PENN STATE BEHREND
281 BURKE CENTER
ERIE PA 16563
Biography
Ying Cao is an Assistant Professor of Project and Supply Chain Management in the Black School of Business at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. She received her Ph.D. in management science from the University of Texas at Dallas and her research areas include sustainable supply chain management, retail operations, and inventory management. Her research articles have been published in journals including International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, Quality Management Journal, and Health Marketing Quarterly. She earned the certificate for Leverage Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence from Stanford University, and the certificate for Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University.
Research Interests
Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Retail Operations, Inventory Management, Behavioral Operations
Publications
Managerial Decisions of Remanufacturing Technology Portfolio under a Discrete Choice Model, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review - 2025
Collaborators: Guang Li; Kai Meng; Xianghui Peng
Achieving Sustainable Excellence: A Theoretical Comparison of Established Quality Awards, Quality Management Journal - March, 2024
Collaborators: Xianghui Peng; Victor Prybutok
A Meta-analysis of Technology Acceptance in Healthcare from the Consumer's Perspective, Health Marketing Quarterly - February, 2024
Collaborators: Xinyu Wei; Xianghui Peng; Victor Prybutok
Achieving Business Excellence through Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Total Quality Management & Business Excellence - 2023
Collaborators: Lu Xu; Xinyu Wei; Xianghui Peng; Victor Prybutok
An Organizational Framework for Sustainable Supply Chain Management: An Integrated Theoretical Perspective, Quality Management Journal - September, 2022
Collaborators: Xianghui Peng; Xinyu Wei; Lu Xu; Victor Prybutok
Smart Recovery Decision-Making for End-of-Life Products in the Context of Ubiquitous Information and Computational Intelligence. Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Cleaner Production - July, 2020
Collaborators: Kai Meng; Xianghui Peng; Victor Prybutok; Kamal Youcef-Toumi
Demand-Dependent Recovery Decision-Making of a Batch of Products for Sustainability, International Journal of Production Economics - November, 2019
Collaborators: Kai Meng; Xianghui Peng; Victor Prybutok; Varun Gupta
A Summary on the Research of GRA Models, Grey Systems: Theory and Application - 2013
Collaborators: Sifeng Liu; Yingjie Yang; Naiming Xie
Advance in Grey Incidence Analysis Modelling, Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice - 2013
Collaborators: Sifeng Liu; Hua Cai; Yingjie Yang
IN-GM (0, N) Cost Forecasting Model of Commercial Aircraft Based on Interval Grey Numbers, Kybernetes - 2012
Collaborators: Min Tian; Naiming Xie; Sifeng Liu
Research on ACPI System Frame for R&D Management of Complex Equipments, Kybernetes - 2012
Collaborators: Sifeng Liu; Zhigeng Fang; Chaoqing Yuan; Yaping Li
Advance in Grey Incidence Analysis Modelling, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - 2011
Collaborators: Sifeng Liu; Hua Cai; Naiming Xie
Cost Prediction Model of Commercial Aircraft Based on Grey Incidence Weight, Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent Services - 2011
Collaborators: Sifeng Liu; Naiming Xie; Zhigeng Fang
Education
Ph.D., Operations Management, The University of Texas at Dallas
M.S., Supply Chain Management, The University of Texas at Dallas
M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
BBA, Industrial Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics