Welcome to Rui Zhang (张锐)’s personal page!
I am an associate professor of Operations Management in the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations Division in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am the Faculty Director of the Master’s Program in Business Analytics. Before that, I served as the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Operations. Furthermore, I serve as Associate Editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing and Networks.
My official webpage is here.
My research interests are quantitative methods, especially prescriptive analytics techniques. My work focuses on revenue management problems, last-mile delivery, and influence maximization problems on social networks. My work has been published in Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS Journal on Optimization, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, and Networks, among others. In addition, I have won several Best Paper awards. A collection of my work was selected as the runner-up for the 2022 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize.
Please see the Research page for more details on my research.
You may find my CV here.