Published Papers:
Self Control in the Face of Multiple Projects, with Qing Li, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Online, 2025
Can present bias explain why people multitask?
Pricing Durable Add-ons: Selling vs. Leasing, with Haiyang He and Lei Lei, Management Science, Online, 2025
Should durable-goods monopolists sell or lease add-ons?
Signaling Targeting Cost through List Price, with Jiahua Zhang, Management Science, Online, 2024
What's the role of list prices when firms can offer personalized prices?
Full Quantity or Full Credit? Choosing the Right Buyback Policy for A Behavioral Retailer, with Yinghao Zhang and Tianjun Feng, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, November 2024
When is a full-credit partial-quantity buyback contract better than a full-quantity partial-credit contract?
A Sequential Model for High-Volume Recruitment Under Random Yields, with Lilun Du and Qing Li, Operations Research, January 2024
In a high-volume recruitment process, how to determine the number of phases and the quantity of offers to extend in each phase?
A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Hotel Revenue Management with Evidence from Field Experiments, with Ji Chen, Yifan Xu and Jun Zhang, Journal of Operations Management, October 2023
Journal of Operations Management 2024 Jack Meredith Best Paper Award (Finalists)
A simple RL approach for a budget hotel chain's RM problem, driven by practical implementation considerations.
Traffic Channeling Under Uncertain Conversion Rates on E-Commerce Platforms, with Zhoupeng Jack Zhang and Qing Li, Naval Research Logistics, February 2023
How does demand steering, based on conversion rates and product availability, impact platforms and merchants?
Separation of Perishable Inventories in Offline Retailing through Transshipment, with Lilun Du and Qing Li, Operations Research, March 2022
For perishables, transshipment serves the dual purpose of balancing inventory and separating items of different ages into distinct outlets.
Admission Control Game with Capacity Borrowing, with Tianxiang Wang and Jianqiang Hu, Production and Operations Management, February 2022
A decentralized admission control system with endogenous capacity sharing can achieve the first-best outcome.
The Secretary Problem with Multiple Job Vacancies and Batch Candidate Arrivals, with Qing Li, Operations Research Letters, July 2021
A recruiter can benefit from having a more diverse and less interdependent pool of candidates.
Shelf Life Extending Packaging, Inventory Control and Grocery Retailing, with Qing Li and Xiaoli Wu, Production and Operations Management, July 2017
When should a retailer use shelf life extending packaging?
Managing Perishable Inventories in Retailing: Replenishment, Clearance sales, and Segregation, with Qing Li and Xiaoli Wu, Operations Research, November 2016
Why does near-expired inventory deserve special attention?
Multimodularity and its Applications in Three Stochastic Dynamic Inventory Problems, with Qing Li, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Summer 2014
A methodology for analyzing dynamic programs where state and decision variables are economic substitutes.
On the Quasiconcavity of Lost-sales Inventory Models with Fixed Costs, with Qing Li, Operations Research, March 2012
A unified analysis of several dynamic inventory problems with fixed costs.
Book Chapters, and Publications in Chinese:
Perishable Inventory Systems, with Qing Li, In Research Handbook on Inventory Management, edited by J. S. Song. Edward Elgar Publishing, August 2023
Personalized Dynamic Promotion Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning, with Cheng Zhang, Furong Wang and Haowen Deng, Management World, May 2023
in Chinese: 基于深度增强学习的个性化动态促销, 《管理世界》