Associate Professor
Management, Dept of
Kyle Hall 361
Box 6954				
	I am Jaehwan Jeong, a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Management
                                                   at 福利导在线观看. I earned my Ph.D. in Management Science from the University
                                                   of Tennessee - Knoxville in May 2014, following an M.S. in Management Science with
                                                   a minor in Statistics from the same institution in August 2009. I received a B.S.
                                                   in Business Administration from Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea. Before joining
                                                   福利导在线观看 as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2015, I served as a Visiting
                                                   Professor at York College of Pennsylvania for a year and a Lab Instructor at the University
                                                   of Tennessee - Knoxville. I also served as a Sergeant in the Republic of Korea Army
                                                   from 2002 to 2004. 
 
My research focuses on the intersection of optimization, analytics, and machine learning.
                                                   I explore areas such as Quadratic Optimization, Inverse/Reverse Optimization, Stochastic
                                                   Optimization, Dimensionality Reduction, and their applications in fields like Portfolio
                                                   Selection, Index Tracking, and Network Modeling. My work has been published in leading
                                                   journals including Operations Research (OR), European Journal of Operational Research
                                                   (EJOR), Mathematical Programming (MP), The Journal of Portfolio Management (JPM),
                                                   and Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM). I have also contributed as a
                                                   guest editor for a special issue on Portfolio Selection and Risk Analytics and presented
                                                   my findings at numerous national and international conferences. 
 
In my teaching, I cover a range of topics including Business Analytics, Operations
                                                   Management, Soft Skills, Visual Analytics (Tableau), and Optimization. I have taught
                                                   courses at both the undergraduate and MBA levels, focusing on providing students with
                                                   practical skills and analytical thinking capabilities. Beyond the classroom, I am
                                                   actively involved in university service, contributing to various committees, including
                                                   the Faculty Senate, Scholarly Activities, Student Success Council, Assurance of Learning,
                                                   Curriculum Development, IT Advisory, and Faculty Search. 
 
My scholarly efforts have been recognized through various honors and grants. These
                                                   include multiple Faculty Research Awards from the Davis College, a SEED Grant from
                                                   福利导在线观看 for research on Elastic-Nets, and funding such as the Truist Leadership
                                                   Grant and Learning Innovation for Fulfilling Teaching (LIFT). I have also received
                                                   fellowships like the RISE Faculty Institute and Elevate Research Faculty Fellow from
                                                   the DuPont fund and was awarded the Best Paper Award by the Multinational Finance
                                                   Society.  
Ph.D., Management Science, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN, USA (2014) 
M.S., Management Science (Minor: Statistics), University of Tennessee - Knoxville,
                                                            TN, USA (2009) 
B.S., Business Administration, Dongguk University - Seoul, South Korea (2006) 
MGNT 333 Business Analytics & Information Systems 
MGNT 357 Operations & Information Systems Management 
MGNT 430 Winning Decisions with Analytics 
MGNT 471 Visual Analytics 
MGNT 622 Prescriptive Analytics & Modeling
Elevate Research Faculty Fellow, Jessie Ball DuPont Fund, 2021-Present 
Truist Leadership Grant, Truist Bank, 2024 
RISE Faculty Institute, 福利导在线观看, 2024 
Seed Grant, 福利导在线观看, 2023 
Best Paper Award, Multinational Finance Society, 2019