Hong Wan

Associate Professor

  • Phone: 919.515.3086
  • Office: 4325 Fitts-Woolard Hall
 

 
Hong Wan received her Ph.D. in industrial engineering and management sciences from Northwestern University in 2004. She earned a B.S. in chemistry from Peking University in 1998, an M.S. in materials sciences in 2001 and an M.S. in industrial engineering and management sciences in 2002, both from Northwestern University. Before joining the NC State faculty, she was an associate professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. She also directed the Purdue Blockchain Lab, co-directed the Smart Design Lab, and is part of the SEED Center for Data Farming at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Wan’s research focuses on the areas of data, simulation, and blockchain. On the data side, she concentrates on simulated data and internet data trying to find the algorithm by first analyzing them. For simulation, she wants to focus on the sampling strategy and data analysis. She is the director of the ISE department’s blockchain lab that focuses on studying blockchain as a complex system using simulation, feature selection, game theory, optimization, and other operations research and statistical methods.
 

Research Interests

Wan’s research focuses on the fields of complex simulation modeling, data analysis, and experimental design. Also, simulation and data analysis of the healthcare system, blockchain simulation and analysis, learning-based experimental design and analysis, quality control for nanomanufacturing, and game theory and its application in quality management.
 

Education

DegreeProgramSchoolYear
Ph.D.Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering and Management SciencesNorthwestern University2004
MSIEMSMaster of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management SciencesNorthwestern University2002
MSMSMaster of Science in Materials ScienceNorthwestern University2001
BSCBachelor of Science in ChemistryPeking University1998
 

Honors and Awards

  • 2017 | Featured Paper in IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering
  • 2014 | Best Student Paper Finalist Award (2nd place), QSR
  • 2013 | Military Application Society Koopman Prize, INFORMS
  • 2007 | Best Student Paper Awards, I-Sim/ACM-SIGSIM
  • 2005 | Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award – 3rd Place, IISE
  • 2003 | Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Section Best Student Paper Award

 

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Publications

Bonferroni-Free and Indifference-Zone-Flexible Sequential Elimination Procedures for Ranking and Selection
Wang, W., Wan, H., & Chen, Xi. (2023, April 11), OPERATIONS RESEARCH. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2023.2447
BLOCKCHAIN: A REVIEW FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF OPERATIONS RESEARCHERS
Wan, H., Li, K., & Huang, Y. (2022), 2022 WINTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE (WSC), pp. 283–297. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC57314.2022.10015500
A discrete-event simulation model for the Bitcoin blockchain network with strategic miners and mining pool managers
Li, K., Liu, Y., Wan, H., & Huang, Y. (2021), COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH, 134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105365
Machine learning in/for blockchain: Future and challenges
Chen, F., Wan, H., Cai, H., & Cheng, G. (2021, June 5), CANADIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS-REVUE CANADIENNE DE STATISTIQUE. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjs.11623
Social Influence Network Simulation Design Affects Behavior of Aggregated Entropy
Garee, M. J., Wan, H., & Ventresca, M. (2021, July 2), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2021.3092694
BLOCKCHAIN: A REVIEW FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF OPERATIONS RESEARCHERS
Wan, H., Li, K., & Huang, Y. (2020), 2020 WINTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE (WSC), pp. 75–89. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9383924
CAPTURING MINER AND MINING POOL DECISIONS IN A BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK: A TWO-LAYER SIMULATION MODEL
Li, K., Liu, Y., Wan, H., & Zhang, L. (2020), 2020 WINTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE (WSC), pp. 3152–3163. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9383980
WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER: A TUTORIAL ON DESIGNING AND CONDUCTING SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS
Sanchez, S. M., Sanchez, P. J., & Wan, H. (2020), 2020 WINTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE (WSC), pp. 1128–1142. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9384057
Strategic Prosumers: How to Set the Prices in a Tiered Market?
Ghosh, A., Aggarwal, V., & Wan, H. (2019), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, 15(8), 4469–4480. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2018.2889301

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