Publications
Peer-review and Working Papers11. "From social to purchase: customer selection in social group buying," with Y. Cheng and Z.-J. M. Shen. Link to PDF. Under second-round minor revision at Production and Operations Management.
12. "Dynamic inventory control with covariates: risk constraints, regularization, and folding-horizon plan,"  with Y. F. Chen, Y. Li, and Z.-J. M. Shen. Link to PDF. Under revision at Operations Research.

13. "Optimizing non-emergency medical transportation service," with X. He, Y. Yin, and Y. Li. R&R at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

14. "How the platform enables creator innovation: a perspective of AI feedback," with Y. Cheng, Z. Zhou, and Z.-J. M. Shen. Finished field experiments at Kuaishou. Link to SSRN. Under review at Management Science.

15"Inventory management and consumer preference learning for substitutable products with covariates," with Y. Zheng, Y. Yang, and Y. F. Chen. Link to SSRN. In a submission to Operations Research.

16. "Financial hedging for a data-driven newsvendor selling new products," with Y. Huang, Y. F. Chen, and Q. Yuan. Targetting Management Science. 

17"Interpreting machine learning through domain knowledge: a practical case of sales forecasts," with Y. Sun, Z.-J. M. Shen, and JD.com. Link to SSRN.  To be submitted to Production and Operations Management.

18."Matrix-based pricing optimization with proxy covariates," with Y. Huang. Targeting Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

19. "Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients," with Y. Lu, Z.-J. M. Shen, and J. Zhang. Under revision

20. "Machine learning-based prediction of passenger waiting time during check-in process," with X. Liao and X. Ma. Under revision.

21 "Deep reinforcement learning for check-in optimization: a case study in Daxing Airport,"  with H. Yin, X. Ma, Z.-J. M. Shen and Daxing Airport's teams. Under field experiments and in production

Work-in-progress

22."Transfer learning promotion assortment: the value of proxy data," with J. Zeng and Z.-J. M. Shen, To carry out field experiments in a large retailer

23. "Flexible worker scheduling and allocation to improve the production rate in serial production lines," with J. Chen and Z.-J. M. Shen

24. "Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization for multi-stage linear program."

25. "Data-driven distributionally robust network design with flexible service." 

26. "Targeting or not: A robust approach incorporating personalized intervention effectiveness," with Z. Yong and Y. F. Chen

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