Our doctoral candidates

Neda Pourreza is a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland Business School. She attained her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the Iran University of Science and Technology and the University of Tehran, respectively. Her thesis focuses on designing a resilient supply chain network for healthcare operations from a New Zealand perspective. Her research interests include Supply Chain & Logistics Management, Operations Research, Transportation & Hub Network Design, Modelling Uncertainty, Mathematical Modelling.

Mengxiao Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Auckland Business School. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management and a Master’s Degree in Management. Her PhD thesis looks at Incentives Mechanism for Privacy and Data Pricing in Data Marketplaces. Her research interests include data pricing, data privacy, mechanism design and agent-based modelling. Her work has appeared in academic journals such as Computers & Industrial Engineering.

Xueping Yang is a Information Systems PhD candidate at the University of Auckland Business School. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Central China Normal University. She works primarily in the area of information organization and retrieval. Her current research interests focus on social media platform content commercialization, digital business and user-system interaction. Her research has appeared in the Database for Advances in Information Systems, the proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) and the Journal of China Society for Scientific and Technical Information, and Chinese language core journals.