Specialties

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 2000
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (1994-95)
Visiting Scientist at the Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, the Universite Paul Sabatier,
France (1993-1994)

Selected Publications

• “Diffusion Models for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Media Distribution: On the Impact of Decentralized, Constrained Supply,” with K. Hosanagar and P. Han, Information Systems Research, forthcoming.
  
  
• "Analysis of Scale Effects in Peer-to-Peer Networks," with Y.-M. Li and Y. P. Zhou, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2008, pp. 590-602.
  
  
• “Price and QoS Competition in Communication Services,” with Z. Zhang and D. Dey, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 187, No. 3, 2008, pp. 871-886.
  
  
• “Pricing Communication Services with Delay Guarantee,” with D. Dey and Z. Zhang, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2007, pp. 248-260.
  
  
• “Analyzing Document Duplication Effects on Policies for Browser and Proxy Caching,” with V. S. Mookerjee and Y. Ji, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2006, pp. 506-522.
  
  
• “An Economic Analysis of Interconnection Arrangements between Internet Backbone Providers,” with I. R. Chiang and V. S. Mookerjee; Operations Research, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2006, pp. 776-788.
  
  
• “Allocating Spending between Advertising and Information Technology in Electronic Retailing,” with V. S. Mookerjee, Management Science, Vol. 51, No. 8, 2005, pp. 1236-1249.
  
  
• “Economic Control and Inspection Policies for High-Speed Production Systems,” with K. Moinzadeh, IIE Transactions, Vol. 37, No. 8, 2005, pp. 711-724.
  
  
• “Comparing Uniform and Flexible Policies for Software Maintenance and Replacement,” with V. S. Mookerjee, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005, pp. 238-255.
  
  
• “Evaluation and Design of Online Cooperative Feedback Mechanism for Reputation Management,” with M. Fan and A. B. Whinston, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2005, pp. 244-254.
  
  
• “Optimal Processing Policies for an E-Commerce Web Server,” with V. S. Mookerjee and K. Moinzadeh, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2005, pp. 99-110.
  
  
• "Analysis of a Least Recently Used Cache Management Policy for Web Browsers," with V. S. Mookerjee, Operations Research, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2002, pp. 345-357.
  
  

Current Research

Peer-to-peer network, social networks, open source software development, digital content distribution channels, information security.

Honors and Awards

Ph.D. Outstanding Mentor Award (2007)
Dean's Faculty Research Award (2006)
Dean's Junior Faculty Research Award (2005)
Undergraduate Professor of the Year in Information Systems (2005)
Lex N. Gamble Family Award for Excellence in the Field of E-Commerce (2003)
Tyler Scholarship at the University of Washington (1999-2000)
Edna Benson Fellowship at the University of Washington (1999)
Dean’s Achievement Award at the University of Washington (1998)

Academic Service

Associate Editor
Management Science

Information Systems Research

Editorial Review Board member, Journal of Database Management
Faculty Mentor, Doctoral Internationalization Consortium in Information Systems (2005)
Track Co-Chair of 7th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (2005)
Program Committee Member of 10th – 16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems
Program Committee Member of 7th, 8th, 10th IFIP WG 8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation

of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design