Associate Professor, Business Analytics

Larry and Lori Wright Research Fellow, Business Analytics

PhD in Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

ME in Industrial Engineering, University of the Philippines

BS in Industrial Engineering, University of the Philippines

Healthcare Operations Management

Supply Chain Management

Visiting Scholar - University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Operations, Information and Decisions Department, 2016

Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow - Tippie College of Business, 2005 - 2013

Martin and Barbara Johnson Research Fellow, 2004

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 1990

De Matta, R. (2025). Managing Post-Purchase Stock-Outs in Online Retailing. Research or Technical Report.

de Matta, R. E. (2017). Contingency Planning During the Formation of a Supply Chain. Annals of Operations Research. 257 pp. 45-75.

Wang, W., Street, W., & deMatta, R. E. Topological Resilience Analysis of Supply Networks under Random Disruptions and Targeted Attacks. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining 2015. pp. 250-257.

de Matta, R. E. & Miller, T. (2015). Formation of a Strategic Manufacturing and Distribution Network with Transfer Prices. European Journal of Operational Research. 241 (2) pp. 435-448.

de Matta, R. E., Lowe, T. J., & Wu, L. (2015). Managing Product Variety in a Supply Chain. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 62 (1) pp. 4-17.

Miller, T., de Matta, R. E., & Xu, M. (2014). Practitioners’ Notes On High Level Inventory Network Modeling Approaches In Handbook of Research on Global Supply Chain Management. pp. 15-44. Bryan Christiansen (Eds.) IGI Global.

de Matta, R. E., Hsu, V., & Li, C. (2014). Coordinated Production and Delivery for an Exporter. IIE Transactions. 47 (4) pp. 373-391.

de Matta, R. E., Lowe, T. J., & Zhang, D. (2014). The Retailer-Supplier Preference to Sell on Consignment or Wholesale. Omega. 49 pp. 93-106.

Miller, T. & de Matta, R. E. (2014). Profit Maximization Modeling for Supply Chain Planning In Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization. (Vols. 4) pp. 1910-1921.

Zhang, D., de Matta, R. E., & Lowe, T. J. (2010). Channel Coordination in a Consignment Contract. European Journal of Operational Research. 207 (2) pp. 897-905.

"Consolidating Product Shipments in a Global Supply Chain," Guest/Invited Speaker at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2017.

"Consolidating Product Shipments in a Global Supply Chain," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, April 2017.

"Dynamic Pricing In Reputation-Based E-Commerce Retailing," Accepted Speaker at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2016.

"Competition in the Consignment Market Channel," Guest/Invited Speaker at The Sixth POMS-HK International Conference, Guangzhou, China, January 2015.

"Contingency Planning in the Formation of a Supply Chain," Guest/Invited Speaker at Production and Operations Management Society-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, January 2014.

"Maximizing the Value of Healthcare Output through Learning," Guest/Invited Speaker at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2013.

"Contingency Planning in the Formation of a Supply Chain," Guest/Invited Speaker at Phi Beta Lambda Business Organization Meeting, Iowa City, Iowa, March 2013.

"Contingency Planning in the Formation of a Supply Chain," Guest/Invited Speaker at Production and Operations Management Society Annual Conference, Hong Kong, China, January 2013.

"Disruptions and Market Competition in The Supply Chain Network," Guest/Invited Speaker at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, October 2012.

"Consignment or Wholesale:Retailer and Supplier Preferences and Incentives for Compromise," Guest/Invited Speaker at Production and Operations Management Society Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2012.

De Matta, R. (2025). Trading off Cost Efficiency for Reduced Supply Chain Fragility.

Guignard, M., Hahn, P., De Matta, R., & Zhang, H. (2025). Cross Dock Operations Planning Improvements with Simulation-Optimization.

De Matta, R., Lowe, T., & Wendell, R. (2025). Optimizing the Agility of a Project.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Business Logistics, April 2011 - May 2012.

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, May 2008 - May 2012.

Referee/Reviewer, Annals of Operations Research, 2024-25.

Referee/Reviewer, European Journal of Operational Research, 2024-25.

Referee/Reviewer, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023-24.

Referee/Reviewer, European Journal of Operational Research, 2022-23.

Referee/Reviewer, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022-23.