Research
Interests
Transportation and Logistics Systems, Marketplace Design
Working Papers
Castro, F., Ma, H., Nazerzadeh, H. and Yan, C., Randomized FIFO Mechanisms, under major revision.
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) 2022
NBER Market Design Working Group 2021
MSOM Service SIG 2021
EC 2021 Workshop on Design of Online Platforms: Frontiers and Challenges
Castro, F., Frazier, P., Ma, H., Nazerzadeh, H. and Yan, C., Matching Queues, Flexibility and Incentives, under revision.
Xu, A., Yan, C., Goh, CY and Jaillet, P., A Locational Demand Model for Bike-Sharing, under major revision. [Code&Data] [Viz]
Finalist, Best Applied Paper, INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics, 2023.
Finalist, POMS-JD.com Best Data-Driven Research Paper Competition, 2019.
Best Data Exploration Award, Hubway Data Challenge, 2017.
Journal Publications
Yan, C., Zhu, H., Korolko, N. and Woodard, D., Dynamic Pricing and Matching in Ride-Hailing Platforms, Naval Research Logistics, 67(8): 705-724, 2020. [SSRN]
Yan, C., Swaroop, P., Ball, M.O., Barnhart, C. and Vaze, V., Majority Judgment over a Convex Candidate Space, Operations Research Letters, 47(4): 317-325, 2019. [PDF]
Yan, C. and Kung, J., Robust Aircraft Routing, Transportation Science, 52(1): 118-133, 2018. [SSRN][Data][Supplement]
Outstanding Paper in Air Transportation, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society, 2018.
First Place, AGIFORS Anna Valicek Award for Innovative Research in Airline Operations Research, 2015.
Best Presentation Award, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section, 2015.
Yan, C., Vaze, V., Vanderboll, A. and Barnhart, C., Tarmac Delay Policies: A Passenger-Centric Analysis, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 83: 42-62, 2016. [PDF]
Stranded at the Airport, The Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2016.
Airline tarmac rule leads to more passenger delays, study concludes, Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2016.
Why airport torture only got worse, Chicago Tribune, January 7, 2016.
Late Flights Rose After U.S. Bid to Stem Traveler Tarmac Holdups, Bloomberg Business, December 21, 2015.
New Rules to Prevent Airline Delays Are Backfiring, Fortune, January 6, 2016.
Study: Tarmac delay rule just makes things worse, USA Today, January 6, 2016.
Yan, C., Jiang, H. and Xie, S., Capacity optimization of an isolated intersection under the phase swap sorting strategy, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 60: 85-106, 2014. [SSRN][Video]
Conference Proceedings
Castro, F., Ma, H., Nazerzadeh, H. and Yan, C., Randomized FIFO Mechanisms, 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC ’22), Boulder, CO, 2022.
Ball, M.O., Swaroop, P., Barnhart C., Yan, C., Hansen, M., Kang, L., Liu, Y. and Vaze, V., Service Level Expectation Setting for Air Traffic
Flow Management: Practical Challenges and Benefits Assessment, Twelfth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2017), Seattle, WA, 2017.
Technical Reports
Dissertation
Filed Patents
Method and System for Managing Dynamic Loyalty Redemption, filed on March 26th 2018, with Richard Ratliff, Guillermo Gallego and Balakrishnan Vinod. [Video]
Method and System for Managing Overbooking, filed on July 6th 2018, with Richard Ratliff, Guillermo Gallego and Balakrishnan Vinod.
Funding
Amazon Science Research Award
PacTrans/US Department of Transportation
eScience Institute/Microsoft Azure
Service
Committee Chair, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Best Student Paper Award, 2023.
Vice Chair, Urban Transportation SIG, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society, 2021 - 2023.
Secretary/Treasurer, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section, 2020 - 2022.
Program Committee, INFORMS TSL Second Triennial Conference (2020), Tristan2022.
INFORMS Aviation Applications Section, Cluster Chair, 2019.
INFORMS Aviation Applications Section, Newsletter Editor, 2017.
Associate Editor: Operations Research (2024 - ), Transportation Science (2022 - ), Service Science (ad hoc)
Reviewer: Operations Research, Management Science, Transportation Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Stochastic Systems, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, European Journal of Operational Research, Discrete Optimization, Service Science, EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Computers and Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Operational Research Society
Editorial Board: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
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