Prof. Ying Ju CHEN
Professor, Operations Management imchen@ust.hk

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Academic qualification
PhD New York University, Stern School of Business (Operations Management)
M.S. National Taiwan University, Electrical Engineering
B.S. National Taiwan University, Electrical Engineering

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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEAssociate Professor, Dept. of ISOM and Dept. of IELM, HKUST, 2014 -- present
Assistant Professor, Dept. of IEOR, UC Berkeley, 2007 -- 2014

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ArticlesNingyuan Chen, Ying-Ju Chen, "Duopoly Competition with Network Effects in Discrete Choice Models
Financing an Agricultural Supply Chain with a Capital-Constrained Smallholder Farmer in Developing Economies
Information Provision and Farmer Welfare in Developing Economies
Optimal Design of Revenue-Maximizing Position Auctions with Consumer Search
The Impact of Contract Farming on Agricultural Product Supply in Developing Economies
To Bribe or Not in a Procurement Auction under Disparate Corruption Pressure
Innovative Online Platforms: Research Opportunities
Inducing Consumer Online Reviews Via Disclosure
Knowledge sharing and learning among smallholders in developing economies: Implications, incentives, and reward mechanisms," Operations Research, 2020, 68(2) 435-452
Yang Zhang, Ying-Ju Chen, "Optimal Nonlinear Pricing in Social Networks Under Asymmetric Network Information
Shipping to Heterogeneous Customers with Competing Carriers
Inducing Supply Chain Transparency through Supplier Encroachment
Learning with Projection Effects in Service Operations Systems
Information Provision Policies for Improving Farmer Welfare in Developing Countries: Heterogeneous Farmers and Market Selection
Selling Co-Products through a Distributor: The Impact on Product Line Design
On the Formation of Producers’ Information-Sharing Coalitions
Retailer Information Sharing with Supplier Encroachment
The Impact of Consumer Fairness Seeking on Distribution Channel Selection: Direct Selling vs. Agent Selling
Optimal pricing with sequential consumption in networks
Dual Coproduct Technologies: Implications for Process Development and Adoption
Optimal dynamic auctions for display advertising,"Operations Research,2017,65(4) 897-913.
Ying-Ju Chen, Brian Tomlin, and Yimin Wang, " Dual co-product technologies: Implications for process development and adoption,"Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2017,19(4) 692-712.
Chen-Nan Liao,Ying-Ju Chen, and Christopher Tang, "Information provision policies for improving farmer welfare in developing countries: Heterogeneous farmers and market selection,"Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2017, 21(2) 254-270.
Tingliang Huang, Zhe Yin, andYing-Ju Chen, "Managing posterior price matching: The role of customer boundedly rational expectations,"Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2017, 19(3) 385-402.
Chen-Nan Liao andYing-Ju Chen, "Farmers' information management in developing countries - A highly asymmetric information structure,”Production and Operations Management, 2017, 26(6) 1207-1220.
Xu Guan andYing-Ju Chen, "The interplay between information acquisition and quality disclosure,"Production and Operations Management,2017,26(3) 389-408.
Junjie Zhou andYing-Ju Chen, "Targeted information release in social networks
Combining Spot and Futures Markets: A Hybrid Market Approach to Dynamic Spectrum Access,"Operations Research, 64(4), 2016, 794-821.
Ying-Ju Chenand Ke-Wei Huang, "Pricing Data Services: Pricing by Minutes, by Gigs, or by Mega Bytes per Second
Key leaders in social networks
The economic value of market information for farmers in developing economies
Information sharing in a manufacturer-supplier relationship: Suppliers' incentive and production efficiency
Incentive for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing among farmers in developing economies
Service systems with experience-based anecdotal reasoning consumers
Product line design with seller-induced learning
Supply disruptions, heterogeneous beliefs, and production efficiencies
Strategic motive of introducing Internet channels in a supply chain
Hierarchical screening for capacity allocation in supply chains: the role of distributors
Co-product technologies: Product line design and process innovation
Training, production, and channel separation in ITC`s e-Choupal network
Impact of reseller's forecasting accuracy on channel member performance
Design of price mechanisms for network resource allocation via price of anarchy,"Mathematical Programming, 2012, 131, 333-364.
Ying-Ju Chen, Stephen Shum, and Wenqiang Xiao, "Should an OEM retain component procurement when the CM produces competing products?
Returns policy and quality design in e-business
Optimal selling scheme for heterogeneous consumers with uncertain valuations
Is persuasive advertising always combative in a distribution channel?'',Marketing Science,2009, 28, 1157-1163.
Ying-Ju Chenand Gustavo Vulcano, "Effects of information disclosure under first- and second-price auctions in a supply chain setting
Sourcing through auctions and audits
Product development and pricing strategy for information goods under heterogeneous outside opportunities
research-interests">RESEARCH INTERESTS Socially responsible operations
Operations-marketing interface
Supply chain management

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HONORSRanked No. 5 among researchers in Asia and Australasia by frequency of authorship in Operations Management according to an article in Int. J. Prod. Eco. (2017)
Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance, HKUST School of Business and Management, 2015
Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Social Science, third prize), Ministry of Education, 2015
Harold W. Kuhn Award of Naval Research Logistics, 2014
Best paper award (third prize), Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), 2013
2nd place, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper competition, 2010
Harold MacDowell Award, NYU Stern, 2008
Stern Award for Teaching Excellence, NYU, 2006