Yan Papadakis

Adj. Professor
Executive Master in Techonology ManageMent
papadaki@seas.upenn.edu
UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA
119 TOWNE BUILDING
Philadelphia, PA 19104

215-898-2897

Classes I Teach

EMTM 510: Decision Models

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

EDUCATION

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / PRESENTATIONS / PhD Students

A Refereed Articles

R. Labe and I. S. Papadakis. Propensity Score Matching Applied to Financial Service Analytics. Merrill Lynch Management Science Group Working Paper, 2010.

I. S. Papadakis. Financial performance of supply chains after disruptions: An event study. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 11, 2006.

I. S. Papadakis and P. R. Kleindorfer. Optimizing infrastructure network maintenance when benefits are interdependent. OR Spectrum, 2005.

I. S. Papadakis. On the sensitivity of supply chains for direct configure­-to-­order sales to component market disruptions: An event study. In­ternational Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 33(10):934–950, 2003.

I. S. Papadakis and W. T. Ziemba. Derivative effects of the 1999 earthquake in Taiwan to U.S. personal computer manufacturers. In Paul Kleindor­fer and Murat Sertel, editors, Mitigation and Financing of Earthquake Risks, chapter 8, pages 261–276. Kluwer Academic, 2001.

B Presentations

I. S. Papadakis. Policy Evaluation by Case Matching: Bridging Statistics and Optimization to Uncover Causal Mechanisms. INFORMS Practice Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 2008.

I. S. Papadakis. Risk and Benefit from Operations Research / Management Science Consulting Projects. Annual Meeting of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.

I. S. Papadakis. Supply chain disruption analysis using simulation. Presen­tation at Industrial Simulation Conference, Malaga, Spain, June 2004.

PhD Students

Served in Doctoral Thesis Committees of

Erhan Deniz: “Multi-period scenario generation to support portfolio optimization” (Advisor: Dr. James T. Luxhøj) Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Jiali Liao: “A Discretionary Stopping Problem in Stochastic Control: An Application in Credit Exposure Control” (Advisor: Dr. Avijit Banerjee) Dept. of Decision Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

 


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Computer Literacy

General Computing: Advanced Excel (VBA, Optimization, Database Interface, Complex Calculations), C/C++, PERL, Visual Basic, Pascal, Fortran, DHTML (CSS), Javascript, MS ACCESS  

Statistics: SAS (Advanced Base SAS : MACRO, SQL, SAS/STAT), MINITAB, EXCEL, R – Splus

Optimization: GAMS (GDX), AMPL, SAS / OR, MATLAB, MAPLE, EXCEL-Solver

Data Mining: CART, R (tree, rpart), SAS Enterprise Miner

Simulation: Crystal Ball, @Risk, ARENA, C/C++, SAS, Various Monte Carlo Platforms


PERSONAL