Dr. YU Yimin 虞义敏博士 Department of Management Sciences
Associate Professor

Address
7-273, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong

Phone
+852 34424781

Fax
+852 34420189

Email
yiminyu@cityu.edu.hk

Personal Web
https://sites.google.com/site/yiminyu/
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Research Areas Inventory Models
Emerging Supply Chain Strategies
The Interface of Operations Management and Marketing
Behavior Models


Qualifications PhD - Industrial Engineering (University of Minnesota)
BS - Automatic Control (University of Science and Technology of China)


Biography Yimin Yu received his Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on supply chain management and service operations. This includes topics on optimal design of inventory-production systems, incentive issues in supply chains and pricing strategies. His research work has been published in leading business journals including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Marketing Science, Operations Research, andProduction and Operations Management. His papers can be downloaded from this page: https://sites.google.com/site/yiminyu/research His current research projects explore how incomplete information affects business strategies, including the robustness of microeconomic models in the presence of model uncertainty, and data driven decision-making.



Awards Award TitleInstitution
Finalist, INFORMS JFIG paper competition INFORMS
IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award IIE


Research Grants PI: "Robust Salesforce Compensation with Inventory Considerations
Safety, Reliability, and Disruption Management of High Speed Rail and Metro Systems
Managing Capacitated Multi-Echelon Supply Chains
Managing Perishable Food Processing Supply Chains", GRF - Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Amount: 378,789 HKD (2014-2016), Yimin Yu



Administrative Assignments PeriodNamePosition
3/2021 - Now Management Sciences PhD Programme Coordinator
9/2018 - 6/2020 MSc. in Operations and Supply Chain Management (MSc. OSCM) Program Leader


External Academic Activities PeriodOrganizerCountryRole
1/2019 - Now Service Science (INFORMS) United States of America Associate Editor


Publications Journal Publications and Reviews Liu, Hanlin; Yu, Yimin / Incentives for Shared Services: Multiserver Queueing Systems with Priorities. December 2021; In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Shen, Xiaobei; Yu, Yimin; Huh, Woonghee Tim / Technical Note—A Permutation-Dependent Separability Approach for Capacitated Two-Echelon Inventory Systems. November 2021; In: Operations Research.

Zhu, Han; Yu, Yimin; Ray, Saibal / Quality Disclosure Strategy under Customer Learning Opportunities. April 2021; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 1136-1153

Liu, Hanlin; Yu, Yimin; Benjaafar, Saif; Wang, Huihui / Price-Directed Cost Sharing and Demand Allocation among Service Providers with Multiple Demand Sources and Multiple Facilities. January 2021; In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Yu, Yimin; Kong, Xiangyin / Robust Contract Designs: Linear Contracts and Moral Hazard. September 2020; In: Operations Research. Vol. 68, No. 5, pp. 1457-1473

Shen, Xiaobei; Yu, Yimin / Capacity Allocation with Multiple Suppliers and Multiple Demand Classes. November 2019; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 28, No. 11, pp. 2792-2807

Shen, Xiaobei; Bao, Lina; Yu, Yimin; Hua, Zhongsheng / Managing Supply Chains with Expediting and Multiple Demand Classes. May 2019; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 1129–1148

Benjaafar, Saif; Chen, David; Yu, Yimin / Optimal policies for inventory systems with concave ordering costs. September 2018; In: Naval Research Logistics. Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 291-302

Shen, Xiaobei; Bao, Lina; Yu, Yimin / Coordinating Inventory and Pricing Decisions with General Price-Dependent Demands. July 2018; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 27, No. 7, pp. 1355-1367

Bao, Lina; Liu, Zhiying; Yu, Yimin; Zhang, Wei / On the decomposition property for a dynamic inventory rationing problem with multiple demand classes and backorder. February 2018; In: European Journal of Operational Research. Vol. 265, No. 1, pp. 99-106

Yang, Yi; Yu, Yimin; Huang, Tingliang / Myopic Analysis for Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems with Batch Ordering and Nonstationary/Time-Correlated Demands. January 2017; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 31-46

Dong, Maggie Chuoyan; Liu, Zhiqiang; Yu, Yimin; Zheng, Jin-Hui / Opportunism in distribution networks: The role of network embeddedness and dependence. October 2015; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 24, No. 10, pp. 1657-1670

Yu, Yimin; Benjaafar, Saif; Gerchak, Yigal / Capacity Sharing and Cost Allocation among Independent Firms with Congestion. August 2015; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 1285-1310

Hua, Zhongsheng; Yu, Yimin; Zhang, Wei; Xu, Xiaoyan / Structural properties of the optimal policy for dual-sourcing systems with general lead times. March 2015; In: IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers). Vol. 47, No. 8, pp. 841-850

Huang, Tingliang; Yu, Yimin / Sell probabilistic goods? a behavioral explanation for opaque selling. September 2014; In: Marketing Science. Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 743-759



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