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Working Papers

1. Yang Zhang, Jianjun Gao and Zhen Wang. 2025. Explicit Bounds for Distortion Risk Measures under Ambiguity: Quantile and Distribution-Based Optimization.

2. Jiawen Yang, Caihua Chen, Zhen Wang, and Zizhuo Wang. 2025. Joint Pricing and Inventory Decisions under Unknown Demand: A Satisficing Approach with Shape Information.

3. Zhen Wang, Hao Qiu, and Zhi Chen. 2025. Ranking (Correlated) Distributions with Limited Information.

4. Chenyu Huang, Bo Jiang, Zhen Wang, and Jiawei Zhang. 2025. Tractable Robust Mechanism Design with Concave Piecewise Linear Approximation.

   • Honorable mentions in the 2024 ISCOM Best Student Paper Award, 2025.

   • The first place in the 2025 POMS-China Best Student Paper Award, 2025.

5. Yan Ge, Simai He, Zhen Wang, and Zizhuo Wang. 2025. Optimal Robust Pricing with Minimal Information.

   • The third place in the 2025 POMS-China Best Student Paper Award, 2025.

6. Guillermo Gallego, Pin Gao, and Zhen Wang. 2024. Assortment Optimization with Consumer Search: Approximations and Applications.

7. Pin Gao, Yicheng Liu, Shixin Wang, Zhen Wang, and Zizhuo Wang. 2024. Robust Optimal Selling Mechanism under Non-linear Utility.

   • 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), 2024.

   • Finalist, Student Selected Paper, The 1st ORSC Data Science Summit, 2024.

   • Honorable mentions in the 2025 POMS-China Best Student Paper Award, 2025

8. Jiayi Guo, Simai He, Bo Jiang, and Zhen Wang. 2023. A Unified Framework for Generalized Moment Problems: A Novel Primal-Dual Approach. 

9. Zhou Chen, Qi Qi, Changjun Wang, and Zhen Wang. 2022. Simple and (Approximately) Optimal Mechanism in Efficiency and Equality Trade-off.

Publications 

1. Jiayi Guo, Hao Qiu, Zhen Wang, Zizhuo Wang, and Xinxin Zhang. 2025. Distributionally Robust Optimization under Mean-Covariance Ambiguity Set and Half-Space Support for Bivariate Problems, Operations Research Letters. (forthcoming)

2. Zhou Chen, Simai He, Zhen Wang*, Meng Zheng. 2025. Robust Monopoly Pricing with Asymmetric Information, Production and Operations Management. (forthcoming) [Link]

   1. The second place in the 2023 POMS-China Best Student Paper Award, 2023.

3. Qiaozhen Qin, Hualin Liu, Zhiwei Wei, Suri Liu, Zhen Wang, Simai He. 2025. Crude Oil Scheduling for Coastal Refineries with Long-Distance Pipelines: Application of Mixed-Integer Programming and Supervised Learning, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. [Link]

4. Hao Qiu, Zhen Wang*, Simai He. 2023. Separation in Distributionally Robust Monopolist Problem.19th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE).

5. Shengyu Cao, Simai He, Zhening Li, Zhen Wang. 2023. Extreme ratios among Frobenius, spectral and nuclear norms of tensor, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. [Link]

6. Danli Yao, Simai He, Zhen Wang. 2021.  A new ride-sharing model incorporating the passengers, Naval Research Logistics. [Link]

Grants

1. NSFC Research Funding 72301235 (Young Scientists Fund), Distributionally Robust Price Mechanism Design under Uncertainty (Principal Investigator).   01/2024-12/2026.

2. NSFC Research Funding 72192832 (Major Research Plan), Supply and Demand Risk Identification and Management Mechanism of Manufacturing Cycle Industrial System (Participant, Principal Investigator: Simai He).     01/2022-12/2026.

3. NSFC Research Funding 72394363 (Major Research Plan), Mathematical Programming Approaches and Applications in Uncertain (Participant, Principal Investigator: Caihua Chen).    01/ 2024-12/2028