Yiwei Chen

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Yiwei Chen

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Statistics, Operations, and Data Science

      • Associate Professor

Biography

Yiwei Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics, Operations, and Data Science, and the director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics program. He received his PhD from MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research interests include dynamic optimization and machine learning with applications in operations management.

Chen has published papers in top tier journals, such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, and Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.

Research Interests

  • Revenue management
  • Pricing
  • Dynamic optimization
  • Machine learning
  • Algorithmic mechanism design

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

STAT 2501

Quantitative Foundations for Data Science

Undergraduate

STAT 3508

Data Management, Missing Data, and Outlier Analysis

Undergraduate

BA 5685

Internship or Externship in Business

Graduate

MSOM 9106

Dynamic Programming: Theory and Its Applications

Graduate

STAT 5605

Decision Models: From Data to Decisions

Graduate

STAT 5606

Data: Care, Feeding, and Cleaning in Python

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Chen, Y. & Trichakis, N. (2021). Technical Note—On Revenue Management with Strategic Customers Choosing When and What to Buy. Operations Research, 69(1), 175-187. doi: 10.1287/opre.2020.2008.

  • Chen, Y. & Hu, M. (2020). Pricing and Matching with Forward-Looking Buyers and Sellers. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 22(4), 717-734. doi: 10.1287/msom.2018.0769.