Department of Industrial and System Engineering College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jun Zhuang, Ph.D. Candidate 3237 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706-1572, USA Tel:   (608) 358-7844 Fax:  (608) 262-8454 E-mail: jzhuang@wisc.edu CV (PDF)

Program Affiliation

• Major Professor: Vicki M. Bier
• Decision Science and Operations Research 
• Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Education

• Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 2008 (expected)
• M.S. University of Kentucky, 2004
• B.S. Southeast University, China, 2002

Publicity

• "Extreme Engineer of the Month," The Pre-Engineering Times: A publication of Junior Engineering Technical Society 63:3-4, January 2008. Link. PDF
• "Investment in Security," Industrial Engineer 39(3):53-54, March 2007. PDF

Working Experience

• Assistant Professor (officially starting on August 21, 2008)
  • Jun has accepted an offer from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• Research Assistant
  • Aug 2004~Present: Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Aug 2002~Aug 2004: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky
• Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Spring 2008: ISyE 320 Simulation and Probabilistic Modeling
• Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Fall 2007: ISyE 313 Engineering Economic Analysis
  • Fall 2006: ISyE 323 Operations Research-Deterministic Modeling
• Grader (Project Assistant), University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Sping 2007: ISyE 516 Introduction to Decision Analysis
  • Sping 2006: ISyE 691, Decision Making in Health Care
• Summer Intern
  • Jun 2007~Sep 2007: Engineering & Process Science: Modeling Group, The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX

Academic Membership

• IEEE Engineering Management Society (EMS), since 2004
• INFORMS Decision Analysis Society & Optimization Society, since 2004
• Society for Judgment and Decision Making, since 2004
• IIE Society for Engineering & Management Systems , since 2005
• Society of Risk Analysis, since 2007
• Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, since 2008

Articles

• Dighe, N., J. Zhuang, and V.M. Bier. "Secrecy in defensive allocations as a strategy for achieving more cost-effective attacker deterrence,'' International Journal of Performability Engineering, special issue on System Survivability and Defense against External Impacts, in press.
• Zhuang, J and V.M. Bier. "Balancing Terrorism and Natural Disasters---Defensive Strategy with Endogenous Attacker Effort," Operations Research 55(5): 976-991, 2007. PDF.
• Zhuang, J, V.M. Bier and A. Gupta. "Subsidies in Interdependent Security with Heterogeneous Discount Rates," The Engineering Economist 52(1):1-19, 2007. This paper was highlighted in Industrial Engineer 39(3):53-54, 2007. PDF.
• Zhuang, J and V.M. Bier. "Katrina vs. 9/11--How Should We Optimally Protect Against Both?" in Richardson, H., Gordon, P., Moore II, J. eds., Post-Katrina Analysis: Economics, Social Aspects, and Risk Assessment, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham and Northampton, in press. PDF.
• Hausken, K., V.M. Bier, and J. Zhuang. ''Defending against Terrorism, Natural Disaster, and All Hazards,'' in Bier, V.M. and Azaiez, N. eds., Combining Reliability and Game Theory, Springer Series on Reliability Engineering, in press.
• Zhuang, J, M.A. Marchant, S. Nokes and H. Strobel. "Economic Analysis of Cellulase Production Methods for Bio-ethanol," Applied Engineering in Agriculture 23(5): 679-687, 2007. PDF.
• Zhuang, J, M.A. Marchant, C.L. Schardl and C.M. Butler. "Economic Analysis of Replacing Endophyte-Infected with Endophyte-Free Tall Fescue Pastures" Agronomy Journal 97(3):711-716, 2005. PDF.
• Peng, X, M.A. Marchant, X.D. Qin, and J. Zhuang. "Chinese Consumers' Preferences for Livestock Products" The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 8(4):62-76, 2005. PDF.

Conference Presentations

• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Secrecy and Deception in Anti-Terrorism Resource Allocation and Policy Implication,'' Conference on Terrorism and Policy, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, May 15-17, 2008.
• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Modeling Secrecy and Deception in Homeland Security Resource Allocation,"INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November 4-7, 2007.
• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Balancing Terrorism and Natural Disasters'' (poster), Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Conference on Public Sector Operations Research, Claremont, California, September 28-29, 2007.
• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Balancing Terrorism and Natural Disasters'' (poster), Kickoff Workshop of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) program on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, September 16-19, 2007.
• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Modeling Secrecy and Deception in Homeland Security Resource Allocation," Risk Symposium 2007, Risk Analysis for Homeland Security and Defense: Theory and Application, LANL, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2007.
• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Balancing Terrorism and Natural Disasters" (poster), Risk Symposium 2007, Risk Analysis for Homeland Security and Defense: Theory and Application, LANL, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2007.
• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Game Theory and Homeland Security Resource Allocation" (poster), U.S. Department of Homeland Security Annual University Network Summit on Research and Education, Washington, DC, 2007.
• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Balancing Terrorism and Natural Disasters," INFORMS annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2006.
• Zhuang, J and V.M. Bier. "Balancing Terrorism and Natural Disasters---Defensive Strategy with Endogenous Attacker Effort," CREATE Symposium: Economic and Risk Assessment of Hurricane Katrina, Univ. Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2006.
• Bier, V.M., S. Oliveros and J. Zhuang (co-presenter). "Game Theory,'' Renewal Review Meeting for the CREATE, Univ. Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2006.
• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Balancing Terrorism and Natural Disasters---Defensive Strategy with Endogenous Attacker Effort," Risk Symposium 2006, Risk Analysis for Homeland Security and Defense: Theory and Application, LANL, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2006.
• Zhuang, J (presenter) and V.M. Bier. "Subsidized Security and Stability of Equilibrium Solutions in an N-Player Game with Errors," INFORMS annual meeting, San Francisco, California, 2005.
• Zhuang, J (presenter), M.A. Marchant, S. Nokes and H. Strobel. "Economic Analysis of Cellulase Production by Clostridium thermocellum in Solid State and Submerged Fermentation," AAEA annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, 2004.
• Marchant, M.A., C. Murrell, and J. Zhuang (presenter). "Economics of Replacing Endophyte-Infected with Endophyte-Free Tall Fescue Pastures," SAEA annual meeting, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2004; abstract in the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 36:2(Aug. 2004).
• Peng, X., M.A. Marchant, X.D. Qin and J. Zhuang. "Chinese Consumers Preference for Livestock Products," AAEA annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 27-30, 2003.