Jun Li

Jun is a Professor of Technology and Operations at Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. She conducts research in revenue management and pricing, healthcare management, supply chain risks, corporate social responsibility, and public sector operations.  Her current research centers around improving the wellbeing of children and young adults through better education and care. 

She has extensive experience working with airlines, hotels, retailers, auto manufacturers, healthcare providers. She is the winner of several prestigious awards including the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award for implementing competition-based dynamic pricing in online retailing, the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Award in recognition of her contribution to the science of pricing and revenue management, the Financial Times Research Impact Award (shortlisted), the POM Applied Research Challenge, and the MOSM Responsible Research Award for her work on crowdfunding K-12 school teachers, the MSOM Young Scholar Prize, which recognizes exceptional young researchers under 40 who have made outstanding contributions to scholarship in operations management, Poets and Quants 40 under 40 MBA Professors for her excellence in research and teaching in MBA programs. 

In methodology, she specialize in causal inferences and structural estimation integrating economic modeling with statistical inferences. More recently, I have also worked on studies integrating causal inference methods with machine learning methods (IV LASSO, IV trees, and graphic-LASSO choice models).  Her research has won several best paper awards including the Management Science Best Publication Award, the Responsible Operations Management Best Publication Award, and enjoyed coverage by The Economist, New York Times, CNN, Forbes, NPR, etc.

She serves as a Department Editor at Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and an Associate Editor at Management Science and Operations Research.

She hold a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Management Science from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University, China.