Research

Research Interests

Methodology: Statistical and Machine Learning, Data-Driven and Approximation Algorithm, Asymptotic Analysis

Application: Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Inventory Control, Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing

Working Papers

• Managing Perishable Inventory Systems with Positive Lead Times: Inventory Position vs. Projected Inventory Level (with Xiting Gong and Huanyu Yin)

  • Under major revision at Management Science

  • POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition 2024, Honorable Mention (Awardee: Huanyu Yin)

  • MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG Presentation 2024

• Asymptotic Optimality of Simple Replenishment Policies for a Lost-Sales Inventory System with Delivery Lead Time and Purchase Returns (with Huanan Zhang and Stefanus Jasin)

  • Under major revision at Management Science

• Context-Based Dynamic Pricing with Separable Demand Models (with David Simchi-Levi and Chonghuan Wang)

  • Under minor revision at Management Science

  • Preliminary version appeared in NeurIPS 2022

Publications

• Asymptotic Scaling of Optimal Cost and Asymptotic Optimality of Base-Stock Policy in Several Multi-Dimensional Inventory Systems (with Xiting Gong and Xiuli Chao)

  • Forthcoming at Operations Research

• Asymptotic Optimality of Base-Stock Policies for Perishable Inventory Systems (with Xiting Gong and Xiuli Chao) 

  • Management Science, 69(2): 846-864, 2023 [Journal version]

• Offline Pricing and Demand Learning with Censored Data (with David Simchi-Levi and Li Wang)

  • Management Science, 69(2): 885-903, 2023 [Journal version]

• Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law​ (with David Simchi-Levi and Yunzong Xu)

  • Management Science, 68(12): 8568-8588, 2022 [Journal version]

  • Preliminary version appeared in ICML 2020

  • Best Paper (Theoretical Track) for INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics 2020, Winner

• Constant-Order Policies for Lost-Sales Inventory Models with Random Supply Functions: Asymptotics and Heuristic (with Xiting Gong and Dacheng Yao) 

  • Operations Research, 68(4): 1063-1073, 2020 [Journal version]

  • POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition 2018, Honorable Mention