Ningyuan Chen

Dr. Ningyuan Chen is currently an associate professor at the Department of Management at the University of Toronto, Mississauga and at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Before joining the University of Toronto, he was an assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) department at Columbia University in 2015. His research is focused on machine learning and data-driven decision-making in business applications such as dynamic pricing, revenue management, online retailing and experimental design. His studies have been published in Management Science, Operations Research, Annals of Statistics, NeurIPS and other journals and proceedings. His research is supported by the UGC of Hong Kong and the Discovery Grants Program of Canada. He is the recipient of the Roger Martin Award for Excellence in Research and the IMI Research Award. He has been working on projects with BAM, Polymatiks, and Alibaba.