Dr Zhen Chen
Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Innovation and Sustainability
- Brunel Business School
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
I am a lecturer in the buesiness school of Brunel University London. Prior to this role, I served as a lecturer at Southwest University, China. I earned my PhD degree in Management Science and Engineering from Beihang University, China. During my academic journey, I had the privilege of being a visiting PhD student and a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh for two separate years.
My primary research in recent years focus lies in cash-flow inventory management, where I leverage mathematical modeling and stochastic programming to address complex challenges. I also did some works in traditional inventory management and routing problems.
Newest selected publications
Chen, Z. and Archibald, TW. (2024) 'Maximizing the survival probability in a cash flow inventory problem with a joint service level constraint'. International Journal of Production Economics, 270. pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0925-5273 Open Access Link
Rossi, R., Chen, Z. and Tarim, SA. (2024) 'On the stochastic inventory problem under order capacity constraints'. European Journal of Operational Research, 312 (2). pp. 541 - 555. ISSN: 0377-2217
Chen, Z. and Zhang, R-Q. (2021) 'A multi-period multi-product stochastic inventory problem with order-based loan'. International Journal of Production Research, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 0020-7543 Open Access Link
Chen, Z. and Zhang, RQ. (2021) 'A cash-constrained dynamic lot-sizing problem with loss of goodwill and credit-based loan'. International Transactions in Operational Research, 28 (5). pp. 2841 - 2866. ISSN: 0969-6016
Chen, Z. and Rossi, R. (2020) 'A dynamic ordering policy for a stochastic inventory problem with cash constraints'. Omega, 102. pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 0305-0483 Open Access Link