Research

I do incentive analysis and design incentive schemes to align interests and coordinate systems. I like parsimonious models.

Some specific interests

• Platform Operations and Marketplace Analytics
• Supply Chain Management and Finance Interface
• Contract Theory and Optimization in Economics

Papers

Journal

• Jinxin Yang, Haotian Song, Weihua Zhou (2025) Cultivating Quality: The Impact of Technology Provision on Agricultural Supply Chains.
• Huihui Liu, Haotian Song, Wenqiang Xiao (2025) Multi-Dimensional Signaling with Supplier Credit Guarantee. Major somewhere.
• Lian Qi, Haotian Song, Wenqiang Xiao (2025) Coopetition in Platform-Based Retailing: On the Platform’s Entry. Management Science.
• Haotian Song, Guoming Lai, Wenqiang Xiao (2024) Optimal Salesforce Compensation with General Demand and Operational Considerations. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26(6):2274–2283.
• Ilan Lobel, Sébastien Martin, Haotian Song (2024) Frontiers in Operations: Employees vs. Contractors: An Operational Perspective. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26(4):1306-1322. Complete Appendix
• Maxime C. Cohen, Alexandre Jacquillat, Haotian Song (2023) Price Discrimination and Inventory Allocation in Bertrand Competition. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25(1):148-167. Complete Appendix
• Warren Hare, Haotian Song (2016) On the Cardinality of Positively Linearly Independent Sets. Optimization Letters 10(4):649-654.
• Amit Jha, Haotian Song, Yuriy Zinchenko (2024) Resilient Network Design: Disjoint Shortest Path Problem for Power Transmission Application. Systems 12(4):117.

Conference

• Peng Zhang, Yuan Li, Haotian Song, Yankai Jiang, Yubo Tao, Hai Lin, Hongguang Cui (2025) SIGraph: Saliency Image-Graph Network for Retinal Disease Classiffcation in Fundus Image. AAAI.
• Yuriy Zinchenko, Haotian Song, William Rosehart (2016) Optimal Transmission Network Topology for Resilient Power Supply. Information Systems, Logistics, and Supply Chain. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 262:138-150.

Thesis & Dissertation

• Game-Theoretical Modelling in Operations Management. Doctoral Dissertation.
• On a 2-Path Problem. Master’s Thesis.

Collaborators

I have the privilege of working with and learning from my advisors and coauthors (listed alphabetically): Maxime Cohen, Warren Hare, Alex Jacquillat, Guoming Lai, Huihui Liu, Ilan Lobel, Sébastien Martin, Lian Qi, Bill Rosehart, Wenqiang Xiao, Yuriy Zinchenko.

My Erdős number is 4: Paul Erdős → David Michael Avis → Antoine Deza → Yuriy Zinchenko → Haotian Song