Associate Professor
Department of Management, University of Toronto Mississauga
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Phone: +1-905-828-5218
Office: KN 205 (UTM) and 413 (Rotman)
Email: <ningyuan.chen”at”utoronto.ca>
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Dr. Ningyuan Chen is currently an associate professor at the Department of Management at the University of Toronto, Mississauga and at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Before joining the University of Toronto, he was an assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) department at Columbia University in 2015. His research is focused on machine learning and data-driven decision-making in business applications such as dynamic pricing, revenue management, online retailing and experimental design. His studies have been published in Management Science, Operations Research, Annals of Statistics, NeurIPS and other journals and proceedings. His research is supported by the UGC of Hong Kong and the Discovery Grants Program of Canada. He is the recipient of the Roger Martin Award for Excellence in Research and the IMI Research Award. He has been working on projects with BAM, Polymatiks, and Alibaba.

Education

Ph.D. in Operations Research, Columbia University, 2015
M.S. in Operations Research, Columbia University, 2012
B.S. in Mathematics, Peking University, 2010

Teaching

MGT201: Coding for Business
MGT270: Data Analytics for Management
RSM3049: Online Learning and Multi-armed Bandit
BTC2020: Decision Analytics in Business, Healthcare and Management
MGM301: Analysis for Decision and Control
IEDA 2540: Statistics for Engineers
IEDA 5270: Engineering Statistics
IEDA 4331: Quantitative Methods in Financial Engineering
IEDA 6100F: Dynamic Programming under Uncertainty

Grants and Awards

IMI Research Grant, 2024
Roger Martin Award for Excellence in Research, 2022
IMI Research Award, 2022
Management Science Distinguished Service Award, 2020, 2021
NSERC Discovery Grant, Canada, 2020
RGC General Research Fund, Hong Kong, 2019
RGC Early Career Scheme, Hong Kong, 2017
INFORMS Financial Services Section Best Student Paper Competition, finalist, 2015

Students I have supervised or worked with

Pin Gao, Assistant Professor at CUHK Shenzhen
Xiao Lei, Assistant Professor at HKU Business School
Zhuodong Tang, postdoctoral fellow at Ross School of Business
Saman Lagzi, Assistant Professor at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Assistant Professor at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Wenhao Li, Assistant Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Jialin Li, postdoctoral fellow at Rotman
Craig Fernandes, Ph.D. candidate at MIE, University of Toronto
Chenhao Wang, Ph.D. candidate at CUHK Shenzhen
Yi Xiong Assistant Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Zechao Li Ph.D. candidate at SEM, Tsinghua University