演讲人：Soulaymane Kachani教授

职务：哥伦比亚大学工程学院常务副院长

时间：2017年10月23日 下午4点10分

地点：科学馆 207会议室

演讲内容：

1) Share with the XJTU students the graduate programs’ requirements of Columbia University;

了解申请哥伦比亚大学研究生相关要求

2) Help the participants clarify their goals;

明确读研期间的个人发展目标

3) Understand how to plan their personal growths in academic and professional tracks

学习如何设计个人学术及职业规划

请有意申请哥伦比亚大学研究生项目的广大同学积极参加。

国际合作与交流处

2017/10/17

附：Kachani教授简历

Professor Kachani received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a Master of Science in Operations Research from MIT and a Diplôme d'Ingénieur in Applied Mathematics from École Centrale Paris.

Professor Kachani serves as Senior Vice Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is an elected representative of the faculty of Columbia Engineering on the Columbia University Senate, where he is a member of the University Senate Executive Committee and the Chair of the University Senate Budget Committee.

Professor Kachani conducts research in the fields of dynamic pricing, revenue management, machine learning, logistics, supply chain management, algorithmic trading, statistical arbitrage, traffic flow modeling, and transportation analysis. He is an affiliated member of two centers of the Columbia Data Science Institute: The Financial and Business Analytics Center and the Foundations of Data Science Center. He is also an affiliated member of the Columbia Center for Financial Engineering and the Computational Optimization Research Center. He teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the areas of quantitative corporate finance, industrial economics, operations consulting, logistics, pricing, and production and inventory planning.

Prior to joining Columbia, Professor Kachani worked as a senior consultant in the Boston office of McKinsey & Company. He has continued to consult to McKinsey, to large corporations and to startups in the areas of pricing, analytics, supply chain management, operations, asset management, and corporate finance.