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Welcome to my website. My name is Xingang Wen and I am currently working as an assistant professor in Operations Management in the Department of Information Systems, Data Analytics and Operations (IDO) at ESSEC Business School (France). 

I obtained my PhD degree in Management Science from Xi'an Jiaotong University (2014) in China and  PhD degree in Economics from Tilburg University (2017) in the Netherlands. Before joining ESSEC in the summer of 2025, I worked as a postdoc researcher at Bielefeld University (Germany). 

My research focuses on firms’ optimal decisions under uncertainty, particularly for firms’ operations such as innovation investment, production planning, and transportation. My expertise lies in applying an interdisciplinary approach to address the challenges firms face under uncertainties related to market demand, technological advancements, and regulatory changes. My current research interests include R&D innovation and patent race, financing constraint, smart products and liabilities, energy market, and strategic investment.