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Biography

Dr. LinDa Li is an assistant professor in Operations Management (Marketing Department) at Missouri State University. He joined MSU on August 2016, and prior to that, he was an Operations Management majored PhD student at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. His research lies in the area of empirical and theoretical stochastic models, with a focus on inventory management. In his research, inventory policies are built and analyzed. While most of his research focuses on inventory theory and its application, his curiosity also covers mathematical programming, dynamic efficiency, stochastic convexity/concavity, rental problem, quality control and the emerging autonomous vehicles.

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Education

• PhD, Operations Management, 2016, The University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa
• MS, Operations Management, 2014, The University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa

Professional experience

Selected publications

• L. Li, D. Miller, C. P. Schmidt. Optimizing Inventory’s Contribution to a Regulated Utility, International Journal of Production Economics, 175 (2016): 132-141
• B. Cobb, L. Li. Bayesian Networks for Statistical Process Control with Attribute Data, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol 45(1), 2019: 104-116
• L. Li, C. P. Schmidt. Joint Replenishment Problem with Dissimilar Items, Decision Sciences, Accepted 2019