Education
- Ph.D. Candidate in Management Science, 2021 – present (MPhil-PhD Program)
- School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai
- Advisor: Prof. Xiaole Wu
- Visiting PhD Student, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, Jan – Jul 2026 (host: Prof. Panos Kouvelis)
- B.S. in Management Science, 2017 – 2021
- School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing
- Visiting Student, UC Berkeley Summer Program, Jul – Aug 2019
Research Interests
- Operations Management
- Supply Chain Risk Management
- Financial / Operational Hedging in Operations
- Empirical / Structural Operations Management
Working Papers
Bin, Z., Kouvelis, P., Wu, X., & Xiao, Y. (2025). Integrated Hedging Strategies for Exchange Rate and Commodity Price Risks. SSRN Working Paper No. 5559558. Major revision at Management Science.
Bin, Z., Li, M., Liu, Z., Wu, L., & Wu, X. (2025). Utilization-Dependent Costs, Shock Propagation, and Consolidation in a Multi-Tier Photovoltaic Supply Chain. Working Paper.
Research Projects (Selected)
- Research Assistant, NSFC Major Project “Theoretical Foundations of Supply Chain Resilience and Security”, Fudan University, Jul 2022 – present
- Member, “Capacity, Mergers, and Competition in the Photovoltaic Supply Chain”, China Energy Research Society – Green Supply Chain Committee, Dec 2025 – Apr 2026
Professional Service
- Ad-hoc Reviewer, Naval Research Logistics
Conference Presentations & Invited Talks
Integrated Hedging Strategies for Exchange Rate and Commodity Price Risks
- INFORMS MSOM Annual Conference, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, Jul 2026 (Accepted)
- POMS Annual Conference, Reno, NV, May 2026 (Invited)
- ISCOM (International Symposium on Contemporary Operations Management), Dec 2025
- CSAMSE Annual Meeting, Jul 2025
- Supply Chain Finance & Risk Management Workshop, Olin Business School, WUSTL, May 2025 (Invited)
- POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, Jan 2025
- POMS-China Annual Meeting, Dec 2024
- CSAMSE Annual Meeting, Jul 2024
- POMS-China Annual Meeting, Dec 2023
Utilization-Dependent Costs, Shock Propagation, and Consolidation in a Multi-Tier Photovoltaic Supply Chain
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov 2026
- Supply Chain Finance Workshop, Singapore Management University, May 2026 (Invited)
- POMS Annual Conference, Reno, NV, May 2026 (Invited)
- ISCOM (International Symposium on Contemporary Operations Management), Dec 2025
Teaching Experience
Financial Derivatives (金融衍生工具) — Graduate course, Fudan University, School of Management, Sep 2025
Linear Algebra (线性代数) — Undergraduate course, Fudan University, School of Management, Mar 2022
