Research Interests

• Interface of Operations and Finance

       -- Supply Chain Finance, Factoring & Reverse Factoring, Entrepreneurial Finance, Financial Market Frictions

• Online Marketplaces and Platforms

       -- Crowdfunding, Initial Coin Offering (ICO), Blockchain Platform, Tokenomics, Data Broker, FinTech

• Social Operations Management

       -- Network Effects, Social Learning, Social Influence, Word-of-Mouth, Online Influencer, Wisdom of the Crowd​​

• Social and Economic Networks

       -- Supply Chain Networks, Diffusion and Learning in Networks, Network Games, Network Traceability

• Information Economics

       -- Economics of Data and Privacy, Information Acquisition, Bayesian Persuasion, Information Design

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Journal Publications

• A Supply Chain Theory of Factoring and Reverse Factoring  [SSRN] 

       -- with Panos Kouvelis​​

       -- Forthcoming, Management Science​​

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Working Papers

• Crowdfunding under Social Learning and Network Externalities  [SSRN] 

       -- with Fuqiang Zhang​

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• Crowdfunding vs. Bank Financing: Effects of Market Uncertainty and Word-of-Mouth Communication  [SSRN] 

       -- with Xiaomeng Guo, Guang Xiao, Fuqiang Zhang​

           ○ 2019 MSOM iFORM SIG Conference​​

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• Operational Uncertainty and Crowdfunding Design

       -- with Panos Kouvelis, Weicai Peng​​​​

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• Market Frictions and Cash-in-Advance Financing

       -- with Panos Kouvelis, Wenhui Zhao​​​​

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• The Tokenvendor Problem: Tokenizing Cargo Reservations under Overbooking and No-Shows

       -- with Jacob Feldman, Panos Kouvelis, Yunzhe Qiu​​​

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• Blockchain Adoption for Traceability in Food Supply Chain Networks  [SSRN] 

       -- with Lingxiu Dong, Puping Jiang

           ○ Winner, 2020 POMS PITM Best Student Paper Competition​

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• Blockchain-Driven Deep-Tier Supply Chain Finance

       -- with Lingxiu Dong, Yunzhe Qiu​​​​​​

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• Consumer Privacy and Retail Platform Operations

       -- with Xiaoyu Wang, Fuqiang Zhang​

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Invited Seminars

• 05/2020 | Nanjing University, School of Management and Engineering (Online)

• 01/2020 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Faculty of Business

• 12/2018 | Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business

• 12/2018 | Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management​

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Conference Presentations

• 01/2020 | POMS Hong Kong 2020, Hong Kong

• 10/2019 | INFORMS Annual Meeting 2019, Seattle, WA

• 05/2019 | POMS Annual Conference 2019, Washington D.C. ​​​

• 11/2018 | INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018, Phoenix, AZ

• 07/2018 | MSOM Conference 2018, Dallas, TX

• 05/2018 | Supply Chain Finance & Risk Management Workshop 2018, St. Louis, MO

• 05/2018 | POMS Annual Conference 2018, Houston, TX

• 11/2017 | INFORMS Annual Meeting 2017, Houston, TX 

• 07/2017 | 10th International Annual Conference of CSAMSE, Guangzhou, China 

• 06/2017 | MSOM Conference 2017, Chapel Hill, NC

• 05/2017 | POMS Annual Conference 2017, Seattle, WA

• 11/2016 | INFORMS Annual Meeting 2016, Nashville, TN

• 06/2016 | MSOM Conference 2016, Auckland, New Zealand​

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Professional Services

• Conference Session Chair/Organizer 

       -- INFORMS Annual Meeting 2020: Innovations in Supply Chain Financing

       -- INFORMS Annual Meeting 2020: Emerging Topics in OM-Finance Interface

       -- POMS Annual Conference 2020: Blockchain-Driven Operations and Finance 

       -- POMS Annual Conference 2019: Blockchain-Driven Operations Management 

       -- INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018: Emerging Topics in Supply Chain Finance 

       -- INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018: Marketplace Innovation

       -- POMS Annual Conference 2018: OM and Crowdfunding

       -- POMS Annual Conference 2018: Economic Models in Supply Chain Management 

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• Discussant/Panelist

       -- 1st Online Doctoral Workshop on Supply Chain Analytics 2020

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• Reviewer

       -- Management Science

       -- Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

       -- Production and Operations Management

       -- Naval Research Logistics

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