个人简介
I am currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
I worked as a postdoctoral fellow under the guidance of Prof. Ming Hu at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, from Oct. 2022 to Oct. 2023.
I received my PhD in Management Science from the School of Management at USTC, where I was enrolled from Sep. 2016 to July 2020.
My research interests lie in social operations management, revenue management and pricing, and the interface of operations management and marketing.
I have co-supervised some students, including PhD candidates from the School of Management and an undergraduate from the School of the Gifted Young at USTC.
In teaching, I am responsible for courses including Game Theory, Academic Norms and Thesis Writing, and Public Administration Case Writing and Analysis.
I am a committee member of the Youth Work Committee under the Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning, and Economical Mathematics.
I was invited to serve as the group leader for the exchange meeting of the
"2025 NSFC Management Science and Engineering Young Scientists Fund Program".
I serve as a reviewer for several journals, including EJOR, Omega, TRE, IEEE TEM, IJPR, IJPE, JORS, and MDE.
Work Experience & Education
2023.10 ~, School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China, Assistant Professor
2025.11 ~ 2026.11, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Visiting Professor
2022.10 ~ 2023.10, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Postdoc (Advisor: Prof. Ming Hu)
2018.03 ~ 2019.05, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Visiting Student (Ibid)
2016.09 ~ 2020.07, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, PhD
Currently Core Research
My currently core research agenda on social responsible operations, behavioral choice, and pricing.
1. H Chen, M Hu, J Peng (2024). Socially Responsible Pricing, under second-round review at Operations Research (Major Revision).
2. M Hu, J Peng, R Wang (2024). Default or Dare: The Default Effect on Consumer Choice, Assortment, Pricing, and Estimation.
under review.
3. J Peng* (2022). Committed vs. contingent pricing under cost uncertainty. Naval Research Logistics. 69(5), 734-745.
Foundational Lead-Authored Research
My early work developed analytical models of pricing and operational decisions in then-emerging operational settings involving multi-stage strategic interactions, consumer behavior, and externalities.
1. S Du, J Peng, T Nie*, Y Yu (2020). Pricing strategies and mechanism choice in reward-based crowdfunding.
European Journal of Operational Research, 284(3), 951-966.
2. J Peng, J Zhang, T Nie*, Y Zhu, S Du (2020). Pricing and package size decisions in crowdfunding.
Transportation Research Part E, 143, 102091.
3. J Peng, J Zhang, T Nie* (2025). Social influence and channel competition in the live-streaming market.
Annals of Operations Research, 344, 617-645.
Collaborative Research with Students
Supervised research in applied analytical operations management, focusing on platform and channel operations, socially responsible operations, and policy-relevant supply chain design.
1. S Du, J Sheng^, J Peng*, Y Zhu (2022). Competitive implications of personalized pricing with a dominant retailer.
Transportation Research Part E, 161, 102690.
2. S Du, Q Dong^, J Peng*, T Nie (2024). Brand or regular manufacturer? Influencer's cooperation strategies under reputation risk.
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71, 9109-9123.
3. J Peng, Y Zhang^, T Nie*, Z Liu, J Zhang, Q Meng (2025). Composite contract design for enhancing emergency reserves.
International Journal of Production Economics, 283, 109581.
4. S Du, Y Zhang^, J Peng* (2025). Balancing responsibilities and benefits in newsvendor orders.
International Journal of Production Research, accepted. —第十五届中国“双法”研究会青年论坛优秀论文
5. S Du, Y Chen^, J Peng, T Nie* (2022). Incorporating risk fairness concerns into wine futures under quality uncertainty.
Omega, 113, 102717.
6. Information design in procurement auctions, work in progress, with Y Tong^.
Pre-PhD Work
My early work before PhD training (scheduling and optimization).
1. A Che, X Wu, J Peng, P Yan* (2017). Energy-efficient bi-objective single-machine scheduling with power-down mechanism.
Computers & Operations Research, 85, 172-183.
"^" means student co-author and "*" means corresponding author.
Competitive Research Grants
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key Program (72531009), 2026-2030, Sub-Project Leader (国家自然科学基金重点项目，子课题负责人)
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund Program (72401280)，2025-2027, Principal Investigator (国家自然科学基金青年项目，主持人)
3. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK2160250027), 2026-2027, Principal Investigator
4. USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative, Key Program (FSSF-A-240201), 2024-2026, Principal Investigator
5. Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, Young Scientists Fund Program (ZR2022QG022), 2023-2025, Principal Investigator
6. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, General Program (2021M691912), 2021-2023, Principal Investigator
7. National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program (71971201), 2020-2023, Main Participant
8. National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program (72071193), 2021-2024, Participant
Competitive Subsidies
1. Mozi Outstanding Youth Special Allowance, 2025 (中科大墨子优秀青年特殊津贴)
2. Young Backbone Teachers Study Abroad Program, 2025 (CSC和中科大联合资助2人/年)
3. Shandong Young Scholars Subsidy, 2021 (山东省人力资源社保局发放)
Talks
1. Socially Responsible Pricing
—CORS Annual Conference, Kingston, ON (2026)
—POMS Annual Conference, Reno, NV (2026)
—POMS-HK International Conference, HK (2024)
—INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ (2023)
2. Default or Dare: The Default Effect on Consumer Choice, Assortment, Pricing, and Estimation
—INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (2024)
—CoLSCM, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
My webpage: j-peng.com