Jian “Jay” Yao - UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations ...

Course Description: Capital flows, effect of time and interest rate. Alternatives of project evaluation.
Minimum-cost life and replacement analysis. Uncertainty; preference under risk; decision analysis.
Forward and future contracts. Option pricing.
Teaching assistant, University of California, Fall, 2004
Principle of Engineering Economics (upper-division undergraduate course)
class size: ≈80 students
Teaching assistant, University of California, Fall, 2002
Mathematical Programming (required course for PhD students)
class size: >30 students
Course description: Simplex method; duality theory; sensitivity analysis; convergence; polynomial time
algorithms; network flows models; optimality conditions for non linear optimization problems.
Honors (since 2001)
Student paper contest award, ENRE division, INFORMS, 2004
Participant, Future Academician Colloquium, INFORMS, 2004
Fellow, Summer Institute for Academic and Professional Development, University of California at
Berkeley, 2004 (27 fellows selected from all PhD candidates at UC-Berkeley)
Graduate fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 2002
Professional Service and Affiliation
Member, INFORMS and IEEE
Referee, Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, The Energy Journal, Hawaii
International Conference on System Science
Officer, UC-Berkeley chapter, INFORMS