About
Education
- MS, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005, 2009
- BE, ME, Tsinghua University, 2000, 2003
Employment
- Tom E. Nelson Jr. Regents Professor in Business (2021–)
- Professor (2020–)
- Associate Professor (2015–2020)
- Assistant Professor (2009–2015)
Selected Awards & Honors
- Finalist, MSOM/iFORM Best Paper Award 2019
- CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Associate Professors, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin 2018
- Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award, POMS 2015
- CBA Foundation Fellowship, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin 2015–
- CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin 2014
- Distinguished Service Award, Management Science 2014
- INFORMS ENRE Section Best Publication Award 2012
- William Cooper Dissertation Award, Carnegie Mellon University 2009
Show full list of awards and honors
- Third Prize, CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2019
- Honorable Mention, CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2016
- Supply Chain Department Outstanding Senior Editor, POM, 2016
- Department Nominee for Research Excellence Award, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin, 2016, 2019
- Department Nominee for Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin, 2014, 2015
- Meritorious Service Award, MSOM, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Meritorious Service Award, Management Science, 2013
- Finalist, INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition, 2011
- Honorable Mention, CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2011
- First Prize, CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2009
- Second Prize, MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2008
- Best Theoretical/Empirical Research Paper Award, DSI, 2008
- Supply Chain Track Best Paper Award, DSI, 2008
- William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003–2009
- First Place, University Entrance Examination, Zhejiang Province, China, 1996
Research Interests
Supply Chain Management
Business Analytics
OM–Finance / OM–Marketing Interfaces
Platform Economics
Healthcare
Energy & Sustainable Operations
Working Papers
- 2026. Pricing Strategies for Incentivizing Influencer Information Sharing with Product Returns
- 2026. Selling Fast, Returning More? Scarcity Strategies and Transaction Stability in Livestream E-Commerce
- 2025. Store Brand and the Information Edge: Reshaping Supply Chain Dynamics
- 2025. Costless Multi-Party Signaling with Buyback Contracts in Supply Chain Finance
- 2025. Strategic Financing and Information Revelation amid Market Competition
- 2025. Analysis of Optimal Inventory Management for Dual Blood Products with Dual Sources
- 2025. How Sustainable are Sustainability-Linked Loans?
Publications
- 2025. On-Demand Healthcare Platforms: Impact of Subsidized Q&A Service on Demand for Online Consultation and Offline Appointment. Information Systems Research.
- 2025. Impacts of Strategic Consumers and Direct Channel on Supply Chain Contracting. Production and Operations Management.
- 2024. Optimal Salesforce Compensation with General Demand and Operational Considerations. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
- 2024. Group Buying between Competitors: The Determinant of Power Structure. Production and Operations Management.
- 2024. Platform Financing versus Trade Credit for Lending to Third-Party Sellers. Management Science.
- 2023. On the Interplay of Production Flexibility and Financing Strategy. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
- 2023. Financing a Sustainable Supply Chain. Production and Operations Management.
- 2022. On the Participation, Competition and Welfare at Customer-Intensive Discretionary Service Platforms. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
- 2022. The Implications of Strategic Inventory for Short-term vs. Long-Term Supply Contracts in Non-Exclusive Reselling Environments. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
- 2021. “Fulfilled by Amazon”: A Strategic Perspective of Competition at the E-commerce Platform. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
- 2021. The Effects of Stock-based Incentives on Inventory Management. Management Science.
- 2021. International Taxation and Production Outsourcing. Production and Operations Management 30(2) 402–418.
- 2019. Offering Discretionary Healthcare Services with Medical Consumption. Production and Operations Management 28(9) 2291–2304.
- 2019. Agricultural Partnership for Dairy Farming. Production and Operations Management 28(12) 3042–3059.
- 2019. The Implications of Visibility on the Use of Strategic Inventory in a Supply Chain. Management Science 65(4) 1752–1767.
- 2018. Inventory Decisions and Signals of Demand Uncertainty to Investors. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 20(1) 113–129.
- 2017. Selling to Customers with Both Veblen and Network Effects. Operations Research Letters 45(1) 25–29.
- 2017. Trade Credit in Competition: A Horizontal Benefit. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 19(2) 263–289.
- 2017. Leader-based Joint Procurement: Cooperation Mechanism and Incentive Analysis. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 19(1) 72–83.
- 2016. Inventory Sharing in the Presence of Commodity Markets. Production and Operations Management 25(7) 1245–1260.
- 2016. Provision of Incentives for Information Acquisition: Forecast-based Contracts versus Menus of Linear Contracts. Management Science 62(7) 1899–1914.
- 2015. Merchant Commodity Storage and Term Structure Model Error. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 17(3) 302–320.
- 2015. Sourcing with Deferred Payment and Inspection under Supplier Product Adulteration Risk. Production and Operations Management 24(6) 934–946.
- 2015. Supply Chain Design and Carbon Penalty: Monopoly vs. Monopolistic Competition. Production and Operations Management 24(9) 1494–1508.
- 2015. Dynamic Bargaining in a Supply Chain with Asymmetric Demand Information. Management Science 61(2) 301–315.
- 2015. Supplier Encroachment as an Enhancement or a Hindrance to Nonlinear Pricing. Production and Operations Management 24(1) 89–109.
- 2014. Supplier Encroachment under Asymmetric Information. Management Science 60(2) 449–462.
- 2013. Salesforce Contracting under Demand Censorship. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 15(2) 320–334.
- 2012. Supply Chain Performance under Market Valuation: An Operational Approach to Restore Efficiency. Management Science 58(10) 1933–1951.
- 2011. Channel Stuffing with Short-term Interest in Market Value. Management Science 57(2) 332–346.
- 2011. Valuation of Storage at a Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal. Operations Research 59(3) 602–616.
- 2010. An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Benchmark Practice-based Heuristics for Natural Gas Storage Valuation. Operations Research 58(3) 564–582.
- 2010. Buy Now and Match Later: The Impact of Posterior Price Matching on Profit with Strategic Consumers. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 12(1) 33–55.
- 2009. Sharing Inventory Risk in Supply Chain: The Implication of Financial Constraint. Omega—The International Journal of Management Science 47(4) 811–825.
- 2009. A Generic Framework for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiations. Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation 18(2) 169–187.
- 2008. A Decentralized Model for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiations with Incomplete Information and General Utility Functions. Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems 4(1) 45–65.
- 2006. Efficient Multi-Attribute Negotiation with Incomplete Information. Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation 15(5) 511–528.
Book Chapters
- Contracting for Information Acquisition. In Handbook of Information Exchange in Supply Chain Management, Springer Publishing, 2016.
- Supply Chain Information Signaling and Capital Market. In Handbook of Information Exchange in Supply Chain Management, Springer Publishing, 2016.
- Supplier Encroachment with Asymmetric Information. In Handbook of Research on Distribution Channels, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
- A General Model for Pareto Optimal Multi-Attribute Negotiations. In Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2008.
- A Decentralized Model for Multi-Attribute Negotiations with Incomplete Information and General Utility Functions. In Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2008.
- Coordinating Very Large Groups of Wide Area Search Munitions. In Theory and Algorithms for Cooperative Systems, World Scientific Publishing, 2005.
Show invited talks & conference presentations
- Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 2022
- School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, 2021
- School of Business, University of California, Riverside, 2020
- McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, 2020
- Questrom School of Business, Boston University, 2018
- Carroll School of Management, Boston College, 2018
- Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018
- David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2018
- School of Business, Hong Kong University, 2017
- School of Business, City University of Hong Kong, 2017
- School of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2017
- School of Management, Zhejiang University, 2017
- School of Management, East China University of Science and Technology, 2017
- School of Business, Renmin University of China, 2016
- School of Business, Sichuan University, 2016
- School of Business, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 2016
- Foster School of Business, University of Washington, 2016
- School of Business, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014
- Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, 2014
- Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 2014
- Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, 2013
- School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2013
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, 2013
- Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC Chapel Hill, Junior Faculty Research Workshop, 2013
- Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, 2011
- School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, 2011
- School of Business, National University of Singapore, 2011
- INSEAD, 2011
- Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 2009
- McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
- Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2009
- Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2009
- Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, 2009
- School of Business & Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
- INFORMS Annual Conference, 2009–2015
- M&SOM Annual Conference, 2009, 2011
- CSAMSE Annual Conference, 2009–2015
- POMS Annual Conference, 2009–2015
Teaching
- Strategic Supply Chain Management (4.8, 4.75, 4.5/5.0, etc.)
- Logistics and Inventory Management (4.91, 4.85, 4.6/5.0, etc.)
- Pricing and Revenue Management (5.0, 4.58, 4.4/5.0)
- Operations Management (4.8, 4.7, 4.4/5.0, etc.)
- Modeling and Optimization in Finance (4.83, 4.6, 4.2/5.0)
- Topics in Operations/Finance Interface (4.7/5.0)
Professional Service
- Senior editor, Production and Operations Management
- Associate editor, Management Science
- Associate editor, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
- Associate editor, Operations Research Letters
- Associate editor, The International Journal of Management Science
- Associate editor, The Journal of Management Science and Engineering
- Track chair for POMS 2015, POMS 2019, DSI 2016, INFORMS International 2016, INFORMS 2018
- Judge, MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2010–2020
- Judge, CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2012–2018
- Judge, POMS Student Paper Competition, 2014–2017
- Invited session chair, INFORMS 2010–2017, POMS 2012–2015, CSAMSE 2009–2015
- Program chair, International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations, 2008–2010
- Referee for Management Science, MSOM, POMS, ORL, EJOR, Decision Analysis, Decision Sciences, and others
School Service
- IROM Department Executive Committee member (2012–2015, 2017–2019, 2020–2022, 2023–2024)
- IROM Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee member (2014–2015)
- IROM Faculty Sixth-Year Review Committee member (2011, 2014, 2017)
- IROM OM PhD Coordinator (2015–2018)
- IROM Supply Chain Management Center Academic Advisory Board (2016–2017)
- Dissertation co-chair/committee member: Seung-Jae Park (Yonsei University), Qi Wu (Case Western Reserve University), Zhuoxin Li (Boston College), Abhishek Roy (Temple University), Vishwakant Malladi (Indian School of Business), Yixuan Liu (Purdue University), Chinmoy Mohapatra (BNSF), Sebastian Souyris (RSG Media), Vivek Vasudeva (Turner Broadcasting), Hee Sung Jang