Dr. Rui Chen (陈瑞）

Education

• 2015.08—2019.01 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • • • • • • • • Ph.D in Management Science and Engineering

                • Dissertation: Assortment and Price Optimization under Variants of Discrete Choice Models

                • Department of Industrial Engineering

                • Advisor: Associate Professor Hai Jiang

                • Core course GPA: 3.4/4.0; Ranking: 2/28

                • Research interests: Revenue Management, Discrete Choice Modeling, Omni-channel Retailing

• 2011.08—2015.07 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • • • • • • • • Bachelor of Science, majoring in Mathematics and Physics

                • Department of Physics

                • Core course GPA: 89/100; Ranking: 5/47

Professional Experience

• 2021.07—Present Taote Division, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China

  • • • • • • • • Senior algorithm engineer

                • Revenue management, Assortment planning, and Algorithms on product operations

• 2019.02—2021.06 Alibaba Supply Chain Platform, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China

  • • • • • • • • Senior algorithm engineer

                • Assortment Optimization and Pricing

                • Assortment and price optimization problem is one of the most important and classical operational problems faced by retailers and firms. Its goal is to identify the revenue-maximizing subset of substitutable products as well as their selling prices subject to pre-determined operational constraints

Experience

• 2018.11—2019.01 Algorithm Engineer Intern, Alibaba Group, Beijing, China

• 2018.07—2018.12 Quant Camp Lecture Series, PBCSF, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• 2018.04—2018.06 Quantitative Researcher Intern, RuiFeng Investment, Beijing, China

• 2017.12—2018.02 Online Part-time Assistant, McKinsey&Company, Shanghai, China

• 2015.06—2015.09 Research Intern, THUPDI, Beijing, China

Publications

[1] 陈瑞, 姜海*. 基于 Logit 离散选择模型的品类优化问题综述. 运筹学学报, 2017, 21(4):118-134.

[2] Jiang^*, H., R. Chen, and H. Sun (2017). "Multiproduct price optimization under the multilevel nested logit model." Annals of Operations Research, 254(1-2):131-164.

[3] Chen, R. and H. Jiang^* (2017). "Capacitated assortment and price optimization for customers with disjoint consideration sets." Operations Research Letters, 45(2):170-174.

[4] Chen, R. and H. Jiang^* (2019), "Capacitated assortment and price optimization under the multilevel nested logit model." Operations Research Letters, 47(1):30-35.

[5] Chen, R. and H. Jiang*(2020), "Assortment optimization with position effects under the nested logit model." Naval Research Logistics, 67(1):21-33.

[6] Chen, R. and H. Jiang*(2020), "Capacitated assortment and price optimization under the nested logit model." Journal of Global Optimization, 77:895-918.

Conference Papers

[1] Zhang, D., Z. Zhong, C. Gao, and R. Chen* (2018). "Assortment optimization with pricing under the paired combinatorial logit model." in 2018 IEEM, 417-421.

Working Papers

[1] Jiang*, H., R. Chen, "Position-aware recommender systems: Optimizing product display positions to maximize conversion." Under revision for resubmission;

[2] Xu, J., R. Chen, and H. Jiang*, "Joint assortment-price-position optimization under the exponomial choice model." Under revision for resubmission;

Awards and Achievements

• Outstanding Postgraduate Student in Beijing, 2019 (Top 3%)

• National Scholarship of China, Tsinghua University, 2017 (Top 1%)

• Best Student Paper, 2016 Postgraduate Student Forum on Industrial Engineering, 2016

• Tang OOCL Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2016 (Top 3%)

• Meritorious Winner, US Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) by COMAP, 2015

• Scholarship of Excellence, Tsinghua University, 2012-2014 (Top 10%)

Related Skills

Languages Mandarin (native), English (proficient)

Computer Skills Programming languages: C/C++, Java, Python

Data Analytics and Database Tools: Matlab, R, SAS, Mysql

Other CFA Level I (Passed)

Driving licenses(C1)