Prof. Lijian LU
Assistant Professor, Operations Management lijianlu@ust.hk

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Academic qualification
PhD Columbia Business School, Decision, Risk, and Operations
M.Sc. National University of Singapore, Management Science
B.Sc. Nanjing University, Mathematics

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Academic and Professional ExperienceAssistant Professor of ISOM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2020-Present
Chief Investment Officer & Founding Partner, UniQuant Capital, Shanghai, 2018 – 2020
Executive Director, China Innovation Fund, 2017 – 2018
Vice President, Goldman Sachs, New York, 2015 - 2017
Quantitative Strategist, The Knight Capital Group, New York, 2015 – 2015
Research Consultant, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, 2014 - 2014
Research Scientist, Amazon.com, Seattle, 2014 – 2014
Data Scientist, AppNexus, New York, 2013 - 2013

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ArticlesLiu, Z., Lu, L., Federgruen, A. “Synthesis and Generalization of Structural Results in Inventory Management: A Generalized Convexity Property”, Mathematics of Operations Research. 2020(45), 547-575.
Chan, C., Green, L., Lekwijit, S., Lu, L., Escobar, G. “Assessing the Impact of Service Level When Customer Needs Are Uncertain: An Empirical Investigation of Hospital Step-Down Units
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2017(19), 509-712.
Lu, L., Yan, X. “Capacity Investment Decisions under Risk Aversion
, Naval Research Logistics, 2016(62), 617-645.
Lu, L., Wu, Y. “Preferences for Contractual Forms in Supply Chains
PriceCompetition Based on Relative Prices
Dual Sourcing under Capacity Limits, Fixed Costs and Salvage Opportunities
Medicare Reform: Estimation of Impacts of Premium Support Systems" with Awi Federgruen, R&R at The RAND Journal of Economics.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS My primary research interests are in the area of data-driven decision-making in operations management and service systems. I am particularly interested in:
Methodology: Stochastic models, optimization, auction theory, econometrics.
Application: Supply chain management, pricing and revenue management, healthcare, Finance-operations interface, online digital economics, empirical and structural estimation.

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HONORS AND AWARDSEarly Career Scheme (ECS) Research Grant (PI), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2021-2024
Faculty Initiation Grant, HKUST, 2020 - 2023
The W. Edwards Deming Doctoral Research Grants
Jerome A. Chazen Doctoral Research Grants
Doctoral Fellowship at Columbia Business School.
NUS Research Fellowship.
Samsung Fellowship.
First Price of National Physics Competition.