HKU Summer Workshop on Operations Management

(June 2)

About

Date: June 2, 2023 (Friday)

Venue: HKU@iCube, Rm 4005-07, 40/F, Two Exchange Square, 8 Connaught Place, Central

Participation: by invitation ONLY

Programme Rundown

8:30-9:00am Registration

Jack JIANG (HKU)

09:00 – 09:10 Opening Remarks

Peng SUN (Duke University)

09:10 – 10:00 Keynote:

“Wait-time based queuing control: pricing and strategic delay”
Joint with Chen-An LIN (Duke) and Kevin SHANG (Duke)

10:00 – 10:05 Short Break

Xing HU (HKU)

10:05 – 10: 45 Research Presentation:

“Analyzing Trading Favors”
Partly joint with Rene Caldentey (Chicago Booth)

10:45 – 11:05 Coffee Break

Xiao LEI (HKU)

11:05 – 11:45 Research Presentation:

“Fairness Regulation and Market Collusion”
Joint with Zongsen YANG (CUHK-Shenzhen), Pin GAO (CUHK-Shenzhen)

11:45 – 11:50 Short Break

Weiming ZHU (HKU)

11:50 – 12:30 Research Presentation:

“Mitigating Negative Externalities in Urban Services: Evidence from the Bike-sharing Industry”
Joint with: Víctor Martínez de Albéniz (IESE Business School), Qihang YANG, Jinglong DAI, Jianfeng LIN and Zhaochen DONG (Meituan)

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch

Ming HU (Toronto)

14:30 – 15:20 Keynote:

“The Whiplash Effect: Congestion Dissipation and Mitigation in a Circulatory Transportation System”
Joint with: Chaoyu ZHANG (Toronto)

15:20 – 15:40 Coffee Break

Huiyin OUYANG (HKU)

15:40 – 16:20 Research Presentation:

“Resource Allocation in Urban Search and Rescue Operations During a Flooding Emergency”
Joint with Zheqi Zhang(Walmart Global Tech), Nilay Tanɪk Argon (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Serhan Ziya(The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

16:20 – 16:25 Short Break

Wei ZHANG (HKU)

16:25 – 17:05 Research Presentation:

“Regulating Worker Workload on Food Delivery Platforms: Bounding vs. Scaling”
Joint with: Haobo YU (SAFE Investment Co. Ltd., Hong Kong)

17:05 – 17:10 Short Break

Liao WANG (HKU)

17:10 – 17:50 Research Presentation:

“Risk Hedging in Multilocation Newsvendor Systems”
Joint with: Yiwen SHEN (HKUST), Xiangyin CHEN (Cornell) , Jin YAO (HKU)

Zhixi WAN (HKU)

17:50 – 18:00 Closing Remarks