Xiwen Bai-Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University

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The bachelors's degree in Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua requires 170 credits totally, which include: spring & fall courses 142 credits, summer practicum 13 credits, and thesis project 15 credits. The 170 credits constitution is: General

The Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering is offered to all students who finish the Industrial Engineering program usually in 2 years. Besides the required Master's thesis, the Industrial Engineering program requires 30 credits, con

The Philosophy of Doctor degree in Industrial Engineering is offered to all students who finish the Industrial Engineering program in at least 3 to 5 years.

PEOThe current PEO is:Employ industrial engineering theories, and analytical and management skills for incre
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Introduction Institute of Operations Research and Data Science Institute of System Operation and Digital Management Institute of Human Factors and Human-System Interaction Research Centers IE Laboratories

The Department of Industrial Engineering is devoted to solving efficiency, quality, cost and safety problems in industrial and service systems. The challenges in contemporary society are mostly complicated system problems, such as management of global production networks, establishment of efficient public healthcare systems, construction of traffic and transport systems and their operation networ

We apply state-of-the-art decision science and statistics knowledge to the development of the Chinese economy. To be specific, we use data-driven decision...

Human Factor and Ergonomics studies the correlations and interactions between human, tool, machine and environment in system, and promote the total productivity of human-machine system as well as people's health, security and the quality of life.

The research centers at the department are platforms for the collaboration and communication between the department and industries. They serve through research, technology transfer, management consulting, and continuous education & training. Below ar

The IE department has four laboratories: Human Factors Engineering Lab (HFEL), Logistics Engineering Lab (LEL), Production Engineering Lab (PEL), and Computing and Simulation Lab (CSL).
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The department is well structured by a team of 30 highly qualified faculty members, including 7 full professors, 17 associate professors, and 6 assistant professors. The founding chaired professor and department head is Dr. Gavriel Salvendy, who is a prof

Dr. Gavriel Salvendy Chair of the Review Board
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University of Central Florida,and President Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida
Member of National Academy of Engineering, US

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The department has one associate chair as the department-level student advisory board director. The board has an undergraduate branch and a graduate branch. Each branch is formed by class advisors, class assistants, student union, Youth League, and Scienc The IE department has eight undergraduate classes (each grade has two classes of about 70 students). Also we have two faculty members as the advisors for the freshmen, two for the sophomores, one for the juniors, and o

The students are required to participate in extracurricular activities in order to prepare themselves with not only knowledge in IE, but also Teamwork and interpersonal skills, Leadership, and Social responsibilities. The university-level student advisor
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Undergraduate Program Master's Program Ph.D. Program

The Bachelor program requires 173 credits, consisting of 136 credits in spring/fall semesters, 4 credits in senior projects, 18 credits in summer practice and military training, and 15 credits of a final thesis. The courses are classified into five catego

International programs have been initiated since 2001 including the Tsinghua-Aachen joint master program and Tsinghua-Gatech exchange program. And a two-year, professional-orientated Master's program in Management Science and Engineering (Global Manufactu

The doctoral degree program usually lasts 3 to 5 years. Students with Master's degree usually spend 3 to 4 years. The program has 22 credits consisting of 13 credits of core courses, and 5 credits of research requirements. Students without an IE related M

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Xiwen Bai, Associate Professor

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Name: Xiwen Bai Phone: E-mail: xiwenbai@tsinghua.edu.cn Fax: +86-10-6279-4399 Address: 519B South Shunde Building Homepage:

Biography

Dr. Xiwen Bai is an Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University in 2019. Her research interests include maritime transportation and economics, digital shipping, big data, and logistics management, etc. She is looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students with strong maths and coding background. Postdocs with background in transportation, industrial engineering, big data application or related domain are also welcomed to join the team. For those interested, please email your CV to xiwenbai@tsinghua.edu.cn.

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award, Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), 2020
Best Paper Award, The 3rd conference of the Yangtze-River Research and Innovation Belt (Y-RIB), 2020
3rd Place, United Nations AIS Big Data Hackathon, 2020

Educational Background

Ph.D., School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2019
Master of Engineering in Supply Chain Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018
B.S., School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2015

Employment History

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2019.10 - 2022.12

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2022.12 - now

Courses

Undergraduate Level:
- Engineering Economics
- International Logistics

Graduate Level:
- Managerial Economics

Research Interests

Maritime transportation and economics, digital shipping, big data analytics, and logistics management

Research Projects

NSFC, Financial and operational risk management in the tramp shipping, PI

Publications

1. Bai, X., & Lam, J. S. L.* (2021). Freight rate co-movement and risk spillovers in the product tanker shipping market: A copula analysis. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. Accepted.

2. Bai, X., Lam, J. S. L.*, & Jakher, A. (2021). Shipping sentiment and the dry bulk shipping freight market: New evidence from newspaper coverages. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. Under major revision.

3. Bai, X., Hou, Y. & Dong, Y.* (2021). Choose Clean Energy or Green Technology? Empirical Evidence from Global Ships. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. Under major revision.

4. Bai, X.*, Jia H., & Xu, M. (2021). Port congestion and the economics of LPG seaborne transportation. Maritime Policy & Management. Under minor revision.

5. Bai, X., Zhang, X., Li, K. X., Zhou, Y., & Yuen, K. F.* (2020). Scientific research topics and trends in the maritime transport: a structural topic model. Transport Policy. In press.

6. Yuen, K. F., Bai, X., & Wang, X.* (2020). Safety behaviour at sea: Policy implications for managing seafarers through positive psychology. Marine Policy, 104163.

7. Bai, X., & Lam, J. S. L.* (2019). A copula-GARCH approach for analyzing dynamic conditional dependency structure between liquefied petroleum gas freight rate, product price arbitrage and crude oil price. Energy Economics, 78, 412-427.

8. Bai, X., & Lam, J. S. L.* (2019). A destination choice model for very large gas carriers (VLGC) loading from the US Gulf. Energy, 174, 1267-1275.

9. Bai, X., & Lam, J. S. L.* (2019). An integrated analysis of interrelationships within the very large gas carrier (VLGC) shipping market. Maritime Economics & Logistics, 21(3), 372-389.

10. Lam, J. S. L.*, & Bai, X., (2016). A quality function deployment approach to improve maritime supply chain resilience. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 92, 16-27.

11. Bai, X., & Li, Y. (2021). The macroeconomics of oil transportation. Working paper.

Editorship

Associated Editor, Maritime Policy & Management