Education
- Ph.D., Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sep. 2013 – Jun. 2018
Advisors: Prof. Shuzhong Zhang and Prof. Zizhuo Wang - M.Phil., Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Sep. 2010 – Aug. 2012
Advisor: Prof. Karthik Natarajan - B.S., Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Sep. 2006 – Aug 2010.
 Research Interests
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Stochastic and Robust Optimization
- Pricing and Revenue Management
- Discrete Choice Models
- E-Commerce Operations
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainable Operations
Selected Publications
(Students or research staffs advised is indicated as *.)
- A Nonparametric Approach with Marginals for Modeling Consumer Choice (with Yanqiu Ruan*, Karthyek Murthy, Karthik Natarajan). Accepted by Management Science, 2025.
- Proactive Policing: A Resource Allocation Model for Crime Prevention with Deterrence Effect (With Long He and Yue Zhao*). Accepted by Operations Research, 2025.
- Partition and Prosper: Design and Pricing of Single Bundle (with Hailong Sun* and Chung Piaw Teo). Operations Research, 73(4), 1983-2001, 2025.
- Distributionally Robust Newsvendor under Stochastic Dominance with a Feature-Based Application (with Mingyang Fu* and Lianmin Zhang). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(5), 2024.
- Optimal Policies and Heuristics to Match Supply with Demand for Online Retailing (with Qiyuan Deng, Yun Fong Lim and Fang Liu). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(5), 2024.
- Should Only Popular Products Be Stocked? Warehouse Assortment Selection for E-Commerce Companies (with Hongyuan Lin* and Fang Liu). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(4), 2024. ——Winner of the 2021 MSOM Data-Driven Research Challenge
- Dynamic Inventory Repositioning in On-Demand Product Rental Networks (with Saif Benjaafar, Daniel Jiang and Xiang Li). Management Science, 68(11), 7861-7878, 2022.
- Convex Optimization for Bundle Size Pricing Problem (with Hailong Sun* and Chung Piaw Teo). Management Science, 68(2), 1095-1106, 2022.
- Technical Note – On the Relation Between Several Discrete Choice Models (with Guiyun Feng and Zizhuo Wang). Operations Research, 65(6), 1516-1525, 2017.
- Robustness to Dependency in Portfolio Optimization Using Overlapping Marginals (with Karthik Natarajan and Xuan Vinh Doan). Operations Research, 63(6), 1468-1488, 2016.