Publications

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW/REVISIONS

• • The Paradox of Choice: Why Less Can Be More in Decentralized Resource Sharing System. withJinjia Huang, Mabel Chou and CP Teo. 

• Return or Not? Joint Pricing and Refund Optimization for Omni­channel Retailing. With Shouchang Chen, Yun Fong Lim and Yimeng Sun. 

       --- 2nd Prize, Best Paper competition in the National Conference on Supply Chain and Operation Management (ISCOM), 2022

PUBLISHED JOURNAL PAPERS

1. Fully Online Matching with General Stochastic Arrivals and Departures. with Li Z.H.* and Wang H.+. 

Operations Research. (2025) Accepted.

       ---Preliminary version has been accepted by AAAI 2023.

2. Strategic Idling in Appointment Systems with Sequential Servers. with Goh Y.*, Li Z.H.*.

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. (2025) Accepted.

3. Learning Mixed Multinomial Logits with Provable Guarantees and its Applications in Multi-product Pricing. with Hu Y.*, Liu L.*, SimchiLevi D.. 

Management Science. (2024) Accepted.

4. Data-Driven Distributionally Robust CVaR Portfolio Optimization Under Regime-Switching Ambiguity Set. With Pun C.S. and Wang T.Y..*

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. (2023) Accepted.

5. Managing The Personalized Order-Holding Problem in Online Retailing. With Chen S.C.+ and Lim Y.F..

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. (2023) Accepted.

6. Appointment Systems under Service Level Constraints. [Online Supplement for Additional Proofs] with Benjaafar S., Chen D., Wang R.. 

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. (2022) Accepted.

7. A Non-asymptotic Analysis for Re-solving Heuristic in Online Matching. with Wang H.+, Bei X.H.. 

Production and Operations Management. (2022) 31(8), 3096-3124. 

8. Distributionally Robust Linear and Discrete Optimization with Marginals. with Chen L., Ma W., Natarajan K., Simchi-Levi D..

Operations Research. (2022) 70(3), 1293-1952.

9. A Representative Consumer Model in Data-Driven Multi-Product Pricing Optimization. with Natarajan K., Teo C.P., Cheng C.. 

Management Science. (2022)  68(8), 5557-6354.

10. Managing stochastic bucket brigades on discrete work stations. with Wang P.* , Pan K., Lim Y..

Production and Operations Management. (2022) 31(1), 358-373.

11. Discovering optimal strategies for mitigating COVID-19 spread using machine learning: Experience from Asia. with Pan Y*., Zhang L.M., , Lwind M.O. and Skibniewskie, M.J..

Sustainable Cities and Society. (2021) 75, 103254.

12. Appointment Scheduling Under Time-Dependent Patient No-Show Behavior. with Kong Q. X., Li S., Liu N., Teo C. P.. 

Management Science (2020) 66(8), 3480-3500.

13. Disruption risk mitigation in supply chains: The risk exposure index revisited. with Gao Y, Simchi-Levi D., Teo C. P..

Operations Research  (2019) 67(3), 831- 852.

14. On the Design of Sparse but Efficient Structures in Operations. with Gao Y., Teo C. P.. 

Management Science (2018) 64(7), 3421-3445.

* indicates a student collaborator, + indicates a research staff in my group.

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS

     15. Fully Online Matching with Stochastic Arrivals and Departures. with Li Z.H* and Wang H.+. AAAI 2023.

     16. Learning Mixed Multinomial Logits with Provable Guarantees. with Hu Y.*, SimchiLevi D.. NeurIPS 2022.

     17. Proportional Allocation of Indivisible Resources under Ordinal and Uncertain Preferences. with Li Z.*, Bei X.. UAI 2022.

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS 

1. Yan Z., Chen Y.W., Xing L.N.. (2014) Agile satellite scheduling based on improved ant colony algorithm. Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice. 34(3): 793-801.

2. Yan Z., Xing L.N., Chen Y.W.. (2013) Ant Colony Algorithm with Recommendation of Operations for Task Allocation Problems, Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems. 19(9), 2220-2228.

3. Lian Z., Tan Y.J., Yan Z. (2013) Temporal reasoning technology for AEOS scheduling. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics. 35(6): 1206-1211.