Yuan Qu

I am a Ph.D. candidate with the concentration on Operations Research, under the supervision of Prof. Jian Yang, in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at Rutgers University. Before that I received my M.Sc. degree from Rutgers University, and my B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and B.A. degree in Business Administration from University of Electronics Science and Technology of China (UESTC).

Research Interests:

• Revenue Management; Reinforcement Learning; Business Intelligence; Combinatorial Optimization; Game-theoretic Applications; Transportation Engineering.

PUBLICATIONS

UNDER REVIEW

• Yuan Qu, Jian Yang, Understanding Opaque Selling from an Inventory-control Perspective. Under Review, Management Science (UTD24, FT50, 5-year impact factor 6.62).
• Jingjing Li, Yuan Qu, Jingyuan Yang (author names in alphabetical order), Building Resilience During Crises: A Big Data Empowered Reinforcement Learning Approach for Airline Insurance. Under Review, Information Systems Research (UTD24, FT50, 5-year impact factor 6.89).
• Hongyu Zheng, Kenan Zhang, Macro Nie, Pengyu Yan, Yuan Qu, How Many Are Too Many? Analyzing Dockless Bikesharing Systems with a Parsimonious Model. Under Review, Transportation Science (5-year impact factor 4.25).

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

• Yuan Qu, Jian Yang, Inventory Control involving Opaque Selling.
• Yuan Qu, Jingyuan Yang, Wei Zeng, One Size Does Not Fit All: Personal Match and Marketing Message Effectiveness on Social Networks.
• Yuan Qu,Chaitanya Kaligotla, Sarah Wittman, Jingyuan Yang, Wei Zeng. Diminishing Returns to Social Capitalist Firms and Their Employee Advocates: Evidence from WeChat.
• Jingyuan Yang, Yuan Qu, Shun Ye, Dynamic Recommender systems for Crowd Sourcing Platform.

AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS

• Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers Graduate School-Newark, 2022
• Dean’s Competition for Summer Ph.D. Research Assistants, Rutgers Business School, 2022
• Dean’s Competition for Summer Ph.D. Research Assistants, Rutgers Business School, 2021
• Dean's Office Summer Scholarships, Rutgers Business School, 2020
• Graduate School-Newark Scholarship, Rutgers University, 2020
• University Merit Graduate Scholars Award, Rutgers University, 2019
• The Sceond Prize People's Scholarship, UESTC, 2016
• China National College Student Information Security Contest, Bronze Award, 2016
• China National College Student Entrepreneurship Contest, Bronze Award, 2016
• China National College Student Information Security Contest, Bronze Award, 2015
• The Western Star of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 4th Place - Bronze Award, 2015
• The Second Level Athletic in China, Weiqi (Go), 2012
• Weiqi (Go) Amateur 5 dan, 2012