Title：Professor

Discipline: Operations Management

Email ：bchen@udel.edu

Introduction ：

Bintong Chen serves as a professor of Business Administration at University of Delaware. He is also the Director of the Institute for Financial Services Analytics and the Faculty Director for the Ph.D. program in Financial Services Analytics. He received his Ph.D. in operations management/research from the Wharton School.

Education

DOCTOR DEGREE OF DECISION SCIENCE, 1990, University of Pennsylvania

MASTER OF SCIENCE, 1987, University of Pennsylvania

Major Field: system engineering

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, 1985, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Major Field: Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE , 1985, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Major Field: electrical engineering & naval architecture and ocean engineering

Academic Appointments

FACULTY DIRECTOR, Ph.D. Program in Financial Services Analytics, University of Delaware, 2013 –present;

DIRECTOR, Institute for Financial Services Analytics, University of Delaware,2012– present;

PROFESSOR, Business Administration with secondary appointment in Civil and Environmental Engineering,University of Delaware, 2011– present;

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH, Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, 2011-2014;

PROFESSOR, Civil and Environmental Engineering with joint appointment in Business Administration,University of Delaware, 2009-2011;

OVERSEA’S DEAN, the School of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 4/07 – present;

ADJUNCT CHAIR PROFESSOR,Tsinghua University, 2007 – 2010;

PROFESSOR, Department of Management and Operations Research, Washington State University, 2002 – 2006;

ASSOCIATEPROFESSOR, Department of Management and Operations Research, Washington State University, 1996-2002;

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Management and Operations Research, Washington State University, 1990-1996;

VISITING PROFESSOR,Institute of Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark,1997 – 1998;

TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Decision Sciences Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1986 – 1990;

ASSISTANT LECTURER, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1985

Specialty & Achievement

Teaching Interests

He has taught operations management/research related classes at undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. levels.

Research Interests

His research interests include optimization techniques and applied business modeling. He has published in many high quality academic journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Production andOperations Management, Transportation Science, Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journals on Optimization, IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control,and his research work has been widely cited.