Research Interest

Platform Operations Management

Education

• Ph.D., IEDA, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2017-2021

• Visiting Student, International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, 2015-2015

• M.Phil., Theoretical Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2013-2015

• B.Sc., Physics Elite Class, Wuhan University, 2009-2013

Projects

• 主持，青年科学基金项目（C 类），国家自然科学基金委；

• 主持，创新研究基金项目，深圳市大数据研究院；

• 主持，企业项目，美团；

• 主持，企业项目，滴滴；

• 参与，重大项目，国家自然科学基金委；

Journal Publications (student coauthor)

• Fu, X., et al. (2025), “Privacy-Preserving Personalized Recommender Systems”, conditionally accepted at MSOM. 

• Chen, Y.-J., et al. (2025), "Position Auctions with Endogenous Product Information: Why Live-Streaming Advertising is Thriving", MS.

• Chen, Z. X. Fu, et al. (2025), "When to Conceal Attribute Information? The Roles of Consumer Search, Inventory, and Selling Mechanisms", accepted at MSOM. 

• Fu, X., et al. (2025), “Designing Emission Permits Regulation for Multiple Compliance Periods”, accepted at MSOM. 

• 第二名，最佳论文，2022年POMS-China年会 

• Yang, Z., X. Fu, et al. (2024), “Fairness Regulation of Prices in Competitive Markets”, MSOM 26(5), 1897-1917. 

• 《Insurance Business Australia》，2024/09/12.

• Li, G.,  et al. (2024), “Dealership or Marketplace with Fulfillment Services: A Dynamic Comparison”, MSOM 26(5), 1860-1877. 

• Li, G., et al. (2024), “Optimal Emission Regulation under Market Uncertainty”, NRL 71(8), 1092-1112.

• Chen, N., et al. (2023), “Does the Prohibition of Trade-Through Hurt Liquidity Demanders”, OR 71(5), 1458-1471.

• Gao, P., X. Fu, et al. (2022), “Free Add-Ons in Services”, Service Science 14(4), 292-306.

• Gao, P., et al. (2021), “Resource Allocation Among Competing Innovators”, MS 68(8), 6059-6074.

• 《香港经济日报》，2022/09/01.

• Gao, P., et al. (2021),  “Assortment Optimization and Pricing Under the Multinomial Logit Model with Impatient Customers: Sequential Recommendation and Selection”, OR 69(5), 1509-1532.

• Gao, P., et al.et (2016), “Symmetry-Protected Non-Abelian Braiding of Majorana Kramers’ Pairs”, Phys. Rev. B 94(22), 224509. 

Conference Proceedings

• Yang, Z., et al., "Regulating Discriminatory Pricing in the Presence of Tacit Collusion", Wine 2024. 

• 《FT中文网》，2024/09/05.

• 提名，Service Science 最佳学生论文，2024 年INFORMS年会

• Gao, P., Y. Liu, et al., “Robust Optimal Selling Mechanism under Non-linear Utility”, Wine 2024.

• Li, G., et al., “When to Push Ads: Optimal Mobile Ad Campaign Strategy under Markov Customer Dynamics”, Wine 2024. 

• 提名，最佳学生论文，2024年POMS-HK年会

• Gao, P., Y. Liu, C. Wang,  and Z. Wang, “Sequential Assortment Recommendation under the Impatient Mixed Cascade Model”, Wine 2023.

Working Papers 

• Gallego, G., P. Gao, S. Wang, and G. Berbeglia, “Assortment Optimization with Downward Feasibility: Efficient Heuristics Based on Independent Demands”.

• 主题报告，2024年服务系统与服务管理会议; 2024年管理科学青年学者研讨会

• Gao, P., Y. Liu, C. Wang, and Z. Wang, “Simple is Enough: A Cascade Approximation for Attention-Based Satisficing Choice Models”.

  • 第一名，最佳论文，2023年全国供应链与运营管理学术年会

• Chen, N., P. Gao, C. Wang, and Y. Wang, “Assortment Optimization for the Multinomial Logit Model with Repeated Customer Interactions”.