Pengyu Qian

Pengyu Qian

Assistant Professor

Boston University

I am a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Operations & Technology Management department at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. Before joining BU, I was an Assistant Professor at the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, Purdue University. My CV can be found here.

My research studies the design and analysis of marketplaces in dynamic settings, using tools from probability, optimization and game theory. I am interested in foundational models driven by challenges in sharing economy and the allocation of public resources. My research emphasizes algorithms/mechanisms that not only have good theoretical guarantees, but also are simple, robust, and hence practical for real-world systems.

You can reach me at pqian20 at gmail dot com.

Interests
  • Market Design
  • Platform
  • Stochastic Systems
  • Online Algorithms
Education
  • PhD in Decision, Risk, and Operations, 2021

    Columbia Businss School

  • BS in Mathematics, 2015

    Peking University

What’s New

Oct 2024

Our paper "Incentivizing Resource Pooling" won First Place in 2024 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition!

Jul 2024

Our paper "Incentivizing Resource Pooling" won First Place in 2024 Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE) Paper Competition!

June 2024

Our Paper "Incentivizing Resource Pooling" was accepted for presentation at MSOM 2024 SIG!

June 2024

I have moved to the Questrom School of Business, Boston University!

May 2024

Our paper "Incentivizing Resource Pooling" was accepted to EC'24.

Mar 2024

Our paper "The Competition for Partners in Matching Markets" was accepted to Management Science.

Jan 2024

Excited to serve as a co-chair of the Auctions and Market Design (AMD) cluster at INFORMS 2024.

Working Papers

8. Incentivizing Participation in Decentralized Dynamic Matching Markets

with Chen Chen, and Jingwei Zhang

work in progress

7. Fair Real-Time Matching

work in progress

6. Congested Waiting Lists and Organ Allocation

with Itai Ashlagi, and Ravi Jagadeesan

work in progress

5. Incentivizing Resource Pooling

with Chen Chen, and Yilun Chen, major revision, Management Science

[ SSRN ]

  • Preliminary version: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC`24)

  • Presentation at MSOM Service Management SIG Meeting 2024

  • First Place, 2024 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition

  • First Place, 2024 Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE) Paper Competition

4. Price Discovery in Waiting Lists

with Itai Ashlagi, Jacob Leshno, and Amin Saberi, submitted

[ SSRN | EC Version | Al Roth's blog post ]

  • Preliminary version: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC`20)

3. Large Deviations Optimal Scheduling of Closed Queueing Networks

with Siddhartha Banerjee, and Yash Kanoria, major revision, Math of OR

[ arXiv | SIGMETRICS Version ]

  • Preliminary version: SIGMETRICS`18

Publications

2. The Competition for Partners in Matching Markets

with Yash Kanoria, and Seungki Min, forthcoming, Management Science

[ arXiv | SODA Version | MS Version | Al Roth's blog post ]

  • Preliminary version: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA`21)

1. Blind Dynamic Resource Allocation in Closed Networks via Mirror Backpressure

with Yash Kanoria (2024), Management Science 70(8):5445-5462

[ arXiv | EC Version | MS Version ]

  • Preliminary version: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC`20)

  • Honorable Mention, 2021 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Student Paper Competition