His doctorate in engineering systems is an integrative discipline that combines systems engineering, economics, and management.

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Pan moved back to Beijing shortly after graduating in 2002 with a doctorate in systems engineering from Boston University.

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He was admitted and earned a degree in engineering and then a doctorate from Stanford, in a branch of engineering called operations research, which uses mathematics to organize systems with lots of moving parts.

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