(* Student co-authors)
Working Papers
4. Optimal Pricing for Queueing Systems with Loss-Averse Customers, with Jian Cao*, Yongjiang Guo and Junfei Huang. [SSRN]
3. Learning to Rank under Strategic "Brush Wars", with Qinzhen Li* and Yifan Feng. [SSRN]
Preliminary version selected for MSOM Service SIG 2023 conference and the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC '24) [Link]
2. Supply Disruption in Multi-Tier Supply Chains: Competition and Network Configuration, with Yixin Zhu* and Sean X. Zhou. [SSRN]
Featured in CUHK China Business Knowledge [Link]
1. When A Platform Competes with Third-Party Sellers in Networked Markets: A Revenue Management Perspective, with Hai Wang. [SSRN]
Journal Publication
5. Optimal Growth in Two-Sided Marketplaces with Heterogeneous Agents, with Yixin Zhu*, Renyu P. Zhang and Sean X. Zhou. Production and Operations Management, 2025 [POM][Full Version in SSRN]
Preliminary version selected for MSOM Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship SIG 2024 conference
Featured in CUHK China Business Knowledge [Link]
4. Markdown Policies for Demand Learning with Forward-looking Customers, with John R. Birge and N. Bora Keskin. Operations Research, 2025. [OR][SSRN]
Featured in Chicago Booth Review [Link]
3. To Interfere or Not To Interfere: Information Revelation and Price-Setting Incentives in a Multiagent Learning Environment, with John R. Birge, N.Bora Keskin and Amy R. Ward. Operations Research, 2024, Vol. 72, No. 6, 2391-2412. [OR][Full Version in SSRN]
Featured in Chicago Booth Review [Link], CUHK China Business Knowledge [Link] and UNSW BusinessThink [Link]
2. Robust Optimization with Continuous Decision-Dependent Uncertainty with Applications in Demand Response Portfolio Management, with Andy X. Sun and Haoxiang Yang. SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2023, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2406 - 2434. [SIOPT] [Optimization-Online]
1. Optimal Commissions and Subscriptions in Networked Markets, with John R. Birge, Ozan Candogan and Daniela Saban. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2021, Vol. 23, No. 3, 569–588. [MSOM] [Full Version in SSRN]
Preliminary version in the 19th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC '18) [Link]
Funding
4. General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant (PI), $503,000 HKD, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2026-2027
3. Early Career Scheme (ECS) Research Grant (PI), $372,497 HKD, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2025-2026
2. General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant (PI), $388,345 HKD, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2024-2025
1. General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant (PI), $521,601 HKD, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2023-2024
Student Placement
2. Yixin Zhu (PhD at CUHK Business School): Assistant Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - Fall 2025
1. Jian Cao (Postdoc at CUHK Business School): Assistant Professor at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics - Fall 2024