components with non-symmetric priors,” IIE Transactions, 41(4)  p372-387. 2009.
• Hua Shen and Hong Wan, “Controlled Sequential Factorial Design for Simulation Factor Screening, ” European Journal of Operational Research 198(2) p511-519. 2009.

• Hong Wan and Xiaowei Xu, “Technical Note: Reexamination of All-or-None Inspection Policies in a Supply Chain with Endogenous Product Quality,” Naval Research Logistics, 55(3), p277-282. 2008.
• Hong Wan and Bruce E. Ankenman, “Two-Stage Controlled Fractional Factorial Screening for Simulation Experiments,” Journal of Quality Technology, 39(2), p126-139. 2007.
• Renata Kopach , Po-Ching DeLaurentis, Mark Lawley, Kumar Muthuraman, Leyla Ozsen,  Ron Rardin, Hong Wan and Deanna Willis, “Effects of Clinical Characteristics on Successful Open Access Scheduling, ” Health Care Management Science, 10(2), p111-124. 2007.  
• Hong Wan, Bruce E. Ankenman and Barry L. Nelson, “Controlled Sequential Bifurcation: A New Factor-Screening Method for Discrete-Event Simulation,” Operations Research, 54(4), p743-755. 2006.

Under Revision

• Hong Wan and Xiaowei Xu, “Bayesian Single Sampling Acceptance Plans in a Supply Chain with Endogeneous Product Quality,” under revision for Operations Research.
• Regine Oh, Susan M. Sanchez, Thomas W. Lucas, Hong Wan, Mark E. Nissen, “Efficient Experimental Design Tools for Exploring Large Simulation Results Spaces,” under revision for Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.
• Jonghyun Ryu, Hong Wan, and Sujin Kim. “Optimal Design of CUSUM Chart for a Random Shift Size,” under revision for Journal of Quality Technology.

Working Papers

• Peng Zeng, Hong Wan, and Yu Zhu, “A Coset Pattern Identity Between a  2^n-p Design and Its Complementary,” submitted to Statistical Sinica.
• Wei-Hsin Feng, Nan Kong, and Hong Wan, “Simulation Study of Organ Delivery System,” submitted to ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.
• Kuo-Hao Chang, Jeff L. Hong and Hong Wan, “Stochastic Trust Region Gradient Method (STRONG)—A New Response-Surface-Based algorithm in Simulation Optimization,” expected submission: Sept. 2009. Targeted journal: INFORMS Journal on Computing. 
• Jingang Liu, John W. Fowler, Hong Wan, and Feng Yang, “Capacity planning through the hybrid of queueing analysis and simulation-based statistical methods: a case study for semiconductor wafer fabs,” expected submission: Sept. 2009. Targeted journal:  International Journal of Production Research.
• Tonglin Zhang, Hong Wan, and Yu Zhu, “Detection and Localization for Spatial Radiation Signal, ” expected submission:  Dec. 2009. Targeted journal: Computational Statistcs and Data Analysis.

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Kuohao Chang and Hong Wan, “Stochastic Trust Region Response Surface Convergent Method for Generally-Distributed Response Surface,” to appear in Proceeding of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, Dec. 13-16th, 2009.
• Susan M. Sanchez and Hong Wan, “Better Than a Petaflop: the Power of Efficient Experimental Design,”  to appear in Proceeding of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, Dec. 13-16th, 2009.
• Jonghyun Ryu, Sujin Kim, and Hong Wan,  “Pareto Front Approximation with Adaptive Weighted Sum Method in Multipbjective Simulation Optimization,” to appear in Proceeding of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, Dec. 13-16th, 2009.
• Kuohao Chang, Jeff L. Hong and Hong Wan, “Stochastic Trust Region Gradient-Free Method (STRONG)-A New Response-Surface-Based algorithm in Simulation Optimization,” Proceeding of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, December 9-12, 2007. P346-354  (Winner of the I-Sim/ACM-SIGSIM Best Student Paper awards at the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference)
• Jun Xu, Feng Yang and Hong Wan,  “Controlled Sequential Bifurcation for Software Reliability Study.” Proceeding of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, December 9-12, 2007. P281-288.

• Hua Shen and Hong Wan, “A Hybrid Method for Simulation Factor Screening”, Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference, December 3-6, 2006. p382-389.

·         Adam Forsyth, Susan Sanchez and Hong Wan, “Exploring Edge Organization Models for Network-Centric Operations,” Proceedings of the 2006 Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, June 20-22, 2006.

• Po-Ching DeLaurentis, Renata Kopach, Ronald Rardin, Mark Lawley, Kumar Muthuraman, Hong Wan, Leyla Ozsen, and Paul Intrevado, “Open Access Appointment Scheduling—An Experience At A Community Clinic,” Proceedings of the  2006 IIE Research Conference, May 20^th-24^th, 2006.
• Xiuli Qu, Ronald L. Rardin, Lisa Tieman, Hong Wan, Julie Ann Stuart Williams, Deanna R. Willis, and Marc B. Rosenman,  “A statistical model for the prediction of patient non-attendance in a primary care clinic,” Proceedings of the  2006 IIE Research Conference, May 20^th-24^th, 2006.
• Hua Shen and Hong Wan, “Controlled Sequential Factorial Design for Simulation Factor Screening,” Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, December 4-7, 2005, p467-474.
• Susan M. Sanchez, Hong Wan and Thomas W. Lucas, “A Two-Phase Screening Procedure for Simulation Experiments,” Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, December 4-7, 2005, p223-230.
• Hong Wan, Bruce E. Ankenman and Barry L. Nelson, “Controlled Sequential Bifurcation: a New Factor-Screening Method for Discrete-Event Simulation,” Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, December 7-10, 2003, p565–573.
• Joseph L. Schofer, Barry L. Nelson, Hong Wan, Ying Yang, and Ronald Eash. “Estimating Vehicle Resource Requirements for Demand-Responsive Transportations Operations,” Proceedings of the Metropolitan Conference on Public Transportation Research (Transport Chicago 2003), June 6, 2003.

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Selected Conference Presentation and Posters

• Kuo-Hao Chang and Hong Wan. "“STRONG: a Design-of-experiment-based Simulation Optimization Framework,” 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 11-15. (invited) .
• Hong Wan. "“Design of Experiments for Simulation Optimization,” 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 11-15. (invited).
• Kuo-Hao Chang, Jeff L. Hong, and Hong Wan. "STRONG: a DOE-based simulation optimization method", Proceeding of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, December 9-12, 2007.
• Jun Xu, Feng Yang, and Hong Wan. "Controlled Sequential Bifurcation for Software Reliability Study", Proceeding of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, December 9-12, 2007.
• Hua Shen, and Hong Wan. "Hybrid Factor Screening Method for Simulation Experiments", Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference, December 3-6, 2006.
• Adam Forsyth, Susan M. Sanchez, and Hong Wan. "Exploring Edge Organization Models for Network-Centric Operations", Proceedings of the 2006 Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, June 20-22, 2006.
• Po-Ching DeLaurentis, Renata Kopach, Ronald L. Rardin, Mark Lawley, Kumar Muthuraman, Hong Wan, Leyla Ozsen, and Paul Intrevado. "Open Access Appointment Scheduling—An Experience At A Community Clinic", Proceedings of the 2006 IIE Research Conference, May 20-24, 2006.
• Xiuli Qu, Ronald L. Rardin, Lisa Tieman, Hong Wan, Julie Ann Stuart Williams, Deanna R. Willis, and Marc B. Rosenman. "A statistical model for the prediction of patient non-attendance in a primary care clinic", Proceedings of the 2006 IIE Research Conference, May 20-24, 2006.
• Hua Shen, and Hong Wan. "Controlled Sequential Factorial Design for Simulation Factor Screening", Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, December 4-7, 2005.
• Susan M. Sanchez, Hong Wan, and Thomas W. Lucas. "A Two-Phase Screening Procedure for Simulation Experiments", Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, December 4-7, 2005.
• Hong Wan, Bruce E. Ankenman, and Barry L. Nelson. "Controlled Sequential Bifurcation: a New Factor-Screening Method for Discrete-Event Simulation", Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, December 7-10, 2003.
• Joseph L. Schofer, Barry L. Nelson, Hong Wan, Ying Yang, and Ronald Eash. "Estimating Vehicle Resource Requirements for Demand-Responsive Transportations Operations", Proceedings of the Metropolitan Conference on Public Transportation Research (Transport Chicago 2003), June 6, 2003.

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Students

Ph.D. Students:

• Hua Shen,  Ph.D. (2006). Currently working at Bank of America. PhD thesis: "Efficient Factor Screening in Simulation Experiments."
• Kuohao Chang, Ph.D. (2008), Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) Ph.D. thesis: “Stochastic Trust Region Response Surface Convergent Method for Continuous Simulation Optimization.”  He received the 2007 INFORMS Bonder Scholarship in Military Operations Research. 
• Wen-Hsin Feng, (co-advising with Prof. Nan Kong). Ph.D. student, working on a simulation study of healthcare delivery systems.
• Jonghyun Ryu (co-advising with Prof. Sujin Kims), Ph.D. student, working on geometric adaptive CUSUM control charts.
• Anne McLaren (senior engineer at Cummins Inc), part-time Ph.D. student, working on multi-stage integrated reliability growth models.

Masters Student (thesis based):

• Abhijith Mukunda, (co-advised with Prof. Kliein lIeleji), graduated on Jan. 2007, currently working at  Capgemini US LLC. Master thesis title: Simulation Modeling of Transportation Logistics of Corn Stover for Ethanol Conversion.

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