Mengzhenyu (Zhenyu) Zhang
University College London
School of Management
Operations and Technology
Assistant Professor
Email: zhenyu.zhangmeng [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk
Welcome to my website!
I am currently an assistant professor in Operations & Technology at the UCL School of Management. I graduated from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, where I obtained my PhD in Technology and Operations. I was advised by Hyun-Soo Ahn and Joline Uichanco.
You can find my CV here.
Research
Published articles and working papers
Data-Driven Pricing for a New Product. (link)
With Hyun-Soo Ahn and Joline Uichanco.
Operations Research 70(2):847-866 Mar 2022.
Benefits of collaboration in capacity investment and allocation. (link)
With Hyun-Soo Ahn, Eren Cetinkaya, and Izak Duenyas.
Accepted at Production and Operations Management.
On the performance of certainty-equivalent pricing. (link)
With Hyun-Soo Ahn, Christopher Thomas Ryan, and Joline Uichanco.
Major revision at Mathematics of Operations Research.
Spotlight presentation at 2019 Revenue Management & Pricing Conference
Attribute-based Pricing: A Novel Formulation and Convergent Algorithms. (link)
With Christopher Thomas Ryan, Wei Sun, and Markus Ettl.
Reject and Resubmit at Management Science.
Valuing influence. (link)
With Hyun-Soo Ahn, Christopher Thomas Ryan, and Joline Uichanco.
Submitted.
Work-in-progress
Multi-tiered supply chain finance.
With Roman Kapuscinski and Rodney Parker.
In preparation.
Signaling or learning for lean startups.
With Runshan Fu and Christopher Ryan.
Work in progress.
Industry Experience
IBM Research. 2021.9 - 2022.7
AI Marketing postdoctoral researcher
Patent: P202200796US01 Search order and rate determination in attribute-based environmentsÂ
Oracle Lab. 2018.5 - 2018.8
Machine learning research group
Patent: ORA190195 (2011-0568US01)
Teaching
University College London, School of Management
Module Leader
MSIN0095 Operations Analytics, Masters of Business Analytics core module (Winter 2023, Winter 2024)
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Instructor
TO 302 Operations Management, undergraduate business minor core course (Winter 2018)
Teaching Assistant
TO 567 Data Mining and Business Analytics, MBA course (Winter 2019, Fall 2019)
TO 572 Applied Business Forecasting, MBA course (Fall 2019)
EMBA 610 Managerial Big Data Analytics, EMBA course (Summer 2019)
TO 899 Inventory Management / Supply Chain Management, Doctoral course (Fall 2018)
EMBA 603 Business Analytics and Statistics for Executives, EMBA course (Fall 2018)
TO 618 Applied Business Analytics, MBA course (Fall 2017, Winter 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
TO 502 Business Statistics, MBA core course (Fall 2017)
TO 605 Manufacturing and Supply Operations, MBA course (Winter 2017)
TO 301 Business Analytics and Statistics, BBA core course (Fall 2016)
Miscellaneous
I started to play the violin since 5 years old. Now I'm obsessed with guitar fingerstyle.
I do some drawings for fun. Check the slides template (Ross School of Business theme, Microsoft Office, Mac Keynote, font) I drew.