

His research has been supported by KPMG Foundation, National Institute of Health, and Department of Veterans Affairs. 3 among the most productive and influential authors in 40 years of European Journal of Operational Research. With more than 20,000 Google Scholar citations, he is recognized as one of the top authors in DEA with respect to research productivity, h-index, and g-index.

He has written and co-edited books focusing on performance evaluation and benchmarking using DEA. He is an internationally recognized expert in methods of performance evaluation and benchmarking using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and his research interests are in the areas of operations and business analytics, productivity modeling, and performance evaluation and benchmarking. For more information on his research, please visit Joe Zhu is Professor of Operations Analytics in the Foisie Business School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is also a member of Computers & Operations Research Editorial Board. He is an Associate Editor of OMEGA and The Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research. Professor Zhu has also co-authored two books on modeling performance measurement and evaluating hedge funds. He developed the DEAFrontier software which is a DEA add-in for Microsoft Excel. He is the author of Quantitative Models for Evaluating Business Operations: Data Envelopment Analysis with Spreadsheets (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003). He has published over 70 articles in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, IIE Transactions, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research, Information Technology and Management Journal, Computer and Operations Research, OMEGA, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Journal of Productivity Analysis, INFOR, Journal of Alternative Investment and others. His research interests include issues of performance evaluation and benchmarking, supply chain design and efficiency, and Data Envelopment Analysis. Joe Zhu is Associated Professor of Operations, Department of Management at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
