Mathematical modeling of logistics and transportation systems

Supply chain risk management

Behavioral issues in operations management 

Energy, environment, sustainability

Location Routing Black and White TSP with Drone Delivery, 2024-present.

Inventory Management with Palletized Transportation and Stochastic Demand, 2022-2023. 

Designing the Cost-Efficient and Environmentally Sustainable Drone Delivery System, 2021-present. (Funded by the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, Summer research grant $12,000)

Site Selection Problem for a Multinational Corporation's International Expansion, 2021-2022 

Using Advanced Analytics for Supply Chain Risks Management for Express Scripts Inc., 2019–present. (Funded by Express Scripts Inc.)  

Simulating Economic Consequences of Behavioral Newsvendor Problems, 2018-2019. (Funded by University of Missouri – St. Louis)

Strategic Design for Delivery with Trucks and Drones, 2016-2017. (Funded by U.S. Department of Transportation and Midwest Transportation Center).

Integrating Analytical Tools for Strategic Planning at Airports, 2016-2017. (Funded by Nanjing Lukou International Airport)           

Zhang, J., Campbell, J.F., & Sweeney II, D.C. (2024) “A Continuous Approximation Approach for Integrated Truck and Drone Delivery Systems”, Omega, p.103067

Yang, L., Liu, K., Zhang, J., and Zelbst, P.J. (2024) “Inventory Management with Palletized Transportation and Lost Sales”,  Transportation Research Part E, p. 103462

Zhang. J., Campbell, J.F., Sweeney II, D.C., & Hupman, C.A. (2021). “Energy Consumption Models for Delivery Drones: A Comparison and Assessment”,  Transportation Research Part D.

Hupman, A. C., and  Zhang, J. (2019). Simulating profit loss in behavioral newsvendor problems. In 2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (pp. 1859-1870). IEEE. 

Rust, D.L., Smith, L.D., Ryan, D.L., & Zhang, J. (2018). “The Other Side of Revenue Management: Managing Airport Infrastructure and Airside Operations”. International Journal of Revenue Management, 10(3-4), 189-215.

Smith, L. D., Nauss, R. M., Xu, L., Zhang, J., Ehmke, J. F., and Hellmann, L. (2017). “Information Technologies and Analytical Models for Strategic Design of Transportation Infrastructure”. In C. Howard & K Hargiss (Eds.), Strategic Information Systems and Technologies in Modern Organizations (pp. 300-321). Hershey: IGI Global.

Hupman, A., Zhang, J., Li, H., Subramaniam, J., Zhu, J., and Guan, S. (2021) "Predicting and Mitigating Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Disruptions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic", under revision on Risk Analysis: An International Journal 

Zhang, J., Campbell, J.F., and Sweeney II, D.C.  “Cost Efficient and Environmentally Sustainable Drone Delivery System Design”, to be submitted to Transportation Research Part B

Zhang, J. "Optimizing Drone Depot Location and Routing for Last-Mile Delivery: A Novel Application and Extension of the Black and White Traveling Salesman Problem", in progress.

Zhang, J. "Realistic Drone Cost and Emissions Data", in progress.

Zhang, J. and Li, H. “Enhanced Heuristics for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) for the Multi-echelon Multi-Commodity Location-Inventory Network Design Problem”, in progress.

Zhang, J., "Case study - Site Select Problem for a Swiss Cable Manufacturer Entering the U.S. Market", in progress 

 Hupman, A. C.,   Zhang, J., and Li, H. (2020) "Using Advanced Analytics for Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Mitigation at Express Script Inc.", September 2020, 82 pp.

Campbell, J.F., Sweeney II, D.C., Zhang, J., Pan, D. (2018) “Strategic Design for Delivery with Linked Transportation Assets: Trucks and Drones - Final Report”, Institute for Transportation, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, January 2018, 40 pp.

Campbell, J.F., Sweeney II, D.C., Zhang, J., (2017) “Strategic Design for Delivery with Trucks and Drones”, Research Report, April 2017. Available at www.updwg.org/resource-library/all-resources/page/6/, 38 pp. 

Smith, L.D. and Zhang, J. (2017) “Maximizing Airside Performance at Nanjing Lukou International Airport: An Application of Discrete Event Simulation in a Staged Queueing Framework for Airside Operations”, (in English and Chinese), May 2017, 73 pp.

Smith, L.D. and Zhang, J. (2017) “Strategic Decision Support for Airport Capacity Planning”, Report to U.S. Department of Transportation for UTC Study Grant DTRT13-G-UTC37, September 2017, 56 pp.

Zhang, J., Campbell, J.F., and Sweeney II, D.C. “A Continuous Approximation Approach to Integrated Truck and Drone Delivery Systems”,  INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2023, Phoenix, Arizona.

Zhang, J.,  “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Drone Delivery”,  COB Research Presentation, 2023, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Zhang, J., Campbell, J.F., and Sweeney II, D.C. “Energy Consumption Models for Drone Delivery”,  INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2022

Zhang, J. “Drone Delivery – How Good Is It From Science Fiction to Reality?”, WomenInTech (Chinese), 2021, YouTube, https://youtu.be/jBI2S6a8I1U.

Zhang, J. “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Drone Delivery”, UMSL - Missouri S&T Virtual Brown Bag Seminar, 2021, Virtual. 

Zhang, J., Campbell, J.F., and Sweeney II, D.C. “A Continuous Approximation Approach for Cost Efficient and Environmentally Sustainable Drone Delivery”,  INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2020, Virtual.

Zhang, J., Campbell, J.F., & Sweeney II, D.C. “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Drone Delivery”,  INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2019, Seattle, WA.

Zhang, J., Campbell, J.F., & Sweeney II, D.C. “Strategic Design for Delivery with Trucks and Drones”, Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium, 2017, Ames, IA.

Zhang, J. “Strategic Design for Delivery with Drones and Trucks”, Graduate Research Fair, University of Missouri – St. Louis, 2017.