I design simple, implementable solutions that remain effective when data are scarce, noisy, or shifting. Methodologically, I use robust and stochastic optimization and game theory to (i) develop practical pricing and selling strategies that maximize revenue under limited or uncertain market information, and (ii) create cost-effective, reliable network structures and resource-allocation policies for supply chains and service systems that achieve near-optimal performance (e.g., higher profit, lower wait costs, and compliance with service-level agreements).
Publications
- The Power of Simple Menus in Robust Selling Mechanisms, forthcoming at Management Science.
- Finalist, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition, 2023
- Third Place, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2024
- Minimax Regret Robust Screening with Moment Information, with Shaoxuan Liu and Jiawei Zhang, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(3), pp. 992-1012, 2024.
- Achieving High Individual Service-Levels without Safety Stock? Optimal Rationing Policy of Pooled Resources, with Jiashuo Jiang and Jiawei Zhang, Operations Research, 71(1), pp. 358-377, 2023.
- Robust Optimization Approach to Process Flexibility Designs with Contribution Margin Differentials, with Xuan Wang and Jiawei Zhang, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24(1), pp. 632-646, 2022.
- A Review of Flexible Processes and Operations, with Xuan Wang and Jiawei Zhang, Production and Operations Management, 30(6), pp.1804-1824, 2021.
Working Papers
- Robust Optimal Selling Mechanism under Non-linear Utility, with Pin Gao, Yicheng Liu, Zhen Wang and Zizhuo Wang.
- Preliminary version accepted at Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2024).
- Data-Driven Joint Flexibility and Capacity Planning Under Service Level Considerations, with Min Liu and Yong Liang.
- Value of Sparse Structures in Dynamic Reusable Resource Allocation with Waiting, with Jing Dong and Yue Hu.
- Assortment Optimization and Pricing in a Queue, with Zhe Liu and Kalyan Talluri.
- Content Rotation in the Presence of Satiation Effect, with Xiao Lei and Beichen Wan.
- The Impact of Profit Differentials on the Value of a Little Flexibility, with Jiawei Zhang and Yichen Zhang.