June 9, 2005

Chao Receives Distinguished Research Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers

Dr. Chao

Dr. Xiuli Chao, professor of industrial engineering and operations research at North Carolina State University, received the Dr. David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) at the IIE annual conference in Atlanta in May. This award recognizes those who have made “significant contributions to the advancement and progress of the industrial engineering profession through outstanding research activity.”

Chao’s research interests are queueing systems, stochastic scheduling, financial engineering, inventory control and resource allocation in service systems. He is the co-developer of the Lekin Scheduling System, an educational tool, and the co-author of two books, Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services and Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals, and Product Form Solutions. Chao received the Erlang Prize from the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS in 1998 and the Outstanding Overseas Chinese Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2002.

Chao joined the engineering faculty at NC State in 2000. Prior to that he was a professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. From 2000 to 2003 he served as co-director of the graduate program in operations research in the College of Engineering at NC State. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Columbia University in 1989.

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(Photo: Xiuli Chao)

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