Research

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

Some specific interests

• Incentives in Operations: Platform Ecosystem, Supply Chain Finance, Agro-Industrial Supply Chains
• Optimization in Economics: Contract Theory, Mathematical Programming with Equilibrium Constraints

Journal papers

• Jinxin Yang†, Haotian Song, Weihua Zhou (2026) Contract Farming with Technology Provision: Quality, Profitability, and the Role of Government Subsidies. Submitted.
• Haotian Song, Nipun Thakurele†, Wenqiang Xiao (2026) Buy Box Allocation and Competitive Effects in Hybrid Marketplaces. Submitted.
• Huihui Liu, Ying-Ju Chen, Haotian Song (2026) To Learn the Upstream or Not: Supplier Emissions Signaling under Green Investors’ Valuation. Submitted.
• Huihui Liu, Haotian Song, Wenqiang Xiao (2026) Multidimensional Signaling with Supplier Credit Guarantees. Management Science.
• Lian Qi, Haotian Song, Wenqiang Xiao (2025) Coopetition in Platform-Based Retailing: On the Platform’s Entry. Management Science 71(5):4013-4027.
• 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.

(“†” indicates a student co-author)

Conference papers

• Peng Zhang, Zhenhao Peng, Yuan Li, Hanxiao Huang, Bin Zhang, Haotian Song, Meng Geng, Yubo Tao, Hai Lin (2025) Efficient ToothAR: Cascade Autoregressive Orthodontic Treatment Planning. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.
• Peng Zhang, Yuan Li, Haotian Song, Yankai Jiang, Yubo Tao, Hai Lin, Hongguang Cui (2025) SIGraph: Saliency Image-Graph Network for Retinal Disease Classification in Fundus Image. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 39(10):10049-10057.
• 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): Ying-Ju Chen, Maxime Cohen, Jiadong Gu, Warren Hare, Alex Jacquillat, Guoming Lai, Huihui Liu, Ilan Lobel, Sébastien Martin, Lian Qi, Bill Rosehart, Duo Shi, Qi Wu, Wenqiang Xiao, Yuriy Zinchenko.

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