Yanfeng Ouyang
Assistant Professor

Group:
Transportation
1209 Newmark Civil Engineering Lab
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801

(217)333-9858


Areas of Interest:
Stability and efficiency of transportation systems; transportation and supply network operations, logistics system design, infrastructure system management, transportation safety.

Education:
 
  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2005
  • M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley, 2005 M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 2001
  • B.S. in Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2000
Work Experience:
 
  • Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC, August 2005 -
Professional Honors, Awards, and Recognitions:
 
  • Teacher Ranked as Excellent by Students, UIUC, Fall 2005, Spring 2006
  • Gordon F. Newell Award, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
Selected Courses Taught:
 
  • CEE310 Transportation Engineering
  • CEE598-LSA Logistics Systems Analysis
Selected Publication Titles:
 
  • Ouyang, Y. (in press) “The effect of information sharing on supply chain stability and the bullwhip effect.” European Journal of Operational Research.
  • Ouyang, Y. and Daganzo, C.F. (2006) “Characterization of the bullwhip effect in linear, time-invariant supply chains: some formulae and tests”, Management Science, 52(10): 1544-1556.
  • Ouyang, Y. (in press) “Pavement resurfacing planning on highway networks: A parametric policy iteration approach.” Journal of Infrastructure Systems (ASCE).
  • Ouyang, Y., Lago, A., and Daganzo, C.F. (2006) “Taming the bullwhip effect: from traffic to supply chains”. In: Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains: A Review of Methods, Components, and Cases, Carranza O. et al. (Eds.), Palgrave-MacMilan Series, June 2006.
  • Ouyang, Y. and Daganzo, C.F. (2006) “Counteracting the bullwhip effect with decentralized negotiations and advance demand information”, Physica A, 363(1): 14-23.
  • Ouyang, Y. and Madanat, S. (2006) “An analytical solution for the finite-horizon pavement resurfacing planning problem", Transportation Research Part B, 40(9): 767-778.
  • Ouyang, Y. and Daganzo, C.F. (2006) “Discretization and validation of the continuum approximation scheme for terminal system design”, Transportation Science, 40(1): 89-98.
  • Ouyang, Y. and Madanat, S. (2004) “Optimal scheduling of rehabilitation activities for multiple pavement facilities: Exact and approximate solutions”, Transportation Research Part A, 38(5): 347-365.
  • Ouyang, Y., Shankar, V. and Yamamoto T. (2002) “Modeling the simultaneity in injury causation in multi-vehicle collisions”, Transportation Research Record, 1784: 143-152.

Last Updated: 10/6/2006