Dear UCR Faculty and Staff:
 
I am pleased to announce that Yunzeng Wang has been appointed as Interim Dean of our School of Business Administration（SoBA）through June 30, 2013.  Yunzeng has been serving as Acting Dean for the past couple months, during which time Chancellor White and I have been impressed by his judgment and acumen.   Interim Dean Wang joined the SoBA faculty in 2008 as the Dean’s Distinguished Scholar in Supply Chain Management and Professor of Finance and Management Science and has prior experience as SoBA’s Associate Dean of Academic Programs.
 
Previously he was a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he was the founding director of their Master’s Degree Program in Supply Chain Management as well as the director of their Ph.D. Program in Operations Management.  Yunzeng was also on the faculty of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University for seven years.
 
Dr. Wang earned his Ph.D. in operations management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He has a Master’s degree in management sciences from the University of Waterloo in Canada and a Master’s degree in engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. His undergraduate degree is in electrical engineering from Shandong University in China. 

Dr. Wang’s research interests include supply chain management, technology acquisition and adoption strategy, US-China economic development and trade, stochastic optimization, and game theory. He is a frequent speaker at research universities around the world and at various professional organizations.  He has published extensively, and serves as an editor or on the editorial advisory board of several journals.  Dr. Wang was the 1998 recipient of the Geaor Dantzig Prize for the Operations Research and Management Sciences（INFORMS）, for the theoretical contributions of his research and its relevance to management practice.
 
Please join me in welcoming Yunzeng Wang as Interim Dean of our School of Business Administration.  

Dallas Rabenstein
Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost
University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
Email:  dallas.rabenstein@ucr.edu