2015年8月7日，Worcester Polytechnic Institute商学院的Joe Zhu教授应邀至管理与经济学院进行学术访问并作了题为“Data Envelopment Analysis: New Perspective”的学术报告，为学院师生介绍其学术经验和成果。本次报告由王科副教授主持，学院众多师生参加了本次报告会，并对Joe Zhu教授的到来表示热烈欢迎。
    报告首先简单介绍了DEA方法的基础知识，并引入了新的见解；随后介绍了DEA发展过程中最基本的三个模型，阐述了它们的意义以及相关模型算法的演变过程；其次以造船厂和器官移植两个实际的例子详细的讲解了DEA模型如何在实际生产生活中进行应用；最后比较了DEA与传统统计方法的不同，并在DEA方法现有的研究基础上提出了创新性引导，使在场师生深受启发。汇报结束后，在场师生就报告中所涉及的研究方法等问题展开深入的交流和热烈的讨论。

主讲人简介：
Professor Zhu is an expert in methods of performance evaluation and benchmarking, and his research interests are in the areas of operations and productivity, and performance evaluation and benchmarking, and the method of data envelopment analysis (DEA). He was recently been awarded a Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship. The author of more than 120 journal articles, books, and textbooks, and with more than 10,000 Google Scholar citations, his research interests include operations and business analytics, productivity modeling, and performance evaluation. Professor Zhu has published in top journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Sloan Management Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operational Research Society, IIE Transactions, OMEGA, and others. He is a co-editor of the Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis (1st and 2nd editions), published by Springer. Professor Zhu has published and co-edited seven books on performance evaluation and benchmarking using data envelopment analysis (DEA).

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