Ruihao Zhu

Biography

Ruihao Zhu is an Assistant Professor at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He designs AI and data science methods for the digital economy, revenue management, and supply chain.

Education

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

Research

• Ji, Jingwei; Xu, Renyuan; Zhu, Ruihao. "Risk-Aware Linear Bandits: Theory and Applications in Smart Order Routing"Operations Research. (forthcoming).
• Zhao, Xuejun; Zhu, Ruihao; Haskell, William. "Learning to Price Supply Chain Contracts against a Learning Retailer"Management Science. 72.3 (2026): 2168-2187
• Feng, Qing; Zhu, Ruihao; Jasin, Stefanus. "Temporal Fairness in Learning and Earning: Price Protection Guarantee and Phase Transitions"Operations Research. 73.2 (2025): 775-797
• 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

• Finalist, Google DeepMind AI for Organizations Grand Challenge, 2025 (2025) Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and Google
• 2nd Place, POMS Chelliah Sriskandarajah Early Career Research Accomplishments Award (2025) Production and Operations Management Society
• Second Place (2022) INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award
• Finalist (2019) POMS-JD.com 2019 Best Data-Driven Research Paper Competition
• Honorable Mention (2019) INFORMS George E. Nicholson 2019 Student Paper Competition