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 of Operations Management 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.
- Market Design
- Platform
- Stochastic Systems
- Online Algorithms
PhD in Decision, Risk, and Operations, 2021
Columbia Businss School
BS in Mathematics, 2015
Peking University
What’s New
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. |
Oct 2023 | Journal version of working paper "Incentivizing resource pooling" is out! |
Aug 2022 | Journal version of working paper "Price discovery in waiting lists" is out! |
Oct 2021 | My paper "Blind dynamic resource allocation in closed networks via mirror backpressure" won Honorable Mention in RMP Jeff McGill Student Paper Competition 2021! |
Working Papers
7. | Fair real-time scheduling 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 Preliminary version: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC`24) Presentation at MSOM Service Management SIG Meeting 2024 [SSRN] |
4. | Price discovery in waiting lists with Itai Ashlagi, Jacob Leshno, and Amin Saberi, submitted 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 Preliminary version: SIGMETRICS`18 |
Publications
2. | The competition for partners in matching markets with Yash Kanoria, and Seungki Min, accepted, Management Science Preliminary version: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA`21) |
1. | Blind dynamic resource allocation in closed networks via mirror backpressure with Yash Kanoria, forthcoming, Management Science Preliminary version: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC`20) [arXiv | EC Version] |