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Tom F. Tan
Doctoral Student

Tom F. Tan is a third-year doctoral student at OPIM, majoring in Operations Management. He graduated from Columbia University with a BS degree in Operations Research, Economics and Applied Mathematics. His main research interests include analyzing online behavioral data to understand and predict customer activities across a wide range of industries such as movies. He has used a very interesting data set from Netflix to study whether or not niche movies have received increasing demand over time. He has also worked with Banc of America Securities as a summer equity research analyst. In his spare time, he enjoys singing, reading about aircraft and airlines, playing volleyball and squash, and learning foreign languages.

Current Research

Tom F. Tan, Serguei Netessine, Empirical Examination of the Long Tail of Electronic Commerce

Teaching Experience

OPIM 621 Decision Models and Uncertainty (Fall 2008)

Executive OPIM 631 Quality and Production (Spring 2008, 2009)

OPIM 655 Integrating Marketing and Operation Management (Spring, 2009)

OPIM 650 Operational Performance (Summer, Fall 2008)

Education

2007-present The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, PhD candidate in Operations Management

2009 INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), Wharton-INSEAD Doctoral Program Exchange

2003-2007 Columbia University, BS in Operations Research, minoring in Applied Math and Economics

2005 Technicial University of Munich (Germany), DAAD High Tech Summer School

Honors And Awards

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, 2006

DAAD Fellowship, 2005

Fu Foundation Scholar, 2003-2007

Tom F. Tan
526.8 JMHH
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: 215-898-9813
Fax: (215)898-3664
fangyun@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Empirical operations management, revenue management and marketing, entertainment and media industry, travel and leisure industry.

Last Modified November 11, 2009