Ruihao Zhu

Biography

Ruihao Zhu is an assistant professor of operations, technology, and information management at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research develops novel reinforcement learning algorithms to inform decision-making in digital economy, pricing, and supply chain & logistics. He also enjoys tackling practically relevant problems and has been working closely with different companies to test and implement his methods.

Selected Publications

• Simchi-Levi, David; Sun, Rui; Wu, Michelle; Zhu, Ruihao. "Calibrating Sales Forecast in a Pandemic Using Competitive Online Non-Parametric Regression"Management Science. 70.10 (2024): 6483-7343
• Cheung, Wang Chi; Simchi-Levi, David; Zhu, Ruihao. "Hedging the Drift: Learning to Optimize under Non-Stationarity"Management Science. 68.3 (2022): 1696-1713
• Bastani, Hamsa; Simchi-Levi, David; Zhu, Ruihao. "Meta-Dynamic Pricing: Transfer Learning Across Experiments"Management Science. 68.3 (2022): 1865-1881

Awards and Honors

• Second Place (2022) INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award
• Finalist (2021) INFORMS Service Science Section 2021 Best Cluster Paper Award
• Finalist (2019) POMS-JD.com 2019 Best Data-Driven Research Paper Competition
• Honorable Mention (2019) INFORMS George E. Nicholson 2019 Student Paper Competition

Recent Courses

• HADM 2021/HADM 3010 - Critical Thinking and Mathematical Modeling in Operations
• HADM 7030 - Operations Management

Academic Degrees

• PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021
• BEng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2015
• BEng University of Michigan, 2015