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Zihao Qu

Assistant Professor

Operations & Information Management
Zihao Qu is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of

Zihao Qu is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on real-time decision making under uncertainty. He develops analytical models and algorithms to help organizations make better operational decisions in settings such as healthcare, cloud computing, and online platforms. His work has been published in Operations Research. 

Education

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas, 2024
BBA, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2018

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst, 2024-present

Research Interests

Capacity and Revenue Management
Resource Allocation

Teaching Interests

Supply chain management
Emerging technologies
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Selected Publications

Spatial Matching with Delays. (with Xingyu Bai and Yufei Wang). 

Dynamic Balancing and Matchmaking in Competitive Live-Service Games. (with Jialin Li and Mengfan Xu).

 

"A Near-Optimal Algorithm for Real-Time Order Acceptance: An Application in Postacute Healthcare Services." (with Milind Dawande and Ganesh Janakiraman). Operations Research, 70(4), 2213-2225, 2022.

"Cloud Cost Optimization: Model, Bounds, and Asymptotics." (with Milind Dawande and Ganesh Janakiraman). Operations Research, 72(1), 132-150, 2023.