Hi, this is the home page of Yixin “Iris” Wang (王亦昕). She is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research interests lie in empirical supply chain management and human interactions in operations management. She has worked extensively with large-scale data, examining how supply networks, public policy, and human interactions influence firm performance. She has collaborated with U.S. academic medical centers and conducted experiments with pharmacy retail chains in China to analyze data and develop solutions.

Her research has been published in journals including Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. She has received several paper awards, including the winner of the 2022 M&SOM iFORM SIG Best Paper Award, third place of the 2022 POMS CHOM Best Paper Competition, honorable mention at the 2022 INFORMS BOM Section Best Working Paper Competition, and recognition as a finalist of the 2024 Management Science Best Paper Award in Operations Management.

Experiences

July 2018 –

Assistant Professor, Operations Management @ UIUC

Education

Ph.D., Technology and Operations @ UMich
M.A., Applied Economics @ UMich
B.S., Statistics @ Fudan

CV
iriswang at illinois dot edu
470G Wohlers Hall