Guoming Lai (来国明)

Ph.D. candidate
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213

Office phone: 1-412-268-4627
Fax:  1-412-268-5569
Email: guomingl@andrew.cmu.edu

 

 

Education

  • Ph.D. in Operations Management, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003-
  • M.S. in Industrial Administration, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005.
  • M.S. in Control Theory and Control Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China, 2003.
  • B.S. in Automation, School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China, 2000.

 

Research Interests

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Operations/Finance Interface
  • Operations/Marketing Interface
  • Multiagent Systems and Automated Negotiation

Research Papers

  • “Dynamic Asset Allocation with Resource Consumption and Security Investment.” in progress, 2008.
  • “Optimal Facility Investment and Production with Capital Constraint and Bond Valuation.” in progress, 2008.
  • “Stock Market Pressure, Signaling and Optimal Investment Incentives.” round draft stage, 2008.
  • “Sharing Inventory Risk in Supply Chain: the Implication of Financial Constraint.” with Laurens Debo and Katia Sycara, working paper, 2007.
  • “Buy Now and Match Later: the Impact of Posterior Price Matching on Profit with Strategic Consumers.” with Laurens Debo and Katia Sycara, working paper, 2007.
  • “A Pie or a Pitfall: an Analysis of Price Matching Policy.” with Laurens Debo, Cuihong Li and Katia Sycara. To paper, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Application, 2007.
  • “A Generic Framework for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiations.” with Katia Sycara, To appear, Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation, 2007.
  • “A Decentralized Model for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiations with Incomplete Information and General Utility Functions.” with Cuihong Li and Katia Sycara. To appear, Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems.
  • “Efficient Multi-attribute Negotiation with Incomplete Information.” with Cuihong Li and Katia Sycara. In Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation. 15 (5), 511-528, 2006.
  • “Bilateral Negotiation with Outside Options.” with Cuihong Li and Katia Sycara. Technical Report, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004.
  • “Modeling Multi-attribute Negotiations in the Navy Detailing Process.” with Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara and J.A. Giampapa. Technical Report, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004.
  • “Literature Review on Multi-attribute Negotiations.” with Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara and J.A. Giampapa. Technical Report, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004.
  • “A Study of Workflow Management in Agile Supply Chain.” with Yueting Chai and Yi Liu. In Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications (in Chinese), 38 (8), 2002.
  • “The Partner Inventory Management in Supply Chain.” with Chunhua Tian, Yueting Chai and Yi Liu. In Journal of Computer Integration Manufacturing System-CIMS (in Chinese), 8 (7), 2002.

 

  • “Coordinating Very Large Groups of Wide Area Search Munitions.” with Paul Scerri, Elizabeth Liao, Yang Xu, Michael Lewis and Katia Sycara. In Theory and Algorithms for Cooperative Systems, World Scientific Publishing.
  • “A Pareto Optimal Model for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiations.” with Cuihong Li and Katia Sycara. In Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), 2007.
  • “An Analysis on Price Matching Policy.” with Laurens Debo, Cuihong Li and Katia Sycara. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), 2006.
  • “A Decentralized Model for Multi-attribute Negotiations.” with Cuihong Li and Katia Sycara. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), 2006.
  • “Scaling Teamwork to Very Large Teams.” with Paul Scerri, Yang Xu, Elizabeth Liao and Katia Sycara. In Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), 2004.
  • “An Analysis of Integrated Production-Distribution Process in Agile Supply Chain System.” with Yueting Chai and Yi Liu.  In Proceeding of the 2002 International Conference on Global Supply Chain Management, 2002.
  • “Research of Agile Supply Chain based Enterprises Collaborative System.” with Changrui Ren, Yueting Chai and Yi Liu. In Proceeding of the 2002 International Conference on Control and Automation, 2002.

Graduate Coursework

  • Operations Research: Linear Programming (Prof. Egon Balas), Integer Programming (Prof. Egon Balas), Dynamic Programming (Prof. Alan Scheller-Wolf), Performance Modeling (Queueing Theory; Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter), Graph Theory (Prof. Francois Margot), Network Flow and Matching (Prof. Francois Margot), OM Seminars on Manufacturing (Prof. Sridhar Tayur), Game Theory Topics (Prof. Laurens Debo), Advanced Stochastic Processes (Prof. Alan Scheller-Wolf), Simulation (Prof. Bahar Biller), Revenue Management (Prof. Nicola Secomandi).
  • Computational Finance: Stochastic Calculus for Finance I (Prof. Steve Shreve), Stochastic Calculus for Finance II (Prof. Steve Shreve), Financial Time Series (Prof. Anthony Brockwell), Numerical Methods (Prof. Roy Nicolaides), Options (Prof. Duane Seppi), Studies in Financial Engineering (Prof. Duane Seppi), Credit Derivatives (Prof. Antje Berndt), Dynamic Asset Management (Prof. Javier Pena), Optimization Methods in Finance (Prof. Javier Pena), Statistical Arbitrage (Prof. John Lehoczky), Simulation for Option Pricing (Prof. John Lehoczky).
  • Economics: Microeconomics (Prof. Robert Miller), Econometrics (Prof. Holger Sieg), Game Theory (Prof. Paul Schweinzer), Contract Theory (Prof. Limor Golan).
  • Engineering (selected, In Tsinghua): Probability & Statistics, Stochastic Math Methods, Control Theory, Signal & System Analysis, Combinatorial Mathematics.

Teaching Experience

  • Production and Operations Management (70-371): Instructor; core course for Tepper undergraduate program.
  • Decision Making and Optimization (45-760): Teaching assistant; core course for Tepper MBA program.
  • Optimization Methods in Finance (45-911): Teaching assistant; core course for Tepper MBA program.
  • Options (45-814): Teaching assistant; core course for Tepper MSCF/MBA program.
  • Dynamic Asset Management (45-908): Teaching assistant; core course for Tepper MSCF program.
  • Credit Derivatives (45-903): Teaching assistant; core course for Tepper MSCF program.
  • Statistics and Decision Making (45-731): Teaching assistant; core course for Tepper MBA program.

Industry Experience

  • Summer Intern: Qingsheng Co. Ltd., Zhejiang, China, 2001.
  • Part Time: Zhaoxi S&T Co. Ltd., Beijing, China, 2000.
  • Summer Intern: Siemens Co. Ltd., Beijing, China, 1999.

Honors & Awards

  • William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003 – Present.
  • Motorola Excellent Student Award, Tsinghua University, 2001.
  • Tsinghua Excellent Student Award, Tsinghua University, 1997 – 2000.
  • Ranked 1st place in National University Entrance Exams in Zhejiang Province, China, 1996.

Computer Skills

  • C/C++, Visual Basic, Visual C++, VBA, MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, R, S-Plus, SQL, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Oracle