个人简介
I am currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy & Management, 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
Current Research
My current research studies operational design and pricing under behavioral responses and social considerations, with applications in platform and service systems.
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.
Major revision at Production and Operations Management.
3. AI Operations Project (work in progress, with Ming Hu)
Earlier Publications
These publications were completed during my PhD and early research period in analytical operations management.
1. J Peng* (2022). Committed vs. contingent pricing under cost uncertainty. Naval Research Logistics. 69(5), 734-745.
2. 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.
3. J Peng, J Zhang, T Nie*, Y Zhu, S Du (2020). Pricing and package size decisions in crowdfunding.
Transportation Research Part E, 143, 102091.
4. 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
I supervise and mentor student research in applied analytical operations management.
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, 64(6), 2256-2268. —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. S Du, Y Tong^, J Peng* (2026). Truthful vs. manipulated expert evaluation: bribery and incentives in procurement,
working paper.
7. S Du, J Wang^, J Peng* (2026). Regular vs. traceability livestreaming: information design under consumer uncertainty,
working paper.
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
—MSOM Annual Conference, Boston, MA (2026)
—CORS Annual Conference, Kingston, ON (2026)
—ESDI Annual Conference, Porto, Portugal (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