Yi Zhuang

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Operations and Decision Analytics at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY, advised by Arash Asadpour and Yuan-Mao Kao. I expect to graduate in May 2027 and am on the 2026-27 academic job market.

My research studies consumer-driven resource allocation in service industries, combining optimization theory with dynamic choice modeling. I focus on pricing and matching decisions in two settings: dynamic environments with demand uncertainty and limited capacity, and large-scale, data-rich environments where tractable optimization formulations yield implementable policies. Current projects include dynamic pricing of split stays, pricing and allocation of presale vouchers, and matching markets with search frictions.

I also teach undergraduate analytics and operations courses at Baruch as sole instructor, and I mentor final analytics projects in the Executive Education healthcare analytics course.

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