KE (GRACE) KE

Assistant Professor of Management

Babin School of Business

University of Arkansas

Monticello, AR 71656

 

Phone:  (870) 460-1311

Fax:    (870) 460-1784

E-mail: ke at uamont.edu

Education Background

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

           June 2004, in Business Administration

           with concentration in Management Science and a minor in Finance

  

Master, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, March 2000, in Technical Economics

 

B.E., Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, July 1997, in Systems Engineering

 

Teaching:

 

GB 2113  Business Statistics I

GB 3713  Business Statistics

MGMT 4613 Management Information Systems

MGMT 4643 Production and Operations Management

 

Research:

 

Interests

 

Decision-making in complex network systems, in particular, financial networks with intermediation and electronic transactions, and supply chain networks. Other areas of interest include ARCH modeling, risk analysis, econometrics, corporate finance, and asset pricing.

 

Additional Research

 

The Virtual Center for Supernetworks at the Isenberg School of Management (http://supernet.som.umass.edu) (September 2001 – present): Research Associate

 

Publications

 

Research Projects

 

Professional Memberships

 

Member, INFORMS – Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences

Member, MAA -- Mathematical Association of America

Member, IEEE -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

CFA candidate, AIMR – The Association for Investment Management and Research

 

Professional Activities

 

Journal Reviewer

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA)

Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

 

Workshop Reviewer

AAAI-07 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA-07)

 

Program Committee

Joint 9th WEBKDD and SNA-KDD(Social Network Analysis) workshop, co-held with SIG-KDD 2007

 

 

Recognition and Honors

           

Young Researcher Roundtable, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), 2006

Member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, 2004