- Faculty
Frank Ge
- Senior Research Associate
Biography
Houtian (Frank) Ge’s research covers a wide range of multidisciplinary topics, including production economics, agribusiness, marketing, supply chain management and operations research. He is deeply committed to developing computational methods for optimization models to generate solutions for complex real economic systems and for strategic management issues. He is most interested in applying multi-pronged modeling approaches and incorporating multi-source datasets to investigate how the structure of economic systems interacts with individual motivations and is shaped by broader regional/local contexts.
Education
PhD University of Saskatchewan, 2012 MA University of Saskatchewan, 2005
Research
- Cleary, Rebecca; Goetz, Stephan; McFadden, Dawn; Ge, Houtian. "Excess Competition Among Food Hubs"Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 44.1 (2019): 141-163
- Ge, Houtian; Goetz, Stephan; Canning, Patrick; Perez, Agnes. "Optimal locations of fresh produce aggregation facilities in the United States with scale economies"International Journal of Production Economics. 197 (2018): 143-157
- Ge, Houtian; Canning, Patrick; Goetz, Stephan; Perez, Agnes. "Effects of scale economies and production seasonality on optimal hub locations: the case of regional fresh produce aggregation"Agricultural Economics. 49.2 (2018): 157-169
- Ge, Houtian; Goetz, Stephan; Gomez, Miguel; Gray, Richard; Nolan, James. "Modeling Testing Mechanism for Mitigating Genetically Modified Wheat Contamination Risks"International Journal of Production Research. 57.2 (2019): 582-598
- Ge, Houtian; Noaln, James; Gray, Richard; Goetz, Stephan; Han, Yicheol. "Supply chain complexity and risk mitigation – A hybrid optimization–simulation model"International Journal of Production Economics. 179 (2016): 228-238
- Ge, Houtian; Gray, Richard; Nolan, James. "Agricultural supply chain optimization and complexity: A comparison of analytic vs simulated solutions and policies"International Journal of Production Economics. 159 (2015): 208-220
- Ge, Houtian; Nolan, James; Gray, Richard. "Identifying Strategies to Mitigate Handling Risks in the Canadian Grain Supply Chain"Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 63.1 (2015): 101-128