Nationality USA Name Christopher Tang | Education Yale University | |
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Born August 10, 1957 (age 66) ( 1957-08-10 ) Hong Kong Institution University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Anderson School of Management Alma mater King's College, London;
Yale University, Yale University Contributions Supply chain management, Retail Operations, Social Innovations Awards INFORMS Lifetime Fellow, 2011; POMS Lifetime Fellow, 2011; UCLA (university-wide) Distinguished Teaching Award, 2012; MSOM Lifetime Fellow, 2015 Fields Operations management, Supply chain management | ||
Background
Christopher Tang is a University Distinguished Professor and the holder of the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration at the UCLA Anderson School of Management at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.Sc. (First class honours) in Mathematics from King's College London in 1981, M.A. in Statistics in 1983, M.Phil in Administrative Science in 1983, and Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1985 from Yale University.
Contents
- Background
- Academic work experience
- Academic community service
- Professional work experience
- Research recognition
- Teaching recognition
- Service recognition
- Books
- Notable research publications
- Notable general publications
- References
Academic work experience
After working at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York (1983-1985), Tang served as a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management since 1985. Between 1998-2002, he was appointed as the Senior Associate Dean and Chaiirman of the faculty at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
From 2000 to 2002, he served as the Senior Adviser to President Shih Choon Fong of the National University of Singapore. Also, from 2002 to 2004, he served as the Dean of NUS Business School and as Cycle and Carriage Chaired Professor of Business Administration at the National University of Singapore. In 2003, he founded the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program, which was ranked #4 in the world by Financial Times in 2014 and was ranked #4 in the world by Economist (magazine) in 2015.
Academic community service
In 2014, Tang served as President of Production and Operations Management Society. He also served on the PhD Fellowship Panel and the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Panel for the Hong Kong University Grant Committee (HKUGC) in (2006) and (2014) as well as other panels at various universities including City University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dalian University of Technology, Nottingham University (China campus), and Strathclyde University (Scotland). In 2012, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Faculty Executive Committee of the Business School at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (term: 2012-2018). In 2015, he was appointed as the Chair of International Advisory Committee of the School of Management at the University of Science and Technology of China (term: 2015-2020). He was appointed as a Visiting Professor at the Judge Business School of Cambridge University (UK) in 2016. In 2017, he was appointed by the President of the McMaster University (Canada) as the Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor. Also, he was appointed as a Distinguished Honored Professor of the school of management, Fudan University in China (term: 2017 - 2020).
Since 1991, Tang has served as Guest Editors, Departmental Editors, Senior Editors, or Associate Editors for 17 top research journals including: Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, and Journal of Operations Management. Also, he was the founding chair of George Dantzig Prize (INFORMS) in 1993, and served as chair or as committee members various research award committees for The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences INFORMS and Production and Operations Management Society POMS.
Tang was appointed to be the founding editor of Springer Series in Supply Chain Management since 2014. In 2015, he was elected as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Professional work experience
Tang served as an independent consultant for various companies including IBM (Poughkeepsie and Yorktown Heights (New York), San Jose (California), Vimercarte (Italy), Hewlett Packard (Palo Alto and Roseville (California), Boise (Idaho), Seoul (Korea), Singapore), Accenture, Amgen, GKN (United Kingdom), US Federal Reserve Bank, and Nestle (USA). Besides serving as expert witness for various legal cases that involved supply chain issues, he also served as an executive board member for Non-Stop Solutions (a start-up firm in San Francisco that offers supply chain solutions to supermarkets—acquired by Manhattan Associates) from 1998 to 2002, and for Asian Pacific Healthcare Venture (a non-profit healthcare group focusing on serving Asians in Southern California) from 2012 to 2014.
Research recognition
Tang has published significant work in 6 academic books, over 130 academic journal articles, and several articles in various newspapers (Wall Street Journal, Financial Times (UK), Fortune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the Guardian (UK), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), and Business Times (Singapore)), UCLA Global Supply Chain Blogs (in English, Chinese and Spanish), and participated various interviews on radio, webcast, and television. His research interests include global supply chain management, retail operations, social innovations, and social responsibility.
Tang is recognized as a leading researcher in Operations Management (ranked as one of the Top 20 most productive researchers over 50 years (1959-2008), ranked as one of the stellar operations management researchers, 2009., ranked as one of the top 10% authors on SSRN (in terms of all-time downloads), and ranked as one the most active researchers publishing in European Journal of Operational Research over 40 years (1977-2017)). In 2017, one of his papers has been recognized by Google as one of the 2006 Google Classic Papers.
Tang was the recipient of the Manufacturing Research Fellowship at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985. From 1996 to 2002, he was appointed as the UCLA James Peters Research Fellow. He was also appointed as a Senior Research Fellow of the Global Supply Chain Forum at Stanford University from 1997 to 1999. In 2014, he and his co-author (Dimitris Andritsos) received the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare, organized by the National University of Singapore (Centre for Health Informatics). In 2016, he and his coauthors (Pengfei Guo, Yulan Wang, and Ming Zhou) received the honorable mention for the Best Paper Competition at the 9th National Conference of the Chinese Scholar Association for Management Science and Engineering, organized by the School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China. In 2017, his joint work with (Jiaru Bai, Rick So, Michael Chen and Hai Wang) received the Supply Chain Management College Student Paper Competition (First Prize).
He was elected as a lifetime fellow of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences INFORMS in 2011, a lifetime fellow of Production and Operations Management Society POMS in 2011., and a lifetime fellow of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society MSOM in 2015 In 2015 and 2016, he was invited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He received the KEDGE "20 years on" Research Prize for Supply Chain Management in 2017.
Teaching recognition
At the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Tang teaches Global Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, and Global Operations Strategy to MBA and Executive MBA students. Also, he has conducted over 20 supply chain training workshops in North America, Brazil, China, Australia, France, Spain, Singapore, South Korea, Germany, Japan and United Kingdom for Accenture from 1995 to 2000. Besides advising doctoral students at the UCLA Anderson School, he also served on doctoral dissertation committees at the Booth School of Business (University of Chicago), Stern School of Business (New York University), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University (China), and Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands).
Besides UCLA, he has taught various MBA/PhD level courses as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge (Judge Business School); Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Polytechnic University (as a distinguished visiting professor at the Business School); Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (business school and the Institute of Advanced Study at HKUST); London Business School; MIT Zaragoza Logistics Center; National University of Singapore (as the Run Run Shaw visiting professor at the School of Computing, and as Cycle & Carriage professor at the Business School); Stanford University (Engineering School); and University of California, Berkeley (Haas Business School).
Tang has won various teaching awards including the CitiBank Best teaching Award in 1996; the Best Instructor for the UCLA Executive MBA program in 1997; Neidorf Best Instructor of the decade in 1999; Teaching Excellence Award for the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program in 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, and 2016. In 2012, he received the UCLA (university-wide) Distinguished Teaching Award.
Service recognition
Tang received the J. Clayton LaForce Faculty Excellent Service Award in 2013, and the Dean's Excellent Service Award in 2014 at the UCLA Anderson School. In 2017, he received the Sushil K. Gupta Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Distinguished Service Award as well as the 2017 INFORMS Volunteer Service Award.