AWARDS AND HONORS-Outstanding Service Award, Production and Operations Management Society, Houston, 2018
For outstanding service as program committee co-chair of the 9th POMS-HK International Conference,January 2018, presented at the POMS 29th annual conference, May 2018
-Hubert C. Moog Scholar, for Outstanding Performance, Washington University in St. Louis, 2010-2011
-Doctoral Fellowship, Washington University in St Louis
Ranked 2nd among 3500 participants in the national wide university entrance exam for M.S. program in Industrial Engineering, 2003
-Outstanding performance award in System Analysis concentration at IE undergraduate program, 2002-2003
-Member of Iranian Exceptional Talents Program, 2003-present
LIST OF RESEARCH OUTPUTS OR CREATIVE WORKS
Publications (Total 13) Google Scholar Citations: 280
Quality Signaling through Crowdfunding Campaign Pricing.Bolandifar, E., Z. Chen, P. Kouvelis. Forthcoming at Manufacturing and Service Operations Mangement.
Modeling the Behavior of Patients Who Leave the ED Without Being Seen.
Bolandifar, E., N. Dehoratius, T. Olsen, J. Wiler. Forthcoming at European Journal of Operational Research.
Managing Competitive Levers in a Collaborative Distribution Channel.
Bolandifar, E., Z. Chen, K. Zhu. European Journal of Operational Research. 293:1031-1042
Hedging through Index-Based Price Contracts in the Supply Chain.
Bolandifar, E., Z. Chen. OMEGA, The International Journal of Management Science. 90: 1-15
An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Patients Who Leave the Emergency Department Without Being Seen.
Bolandifar, E., N. Dehoratius, T. Olsen, J. Wiler. Journal of Operations Management. 65:430–446
Simple Contracts to Assure Supply under Noncontractible Capacity and Asymmetric Cost Information.
Bolandifar, E., T. Feng, F. Zhang. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 20(2):217-231
Delegation versus Control in Supply Chain Procurement under Competition.
Bolandifar, E., P. Kouvelis, F. Zhang. Production and Operations Management. 25(9): 1528-1541
Hedging Commodity Procurement in a Bilateral Supply Chain.
Turcic, D., P. Kouvelis, E. Bolandifar. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 17(2):221-235
An Emergency Department Patient Flow Model Based on Queueing Theory Principles.
Wiler, J., E. Bolandifar, R. Griffey, R. Poirier, T. Olsen. Academic Emergency Medicine, 20(9): 939-946
Modeling the Optimal Long Run Investment Strategies of Hybrid Wind-Thermal Firm in the Restructured Power Market.
Askari, M., A. Zainal Abdin, M. Tahmasbi, E. Bolandifar. Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy,7(5):1267-1279
Component Procurement Strategy in TRIAD Competitive Supply Chains.
Sedehi, M.S., A. Makui, E. Bolandifar. International Journal of Industrial Engineering & Production
Research, 29(4):443-460
Integration of Dynamic Pricing and Overselling with Opportunistic Cancellation.
Modarres, M., E. Bolandifar. Iranian Journal of Operations Research, 1 (1), 74-93, Fall 2009
Dynamic Pricing with Periodic Review and a Finite Set of Prices with Cancellation.
Modarres, M., E. Bolandifar. Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 3(3): 213-226, Fall 2009
Conference papers
The Optimal Hedging Strategy for Commodity Processors in Supply Chain.Bolandifar, E., Z. Chen. Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Applications. 2015 pp 27-34.
Evaluation of FIT Impacts on Market Clearing Price in the Restructured Power Market.
Askari, M.T., M.Z.A. Kadir, E. Bolandifar. Proceedings of IEEE SCOReD Conference. 2015 pp 224-227
Hedging Commodity Procurement in a Bilateral Supply Chain,
Bolandifar, E., P. Kouvelis, D. Turcic. Proceedings of the 2014 M&SOM Society Conference.
An Empirical Study of Reneging Behavior of Patients in an Emergency Department.
Bolandifar, E., N. Dehoratius, T. Olsen. Proceedings of the 2014 M&SOM Society Conference.
Why Risk-Neutral Manufacturers Ought to Hedge Commodity Material Purchases.
Bolandifar, E., P. Kouvelis, D. Turcic. Proceedings of the 2011 M&SOM Society Conference.
Book Chapter
An Approach for Modeling the Deregulated Power Market Based on Cournot Game Theory.Askari, M.T., M.Z.A. Kadir, E. Bolandifar. Sustainability Modeling in Engineering. Springer. Forthcoming
Book Reviews
Ad hoc reviewer: “Handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains”, byP. Kouvelis, L. Dong, O. Boyabatli, and R. Li, Wiley, 2010.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Competitive Grants (Total:1)Principal Investigator, GRF, HK$202207
General Research Fund, 2013/2016
Project Title: “Component Procurement in a Competitive Market”
-This project has resulted in two publications, out of which one is an A journal.
-The project is an attempt to investigate the OEM manufacturer’s incentives to control component
procurement of their contract manufacturers in competitive markets.
Non-Competitive Grants (Total:3)
Principal Investigator, “An Empirical Analysis of Patients Who Leave Without Being Seen”
CUHK Research Committee Funding Direct Grants, 2013/2015, HK$50000.
-This project has resulted in one A publication and another potentially A publication under review.
Principal Investigator, “Bilateral Negotiations in Supply Chain Procurement”
CUHK Research Committee Funding Direct Grants, 2015/2016, HK$50000.
-This project has resulted in one publication.
Principal Investigator, “Store Brand Procurement in Asymmetric Retail Channels”
CUHK Research Committee Funding Direct Grants, 2018/2019, HK$50000.
-This project has resulted in one research paper, under review at an A journal.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIESINFORMS, since 2008-present
MSOM, since 2009-present
POMS, since 2011-present
INFORMS Healthcare, 2017-present
IEOM, since 2018-present
INVITED PRESENTATIONS/ LECTURES
Quality Signaling through Crowdfunding Campaign Pricing-Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2021
-INFORMS national meeting, Anaheim, California, 2021
-CSAMSE conference, Shanghai, China, 2021
-Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2021
-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2021
Modeling the Behavior of Patients Who Leave the ED without Being Seen
-Asian Europe Business School, Shanghai, China, 2021
- POM-HK annual conference, Hong Kong, 2020
Managing Competitive Levers in a Collaborative Distribution Channel
-INFORMS International Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018
- National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2017
Quality Signaling through Crowdfunding Campaign Design
- POM-HK annual conference, Hong Kong, 2020
- MSOM conference, Singapore, 2019
- IEOM conference, Bangkok, 2019,
- POM-HK annual conference, Hong Kong, 2018
On-demand Service Platforms: Ride-hailing Platforms and Competition
- International Industrial Engineering Conference, Iran, 2018.
An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Patients Who Leave the ED without Being Seen
- Chinese Economics Annual Conference, Shenzhen, China, 2020
- Peking University HSBC Business School, Shenzhen, China, 2018
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2018
- Zhejiang University, China, 2018
- INFORMS healthcare meeting, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2017
When Higher Efficiency Hurts: Store Brand Procurement in Asymmetric Retail Channels
- INFORMS national meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, 2016
- National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2016
Single Contract to Assure Supply: Non-contractible Capacity and Asymmetric Cost Information
- INFORMS national meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, 2016
Delegation versus Control in Supply Chain Procurement
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, 2015
The Optimal Hedging Strategy for Commodity Processors in Supply Chai.
- INFORMS national meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, 2016
- MSOM annual conference, Toronto, 2015
An Empirical Study of Reneging Behavior of Patients in an Emergency Department
- International Conference of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran, 2017
- Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2013
- MSOM, SIG in Healthcare Management, INSEAD, 2013
- INFORMS national meeting, Charlotte, NC, 2011
Why Risk-Neutral Manufacturers Ought to Hedge Commodity Material Purchases
- National Chengchi University, Taiwan, 2014
- National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2012
- Singapore Management University, Singapore, 2012
- California State University in Fullerton, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
- Honk Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2012
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2012
- POMS national meeting, Reno, NV, 2011
- INFORMS national meeting, Charlotte, NC, 2011
- University of Missouri in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 2011
- INFORMS national meeting, Austin, Texas, 2010
Supply Contracting under Asymmetric Information and Different Compliance Regime
- INFORMS national meeting, Austin, Texas, 2010
Modeling Reneging from an Emergency Department using Queueing Theory
- INFORMS national meeting, San Diego, California, 2009
KEYNOTE SPEECHES/ DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
International Conference of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran,14/09/2016.International Industrial Engineering Conference, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran,07/02/2018.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
2019: Judge, Student Paper Competition, POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, 2020.2018: Co-chair, Program Committee, POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, 2018.
2015: Judge, Student Paper Competition, POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, 2016.
2013: Judge, Student Paper Competition, POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, 2014.
2012: Judge, Student Paper Competition, POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, 2013.
POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
Graduated PhD studentsCo-Supervisor, Zhong Chen, 2012-2017, Ph.D.; Thesis Title: “Three Essays on Operations Management Interfaces with Marketing and Finance”. Assistant professor at East China Normal University.
INTERNAL SERVICE
DepartmentPhD and MPhil program admission committee, 09/2015-08/2016
MSc in Business Analytics committee member, 09/2014-09/2019
Department seminar coordinator, 09/2014-09/2019
Faculty
MiM program committee member, 10/2016-9/2017
Elected Faculty Board, 09/2017-09/2019
EXTERNAL SERVICE
Associate director of Asian Institute for supply chain and logistics, 09/2013-10/2019External examiner for BBA-SCM Program. Department of Supply Chain and Information Management. Hang Seng University, 08/2017-08/2019.
Reviewer at:
-Management Science
-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
-Journal of Operations Management
-Production and Operations Management
-European Journal of Operational Research
-Naval Research Logistics
-Operations Research Society
-International Journal of Production Economics
-Omega, The International Journal of Management Science
-IISE Transaction
-Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research
-IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
