Associate Professor
Phone:  973-596-3658
Email:  jian.yang@njit.edu
Website:  web.njit.edu/~yang
Dept.: Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
Room:  2514, Guttenberg Information Technologies Center

Education

PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Areas of Research

Application of combinatorial optimization to production planning and logistics problems.Application of stochastic dynamic programming and other probabilistic methods to inventory control problems. Application of game theory, statistics, simulation, and other tools to real-world problems emerging from e-commerce, transportation, etc.

Selected Publications

Yang, J. and J. Y-T. Leung. 2003. The Ordered Open-end Bin Packing Problem. Operations Research 51, pp. 759-770

Golany, B., Y. Xia, J. Yang, and G. Yu. 2002. An Interactive Goal Programming Procedure for Operational Recovery Problems. Optimization and Engineering 3, pp. 109-127

Yang, J. and G. Yu. 2002. Some New Dynamic Economic Lot Sizing Models. Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B: Applications & Algorithms 9:1, pp. 403-419

Yang, J. and G. Yu. 2002. On the Robust Single Machine Scheduling Problem. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 6:2, pp. 18-33

Golany, B., J. Yang, and G. Yu. 2001. Economic Lot-sizing with Remanufacturing Options. IIE Transactions 33:11, pp. 995-1003

Yang, J., P. Jaillet, and H. Mahmassani. 1999. On-line Algorithms for Truck Fleet Assignment and Scheduling under Real-time Information. Transportation Research Record 1667, pp. 107-113

Yu, G. and J. Yang. 1998. On the Robust Shortest Path Problem. Computers and Operations Research 25:6, pp. 457-468

Books 

Qi, X., J. Yang, and G. Yu. 2004. Scheduling Problems in the Airline Industry. In Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and Performance Analysis, Joseph Y-T. Leung (Ed.), CRC Press, Boca Ratan, FL

Yu, G. and J. Yang. 1998. Optimization Applications in the Airline Industry. In Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization, D.-Z. Du and P.M. Pardalos (Eds.), pp. 635-726, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell , MA