Research Interest

• Methodology: game theory, modelling and design of service systems, optimization, data mining using econometric and statistical tools, structural estimation.

• Application: supply chain management, pricing and revenue management, platform economics, sustainable operations.

Publication (*stands for a student coauthor)

• Journal Publications

  1. "Efficient Frontier and Applications in Product Offering and Pricing" with Chenxu Ke and Ruxian Wang, 2025, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 

  2. "Information Sharing and Financing Services on Online Retailing Platforms" with Xinru Hu* and Jianbin Li, 2025, Production and Operations Management.

  3. "Dual Sourcing: Creating and Utilizing Flexible Capacities with a Second Supply Source" with Zhe Liu and Awi Federgruen, 2022, Production and Operations Management.
     2nd Place, POMS College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition, 2018
     2nd Place, POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, 2019

  4. "Synthesis and Generalization of Structural Results in Inventory Management: A Generalized Convexity Property" with Zhe Liu and Awi Federgruen, 2020, Mathematics of Operations Research.
     Finalist, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 2018

  5. "Assessing the Impact of Service Level when Customer Needs are Uncertain: An Empirical Investigation of Hospital Step-Down Units" with Carri W. Chan, Linda V. Green, and Gabriel Escobar, 2019,  Management Science. 

  6. "Framework Agreement in Procurement: An Auction Model and Design Recommendations" with Yonnata Gur and Gabriel Weintraub, 2018, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

  7. "Optimal and Asymptotically Optimal Policies for Assemble-to-Order N- and W- Systems" with Jing-sheng Song and Hanqing Zhang, 2016, Naval Research Logistics. 

  8. "Capacity Investment Decisions under Risk Aversion" with Xiaoming Yan, 2016, Naval Research Logistics. 

  9. "Preferences on Contractual Forms in Supply Chains" with Yaozhong Wu, 2015, European Journal of Operational Research.

• Papers under review and revision

  1. "Navigating Traceability: How Pricing and Responsibility Sharing Affect Product Quality and Supply Chain Welfare" with Ruxian Wang and Xinyi Zhou*, under review.
     Honorable mention, POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, 2023

  2. "Price Competition Based on Relative Prices" with Awi Federgruen, major revision.

  3. "The Power of Reactive Upgrades in Dynamic Resource Allocation with General Upgrading" with Zheng Cui and Daniel Zhuoyu Long, major revision.
     2nd Prize, The 20th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, 2025

  4. "Service Deployment in the On-Demand Economy: Employees, Contractors, or Both? " with Xin Weng* and Li Xiao, major revision.

  5. "Pricing and Information Provision in Service Platforms with Heterogeneous Customers" with Xin Weng* and Li Xiao, major revision.

• Selected working papers and work-in-progress

  1. "When Ethics Meet Algorithms: Corporate Social Responsibility in Personalized Pricing and Network Effects".

  2. "Price Fairness in Networked Markets: Regulatory Approaches to Third-Degree Price Discrimination".

  3. "Fake It Till You Fund It: The Rise of Exploitative Practices in Online Crowdfunding Marketplaces" with Xinru Hu* and Jianbin Li.
     Honorable mention, POMS-China Best Student Paper Competition, 2025

  4. "Optimizing Assemble-to-Order Systems: Decomposition Heuristics and Scalable Algorithms" with Shuyu Chen*, Jeannette Song and Hanqin Zhang.

  5. "Competitive Option Offerings Under Supply Disruptions" with Xiaotong Liu*, Max Shen, and Li Xiao.

  6. "Medicare Reform: Estimation of Impacts of Premium Support Systems" with Awi Federgruen.

  7. "Oligopolistic Competition in Online Marketplaces: Equilibrium Analysis and System Coordination" with Guillermo Gallego and Xinyi Zhou*.