FAN Weiwei_Tongji SEM FAN Weiwei

Associate Professor, Advanced Institute of Business

+86 021 65981769

wfan@tongji.edu.cn

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Simulation Optimization, Robust Optimization and their applications in Healthcare Management

Ph.D. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management (2015)
B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, Mathematics (2011)

Sept. 2018 – present, Associate Professor, Advanced Institute of Business (AIB), Tongji University

Sept. 2015 ~ Aug. 2018, Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (Chronological, alphabetical)

Weiwei Fan; , Xuewen Li; , Jun Luo; , Shing Chih Tsai (2025) First-Stage Sampling in Ranking and Selection: Beyond Variance Estimation. Operations Research 0(0).
Cheng, Z., Fan, W., Luo, J. et al. (2024) Indifference-zone-free procedures for constrained selection of the best. Annals of Operations Research.
Zaile Li; , Weiwei Fan; , L. Jeff Hong (2024) The (Surprising) Sample Optimality of Greedy Procedures for Large-Scale Ranking and Selection. Management Science 71(2):1238-1259.
Jeff Hong, Weiwei Fan , Jun Luo. (2021). Review on ranking and selection: A new perspective. Frontiers of Engineering Management. 8, 321–343.
Weiwei Fan, L. Jeff Hong, Xiaowei Zhang (2019) Distributionally Robust Selection of the Best. Management Science 66(1):190-208.
Weiwei Fan, L. Jeff Hong and Barry Nelson. (2016) Indifference-zone-free selection of the best. Operations Research. 64 (6): 1499-1514.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Yuchen Wan, L Jeff Hong, Weiwei Fan. (2023) Upper-Confidence-Bound Procedure for Robust Selection of the Best. Proceedings of the 2023 Winter Simulation Conference, 3647-3656.
Liqiang Cheng, Jun Luo, Weiwei Fan, Yidong Zhang, Yuan Li. (2022) A Deep Q-Network Based on Radial Basis Functions for Multi-Echelon Inventory Management.Proceedings of the 2023 Winter Simulation Conference, 1581-1592.
Kexin Qin, L Jeff Hong, Weiwei Fan. (2022) Non-myopic knowledge gradient policy for ranking and selection.Proceedings of the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference,3051-3062.
Weiwei Fan, L. Jeff Hong. (2014) A new frequentist selection-of-the-best procedure without indifference zone. Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, 3737-3748.
Weiwei Fan, L. Jeff Hong. (2013) Robust selection of the best. Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference, 868-876.

PRESENTATIONS

“Distributionally robust selection of the best”. The INFORMS 2016 International Meeting, Hawaii, USA, 2016.
“A new frequentist selection-of-the-best procedure without indifference zone”. The 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, Savannah, USA, 2014

RESEARCH GRANT

Discrete Simulation Optimization, Young Scientists Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Category B), Principal Investigator, Jan. 2026 - Dec. 2028
Research on Simulation Optimization Methods in Lifecycle-Oriented and Personalized Chronic Disease Health Management, General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Principal Investigator, Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2024
Research on Data-Driven Simulation Optimization Methods for Surgical Scheduling, Young Scientists Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Category C), Principal Investigator, Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2020

Reviewer for Operations Research, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Awards

First Prize, Best student paper competition in the 14th POM-HK International conference.
Finalist, George Nicholson student paper competition in the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
The Second Prize of the 16th Shanghai Outstanding Achievements Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences

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