Graduate Students
Dear Prospective PhD Applicants:
Please note that I will not be supervising new PhD students in the 2023-2024 academic year...
I have been receiving a large number of emails (many dozens each week) from prospective candidates regarding their eligibility. I am sorry but I may not be able to respond to such emails.
You can visit the following link about application procedures to our PhD program.
https://phd.degroote.mcmaster.ca/apply/application-procedure/
Current
Ms. Fatima Ulubayova: September 2021. Co-supervised with Dr. Yun Zhou. Proposal defended on 2022-02-14.
Mr. Amin Shahmardan: September 2019. Co-supervised with Dr. Yun Zhou. Proposal defended on 2022-07.
Graduated
Dr. Armagan Ozbilge: Tenure-track assistant professor at the Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University (Effective July 1, 2023)
- Co-supervised with Dr. Elkafi Hassini effective January 2019.
- Thesis title: "Pricing, Returns, and Donations in Single- and Dual-Channel Retailing."
- Thesis defence date: 2021-10-13
Dr. Liufang (Sophia) Yao, Tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Prince Edward Island (Faculty of Business).
- Thesis title: ``Three Essays on Product Recall Decision Optimization''
- Thesis defense: August 10, 2017.
Dr. Laura Wagner, Tenure-track assistant professor at Catolica-Lisbon University starting in September 2017.
Dr. Hangfei Guo, Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) of Supply Chain Management at Queen's Business School (Belfast, UK) and the Director of Certificate and Diploma Programmes at the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute at QUB.
- Thesis title: ``Optimal Ordering Decision and Incentives for Yield Improvement under Random Demand''
- Thesis defense: September 4, 2015.
Dr. Behrouz Bakhtiari,
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
- Thesis title: ``GAME THEORETICAL MODELS OF COMPETITION IN TIME-SENSITIVE MARKETS''
- Thesis defense: December 2, 2013
- Behrouz published a book on OM in 2021. His dedication. Thanks, Behrouz!
Dr. Sandy Wu,
Senior Analyst, Model Development, TD Securities, Toronto
- Thesis title: ``Contributions to Reverse Logistics with
Game-Theoretic Applications.''
- Thesis defense: March 27, 2012
Dr. Jingpu Song, Associate Professor,
Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, P.R.C.
- Thesis title:
"Game Theoretic Revenue
Management Models for Hotel Room Inventory Control", DeGroote School
of Business, McMaster University
- Thesis defense: June 1, 2007
Dr. Mingming Leng, Chair Professor and Dean, Faculty of Business, and Professor of Operations Management, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Here's some information about Mingming's current administrative position:
- Thesis title: "Competition
and Cooperation in Supply Chains: Game-Theoretic Models." DeGroote School
of Business, McMaster University
- Thesis defense: August 15,
2005.
Dr. Sila Cetinkaya, Cecil H. Green Professor of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems (EMIS), & Courtesy appointment in Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
- Thesis Title: ''Myopic Policies
for Inventory Control,'' Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, McMaster
University.
- Thesis
defense: August 16,
1996.
Dr. Danny Cho, Professor and
Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs, Faculty of Business, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada.
- Thesis Title: ''Analyses of
Optimal Policies for Dynamic Inventory and Maintenance Systems''. Faculty
of Business, McMaster University.
- Thesis defense: May 25, 1992.
Dr. Qinan Wang, Associate Professor, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore.
- Thesis Title: ``Game Theory
Models and Their Applications in Some Inventory Control and New Product
Management Problems ''. Faculty of Business, McMaster University.
- Thesis defense: February 20,
1992
Others
Plus a few other students who decided that pursuing a PhD degree is not for them.
M.B.A.
E. N. M. Wah
Thesis Title: `` Computer
Simulation in Inventory Management for Small Business'', Concordia University,
(1982).
C. H. Lee
Thesis Title: ``An Optimal
Control Approach to the Forest Fire Fighting Problem with Limited Size
Suppression Force'', Concordia University, (1981).