Yang Shanlin
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Professor, Hefei University of Technology

 

Bio: Yang Shanlin is a professor in the School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and an expert in management science and information system engineering. He also serves as the director of the Academic Committee of Hefei University of Technology.

 

Professor Yang has been engaged in research on intelligent decision-making theory, information system technology, and management system engineering for more than 40 years. He has won two second prizes of China's National Science and Technology Progress Award, six first prizes of Provincial and/or Ministerial Science and Technology Award, and one first prize of Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education. He has published five academic monographs, and more than 400 academic papers in important domestic and international journals and international conferences.

2010 Nobel Laureate in Economics

Regius Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

 

Bio: Christopher Pissarides is the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, the Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus and the IAS Helmut & Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

 

Christopher specialises in the economics of labour markets, monetary and fiscal policy, economic growth and structural change. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University and Peter Diamond of MIT, for his work on markets with frictions. The emphasis of his work has been the labour market and the theory and policy related to unemployment. He has written extensively in professional journals, magazines and the press and his book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory is an influential reference in the economics of unemployment that has been translated into many languages.

Distinguished Professor

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida

 

Bio: Professor Panos M. Pardalos is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. Pardalos has received numerous awards including the University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Doctors (Spain), Foreign Member Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts (Russia).

 

Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing.

Hobart W. Williams Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

 

Bio: John R. Birge is the Hobart W. Williams Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor Birge earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Princeton University in 1977 and a master's degree and a PhD in operations research from Stanford University in 1979 and 1980, respectively. He has worked as a consultant for a variety of firms including the University of Michigan Hospitals, Deutsche Bank, Allstate Insurance Company, and Morgan Stanley, and he uses cases from these experiences in his teaching.

 

Professor Birge's work focuses on application, theory, and computation for decision making under uncertainty with applications in the management of operations in finance, energy, health care, manufacturing, public policy, and transportation. He is an INFORMS Fellow, MSOM Society Distinguished Fellow, member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and Editor-in-Chief of Operations Research.