- Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution and Industrial & Systems Engineering,
- Industrial Distribution
- Phone: 979-845-4864
- Email: yanling.chang@tamu.edu
- Office: FERM 205D

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology – 2015
- M.S., Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology – 2014
- B.S., Electronic and Information Science and Technology, Peking University
Research Interests
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- Supply chain management, military and security
- Structural estimation and optimization
- Partially observable Markov decision processes, Markov games, and game theory
- Dynamic discrete choice analysis
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Awards & Honors
- NSF CAREER Award 2023
- Best paper award in the 2022 IISE Transactions (Scheduling and Logistics)
- Scialog MZT travel fellowship, 2021
- Scialog Fellow: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats, 2021
- A top cited article published in 2020 of the Internal Journal of Production Research
- Faculty Excellence Award in Research, ETID, Texas A&M University, 2018
- Corrie and Jim Furber '64 Faculty Fellow, 2018
Selected Publications
- Yanling Chang, Alfredo Garcia, Zhide Wang*, Lu Sun* (2023) Structural Estimation of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Accepted, in press, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3217908.
- Zhide Wang*, Yanling Chang, Brandon Schmeichel, and Alfredo Garcia. The effects of mental fatigue on effort allocation: Modeling and estimation. Psychological Review, 129(6), 1457-1485, 2022.
- Yanling Chang, Matthew F. Keblis, Ran Li, Eleftherios Iakovou, Chelsea C. White III (2022) Misinformation and Disinformation in Modern Warfare. Operations Research, 70(3), 1577-1597.
- Yanling Chang and Chelsea C. White III (2022) Worst-Case Analysis for a Leader-follower Partially Observable Stochastic Game. IISE Transactions. 54(4), 376-389.
- Yanling Chang, Lu Sun*, Matthew F. Keblis, Jie Yang* (2021) Auction in Staffing for Self-scheduling Services. IISE Transactions, 53(6), 719-734. Award: IISE Transactions 2022 Scheduling & Logistics Best Paper.