I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, collaborating with Prof. Zuo-Jun Max Shen. I was an Instructor at Rutgers University.
I got my Ph.D. degree, with the concentration on Operations Research, from the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at Rutgers University, under the supervision of Prof. Jian Yang. Before that, I received my M.Sc. in Information Technology and Analytics from Rutgers University, and my B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and B.A. in Business Administration from University of Electronics Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
Research Interests: Revenue Management, Inventory Control, Game-theoretic Applications, Data-driven Modeling, Reinforcement Learning, Business Intelligence, Combinatorial Optimization, Transportation Engineering
CV (updated 2024.01.30)
Committee: Andrzej Ruszczynski, Endre Boros, Thomas Lidbetter, and Ming Hu
Adviser: Hui Xiong
How Many Are Too Many? Analyzing Dockless Bikesharing Systems with a Parsimonious Model Hongyu Zheng, Kenan Zhang, Macro Nie, Pengyu Yan, Yuan Qu Transportation Science, 58(1):152-175, 2023.
Opaque Selling to Strategic Buyers Yuan Qu, Jian Yang Under Review
Inventory Control involving Opaque Selling Yuan Qu, Jian Yang
Building Resilience During Crises: A Big Data Empowered Reinforcement Learning Approach for Airline Insurance Jingjing Li, Yuan Qu, Jingyuan Yang (author names in alphabetical order) Information Systems Research, R & R, To be resubmitted
Matching-while-learning Algorithm for Dynamic Matching Problem of Cloud Manufacturing Platforms with Incomplete Information Pengyu Yan, Liu Yang, Yuan Qu
Diminishing Social Capital Returns from Employee Ambassadorship: Evidence from WeChat Chaitanya Kaligotla, Sarah Wittman, Jingyuan Yang, Yuan Qu, Wei Zeng Under Review
Collaborate in research principally with Professor Z.M. Shen of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, or other teachers as appropriate.
Product and Operations Management, Undergraduate, 29:623:311, Fall 2022 Management Information System, Undergraduate, 33:136:370, Spring 2020 - Spring 2022 Statistical Methods for Business, Undergraduate, 33:136:385, Fall 2019 Business Data Management, Graduate, 26:198:603 & 26:544:603, Fall 2019
Built an offline evaluation pipeline for online recommendation algorithms.
Business Data Management, Graduate, 544:603, Spring 2018 Data Mining, Graduate, 198:650, Spring 2018
Develop web system and stock evaluation system. Collect all financial report data from SZSE & SSE. Estimate stock price by using absolute & relative value assessment model. Develop stock investment strategy system. Build auto-investment system based on specific strategy.
Inventory Control involving Opaque Selling 14th POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phenix, AZ, 2023
Understanding Opaque Selling from an Inventory-control Perspective Invited Research Seminar, UESTC, Chengdu, China, 2023 Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2022 Invited Research Seminar, Stony Brook University, Virtual, 2020
Drivers For Personal Social Marketing Effectiveness: A Joint View Of Content And Diffusion INFORMS Annual Meeting, Virtual, 2020 Invited Research Seminar, UESTC, Chengdu, China, 2020 Rutgers-NJIT Business School Joint Ph.D. Seminar, Newark, NJ, 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 2019