Research Collaboration
Carri Chan, Fangruo Chen, Shuyu Chen, Ki Ling Cheung, Davide Crapis, Zheng Cui, Awi Federgruen, Guillermo Gallego, Linda Green, Yonatan Gur, Albert Ha, Costis Maglaras, Zhe Liu, David Simchi-Levi, Zhuoyu Long, Max Shen, Jeannette Song, Garrett Van Ryzin, Ruxian Wang, Gabriel Weintraub, Yaozhong Wu, Xiaoming Yan, Assaf Zeevi, Hanqin Zhang,...
Students Advising and Collaborations
PhD thesis supervision (primary advisor):
Xinyi Zhou (BSc in Physics), PhD student @HKUST Business School, Aug 2021 - present
Honorable mention in the 2023 POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition.
Ce Zhang (MSc in Management Science and Engineering), PhD student @HKUST Business School, Aug 2022 - present
PhD thesis committee member:
Zheng Xie (ISOM-HKUST, 2025), first placement: Postdoc, HKUST Business School
Chen Yang (IEDA-HKUST, 2025), first placement: Assistant Professor, School of Management @Zhejiang University
Huijun Chen (ISOM-HKUST, 2024), first placement: Postdoc, HKUST Business School
Ailing Xu (ISOM-HKUST, 2024), first placement: Assistant Professor, School of Management @Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Jianyue Wang (ISOM-HKUST, 2022), first placement: Assistant Professor, School of Management @Dalian University of Technology
Shuyu Chen (OM-Duke University, 2022), first placement: Operation Research Consultant @American Airline
Primary advisors: Jeannette Song and Yehua Wei
RAs
Xin Weng (PhD in Operations Management @Tsinghua University, 2025), Fall 2023 - Fall 2025.
First placement: Assistant Professor, School of Management @Fuzhou University
Hexiao Liu (PhD in Operations Management @Zhejiang University), Spring 2025.
Xinru Hu (PhD in MSE @Huazhong University of Science and Technology), RA in Spring 2024.
Honorable mention in the 2025 POMS-China Best Student Paper Competition.
Xinran Du (MSc in Operations Management @Tsinghua University, 2024), RA in Spring 2023.
First placement: PhD @ Fuqua Business School, Duke University
Xiaotong Liu (PhD in Operations Research @Tsinghua University), RA in Spring 2023.
Former UG Students
Shuhan Wan (UG @HKUST), Spring 2022, MSc @Columbia University
Chang Su (UG @HKUST), Fall 2022, Wharton @University of Pennsylvania
Opportunities( please drop me an email if you are highly self-motivated with solid analytical skills and interested in: )
A strong mathematical background and interested in an academic career. Interested in improving real-world's efficiency by solving challenging problems from various business environments, self-motivated to write high-quality academic papers.
A strong mathematical and/or computational backgroud, and interested in hedgefund career. Professor Lu was Founder and Chief Investment Officer at UniQuant capital. We also partner with quantitative research teams at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, CICC, UniQuant, Springs-capital. Our research is practice oriented and is used in capital market to make quantitative investment decisions.
A solid background in big-data related methodology and algorithm, and interested in data-driven optimization with big-data set. Our research projects are partnered with three different sectors: Logistics and E-commerce, Finance, Healthcare. A common feature is data-driven with big data analytics. Excellence in programming and proficiency in machine learning algorithms are plus points.