Research

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

Some specific interests

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

Papers

• Optimal Compensation under Inventory Delegation and Supply/Demand Mismatch. With Wenqiang Xiao.
• Price Discrimination and Inventory Allocation in Bertrand Competition. With Maxime Cohen and Alexandre Jacquillat. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25(1):148-167, 2023.
• Coopetition in Platform-Based Retailing: On the Platform Entry. With Lian Qi and Wenqiang Xiao.
• Employees, Contractors, or Hybrid: An Operational Perspective. With Ilan Lobel and Sébastien Martin.
• Supplier’s Credit Guarantee Choice in Financing a Downstream Buyer With Bankruptcy Risk. With Huihui Liu and Wenqiang Xiao.
• On the Cardinality of Positively Linearly Independent Sets. With Warren Hare. Optimization Letters 10(4): 649-654, 2016.
• Optimal Transmission Network Topology for Resilient Power Supply. With Yuriy Zinchenko and William Rosehart. ILS 2016.

Collaborators

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