(Student coauthor； *corresponding author)

Research Interests:  platform ecosystems, consumer behavior modeling, and data-driven decision optimization

Journal Papers 

1. “Privacy-Preserving Personalized Recommender Systems”

   • Xingyu Fu, Ningyuan Chen, Pin Gao*, and Yang Li.

   • Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), 2025.

2. “Optimal Job Assignment with Spillover Effects”

   • Xingyu Fu, Ying-Ju Chen, Pin Gao*, and Haoyu Liu.

   • Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 2025.

3. "Position Auctions with Endogenous Product Information: Why Live-Streaming Advertising is Thriving"

   • Ying-Ju Chen, Guillermo Gallergo, Pin Gao*, and Yang Li.

   • Featured by Management Science on its official LinkedIn channel.

   • Management Science (MS), 2025. 

4. "When to Conceal Attribute Information? The Roles of Consumer Search, Inventory, and Selling Mechanisms"

   • Zihao Chen, Xingyu Fu*, Pin Gao, and Ying-Ju Chen.

   • Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), 2025.

5. “Designing Emission Permits Regulation for Multiple Compliance Periods”

   • Xingyu Fu, Ying-Ju Chen, Guillermo Gallego, Pin Gao*, and Mengqian Lu.

   • Second Place, Best Paper Award, POMS-China, 2022

   • Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award, POMS-HK, 2022

   • Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), 2025.

6. “Fairness Regulation of Prices in Competitive Markets”

   • Zongsen Yang, Xingyu Fu*, Pin Gao, and Ying-Ju Chen.

   • Featured by InsuranceBusiness News.

   • Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), 2024.

7. “Dealership or Marketplace with Fulfillment Services: A Dynamic Comparison”

   • Guokai Li, Ningyuan Chen, Guillermo Gallego, Pin Gao*, and Steven Kou.

   • Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), 2024.

8. “Optimal Emission Regulation under Market Uncertainty”

   • Guokai Li, Pin Gao*, and Zizhuo Wang.

   • Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 2024.

9. “Does the Prohibition of Trade-Through Hurt Liquidity Demanders?”

   • Ningyuan Chen, Pin Gao*, and Steven Kou.

   • Operations Research (OR), 2023.

10. “Free Add-Ons in Services”

    • Pin Gao, Xingyu Fu, Haoyu Liu*, and Ying-Ju Chen.

    • Service Science, 2022.

11. “Resource Allocation Among Competing Innovators”

    • Pin Gao, Xiaoshuai Fan*, Sunny Huang, and Ying-Ju Chen.

    • Featured by Hong Kong Economic Times.

    • Management Science (MS), 2021. 

12. “Assortment Optimization and Pricing Under the Multinomial Logit Model with Impatient Customers: Sequential Recommendation and Selection”

    • Pin Gao, Yuhang Ma, Ningyuan Chen, Guillermo Gallego, Anran Li, Paat Rusmevichientong, and Huseyin Topaloglu

    • Operations Research (OR), 2021.

13. “Symmetry-Protected Non-Abelian Braiding of Majorana Kramers’ Pairs”

    • Pin Gao, Yingping He, and Xiong-Jun Liu*.

    • Physics Review B. (PRB), 2016. 

Conference Proceedings

1. “Prophet Inequalities with Stochastic Choices”

   • WINE: Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Web and Internet Economics, 2025.

2. “Assortment Optimization for the Multinomial Logit Model with Repeated Customer Interactions”, under revision.

   • WINE: Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Web and Internet Economics, 2025.

3. “Robust Optimal Selling Mechanism under Non-linear Utility”

   • Pin Gao, Yicheng Liu, Shixin Wang, Zhen Wang, and Zizhuo Wang.

   • Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award, POMS-China, 2025

   • WINE: Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, 2024.

   • Under revision at a journal.

4. “When to Push Ads: Optimal Mobile Ad Campaign Strategy under Markov Customer Dynamics”, under revision

   • Guokai Li, Pin Gao, and Zizhuo Wang.

   • Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award, POMS-HK, 2024

   • WINE: Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, 2024.

5. "Regulating Discriminatory Pricing in the Presence of Tacit Collusion", under revision

   • Zongsen Yang, Xiao Lei, and Pin Gao.

   • Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Competition, 2024

   • Featured by Financial Times Chinese.

   • WINE: Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, 2024.

6. “Sequential Assortment Recommendation under the Impatient Mixed Cascade Model”

   • Pin Gao, Yicheng Liu, Chenhao Wang, and Zizhuo Wang.

   • WINE: Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, 2023.

Working Papers

• “Assortment Optimization with Downward Feasibility: Efficient Heuristics Based on Independent Demands”.

  • Guillermo Gallego, Pin Gao, Shaoyu Wang, and Gerardo Berbeglia.

  • Invited Speech, The 19th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, 2024.

  • Invited Speech, The 7th Management Science Symposium for Young Scholars, 2024.

• “RCS Approximations for Assortment Optimization with Sequential Consumer Behavior”.

  • Pin Gao, Yicheng Liu, Chenhao Wang, and Zizhuo Wang.

  • First Place, Best Paper Award, National Conference on Supply Chain and Operations Management, 2023

• "Menu Optimization for Meal Delivery Platforms", reject and resubmit.

  • Saman Lagzi, Ningyuan Chen, Pin Gao, Sheng Liu, and Chenhao Wang.

• "Robust Pricing with Consumer Search"

  • Hao Qiu, Ying-Ju Chen, Pin Gao,  and Simai He.

• “The Optimization of Inbound Marketing: Assortment Planning, Pricing Management, and Paid Advertising”

  • Shujie Luan, Pin Gao, Weili Xue, and Ruxian Wang.

• "The Economics of Sponsored Search with AI-Generated Ad Content"

  • Shaoyu Wang, Ying-Ju Chen, Pin Gao, and Yang Li.

  • Third Prize, Best Paper Award, POMS-China, 2025

• "Data-driven End-to-end Assortment Optimization with Transaction Data"

  • Andre Cire, Ningyuan Chen, Pin Gao, and Shaoyu Wang.

• "Personalized Product Recommendations with Exponential Bandits"

  • Kanglin Chen, Ying-Ju Chen, Guillermo Gallego, Pin Gao, and Haoyu Liu.

• "Acquisition or Extortion? Policy Implementation by a Powerful Principal"

  • Xingyu Fu, Ying-Ju Chen, Guillermo Gallego, and Pin Gao.