Guang Li

Articles

1. “Designing Shipping Policies with Top-up Options to Qualify for Free Delivery” (with Lifei Sheng
and Dongyuan Zhan), Production and Operations Management, Vol. 32, No. 9, 2704-2722, 2023. [Link]

2. “Optimal Pricing and Inventory Planning with Charitable Donations” (with Leon Yang Chu and Paat
Rusmevichientong), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 20, No. 4, 687-703, 2018.
[Link]

3. “The d-Level Nested Logit Model: Assortment and Price Optimization Problems” (with Paat
Rusmevichien- tong and Huseyin Topaloglu), Operations Research, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 325-342, 2015.
[Link]

4. “A Greedy Algorithm for the Two-Level Nested Logit Model” (with Paat Rusmevichientong),
Operations
Research Letters, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 319-324, 2014. [Link]

Work In Progress

“Bankruptcy Prediction with Machine Learning Methods: Investigation of Model Interpretability” (with
Xingwei Yang*, Matthew Thompson, and Aniruddha Dutta), Target journal: INFORMS Journal on Applied
Analytics.

2. “Psychology and Content Analysis of Users with the Signs of Depression” (with Xingwei Yang*), Target
journal: Journal of Business Research.

3. “Discover Depression Support in Social Network” (with Xingwei Yang*), Target journal: Journal of Business Research.

4. “Selling and Renting Mechatronics” (with Xianfeng Meng* and Anton Ovchinnikov), manuscript in
preparation. Target journal: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

5. “Operations Management Under Choice Overloading” (with Milad Mirzaee* and Elaheh Fata), manuscript
in preparation. Target journal: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

6. “Operations Management Under a Multi-Item Purchase Choice Model” (with Milad Mirzaee* and Elaheh
Fata), manuscript in preparation. Target journal: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

7. “Stochastic Dynamic Resource Allocation for Hotel Revenue Management with Auxiliary Revenues”
(with Aliaksandr Nekrashevich*, Yuri Levin, and Mikhail Nediak), manuscript in preparation. Target
journal: Production and Operations Management.

8. “Scalable Stochastic Sea Cargo with Empty Container Management” (with Aliaksandr Nekrashevich**,
Yuri Levin, and Mikhail Nediak), manuscript in preparation. Target journal: Operations Research.

9. “Sensitivity to Delays and Pricing Behavior of Individual Sellers in Online Platforms” (with Mikhail Nediak,
Lifei Sheng, and Shweta Singh), manuscript in preparation. Target journal: Management Science.

10. “Joint Assortment and Price Optimizations under an N-Pack Purchase Model” (with Ying Cao), manuscript in preparation. Target journal: Operations Research Letters.

Working Papers

"Disruptive Timing” (with Leon Chu, Brian Wu, and Andy Wu), Management Science, major revision.

“To Hinder or to Facilitate: Retailers’ Strategy of Consumer Information Sharing and Target Segment”
(with Buqing Ma and Guangwen Kong), Production and Operations Management, major revision. [Link]

“How Resilient are Warehouse Clubs in the Face of Digital Competition? Unraveling the Role of Retail
Agglomeration” (with Martin Dresner, Benny Mantin, and Xiaodan Pan), International Journal of Physical
Distribution & Logistics Management, under second-round revision.

“Stocking Upon Hand Sanitizer: Pandemic Lessons for Retailers and Consumers” (with Xiaodan Pan,
Tina Dacin, Martin Dresner, and Benny Mantin), International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics
Management, to be resubmitted.

“Remanufacturing Technology Portfolio Decision under a Discrete Choice Model” (with Ying Cao, Xianghui
Peng, and Kai Meng), Production and Operations Management, under review. [Link]

 

Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business, Queen’s University

Analytical Decision Making (core course in MMA, Blended MMA) 2019-Present Analytical

Decision Making (core course in MMAI, residential sessions) 2021-Present

Revenue Management in Operations Research (reading course in Ph.D.) 2022

Advanced Topics in Operations Research (core course in Ph.D. ) 2019,2021

Deterministic Operations Research Models (core course in Ph.D. & M.Sc.) 2020-2021

Operation Management (third year core course in commerce) 2017-2018

Marshall School of Business , University of Southern California

Operation Management (third year core course in commerce) 2014

Interests

Choice modeling, revenue management, assortment planning, retail operations, supply chain management, interfaces between operations management and marketing and strategy.

Conference Presentations

“Is Warehouse Club Business Model Resilient to Digital Competition? The Role of Retail Agglomeration”

INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference, June 2023

“Operations Management Under a Multi-Item Purchase Choice Model”

INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2023 (scheduled)
INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2022
Productions & Operations Management Society Annual Conference, April 2022

Sensitivity to Delays and Pricing Behavior of Individual Sellers in Online Platforms

CORS Annual Meeting, June 2021 (Invited)
POMS Annual Meeting, May 2021 (Invited)
INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2020 (Invited)

Designing Shipping Policies for Online Retailers  

POMS Annual Conference 2019, Washington, DC, USA, May 2019 (Invited)
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA, December 2018 (Invited)
CORS Annual Conference 2018, Halifax, NS, Canada, June 2018 (Invited)

Pricing under the N-Pack Purchasing Model

POMS Annual Conference 2019, Washington, DC, USA, May 2019 (Invited)
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA, December 2018 (Invited)
POMS Annual Conference 2018, Houston, TX, USA, May 2018 (Invited)

Formulation, Motivation and Estimation for the d-Level Nested Logit Model

Cornell ORIE Young Researchers Workshop on Data-Driven Decision Making, Ithaca, NY, USA, November 2015 (Invited)
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 2015 (Invited)
INFORMS MSOM Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 2015 (Refereed)
Southern California OR/OM Day, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 2015 

A Greedy Algorithms for the Two-Level Nested Logit Model

INFORMS MSOM Conference, Seattle, WA, USA, June 2014 (Refereed)
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minnesota, MN, USA, October 2013 (Invited)

Invited Talks

Nanjing University and Southeast University (joint virtual seminar), August 2021

Tsinghua University, November 2018

Wilfrid Laurier University, Lazaridis School of Business, February 2016

University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, January 2016

University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindai School of Management, January 2016

Queen’s University, Smith School of Business, January 2016

Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, School of International Business, December 2015

University of Science and Technology of China, School of Management, December 2015

Other Awards

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 2015

Singapore-MIT Alliance Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2008

• Full funding for a dual master’s degree from MIT and NUS

NatSteel Limited Gold Medal, Nanyang Technological University, 2007

• Best overall performance in the final year of undergraduate study

Dean’s List Commendation, Nanyang Technological University, 2004-2007

• Awarded to top 5% of the cohort

NTU President Research Scholarship, 2004-2007

• Awarded to students in Dean’s list to fund for undergraduate research 

Grants & Funding

D.I. McLeod Term Research Assistantship (Co-applied with Murray Lei), $7,483.30 (2023)

Loblaw Inc. Internal Research Grant (Co-PI with Murray Lei and Elaheh Fata), $20,000 (2022)

Discovery Grant (2020-2025)
NSERC | $142,500

General Research Grant (2019-2020)
Smith School of Business | $3,800

Session Co-chair, Revenue Management & Pricing Cluster, INFORMS Annual Conference (2023)
Session Co-chair, Emerging Topics in Operations Management, POMS Annual Conference (2023)
Session Co-Chair, Pricing and Revenue Management, CORS Annual Conference 2022
Track Co-Chair & Session Chair, Revenue Management & Pricing, POMS Annual Conference (2020-2021)
Session Chair, Pricing and Revenue Management, CORS Annual Conference 2021
Session Chair, Revenue Management & Pricing, POMS Annual Conference (2019)
Session Chair, Retail Operations, POMS Annual Conference (2019)
Session Co-Chair, Revenue Management, CORS Annual Conference 2018
Ad-hoc Reviewer for Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management,
Production and Operations Management, Operations Research Letters, INFORMS Journal on Computing,
Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, Omega
Ad-hoc conference reviewer, 19th ACM Economics and Computation Conference (2018)
Ad-hoc grant reviewer, NSERC Discovery Grant (2022)
Ad-hoc referee, Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award, DSI Annual Meeting (2019)

Service At Queen's University

Curriculum review committee, Smith’s Analytics Suite 2023
Curriculum review committee, Masters in International Business 2023
Ph.D. comprehensive exam committee, Management Analytics 2020-Present
Research Committee, Smith School of Business 2022-Present
Renewal, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Smith School of Business 2020-2022
Faculty Development Fund Committee, Smith School of Business 2018-2019
Judge, Queen’s International Innovation Challenge 2018