Research

Interests

Transportation and Logistics Systems, Marketplace Design

Working Papers

• Yan, C., Yan, J. and Shen, Y., Pricing Shared Rides, under major revision.

• Aouad, A., Saritac, O. and Yan, C., Centralized versus Decentralized Pricing Controls for Dynamic Matching Platforms.

  • ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) 2023

• Yan, C. and Ghate, A., A Dynamic Model for Airline Fleeting and Scheduling, under major revision.

• Sun, F., Sun, Y., Yan, C. and Jin, L., Restricting Entries to All-Pay Contests, under major revision.

• 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.

  • EC 2021 Workshop on People-Centric Systems

• 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., Johndrow, J., Woodard, D. and Sun, Y. Efficiency of ETA Prediction, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS), 6(2): 227-253, 2024. [arXiv][Notebook]

• Yang, Y., Yan, C., Cao, Y. and Roberti R., Planning Robust Drone-Truck Delivery Routes Under Road Traffic Uncertainty, European Journal of Operational Research, 309(3): 1145-1160, 2023.

• Yan, C., Barnhart, C. and Vaze, V., Choice-Based Airline Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment: A Decomposition Approach, Transportation Science, 56(6): 1410-1431, 2022. [SSRN][Data][Supplement]

  • Winner, Best Paper Award, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section, 2023

• Castro, F., Nazerzadeh, H. and Yan, C., Matching Queues with Reneging: A Product Form Solution, Queueing Systems, 96: 359-385, 2020. [arXiv]

• 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]

  • Winner of the 2021 Harold W. Kuhn Award, the best paper published over the past three years in NRL.

• 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]

  • Earlier version of this paper won Honorable Mention in 2012 INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Competition.

• Yan, C., Vaze, V. and Barnhart, C., Airline-Driven Ground Delay Programs: A Benefits Assessment, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 89: 268-288, 2018. [SSRN]

• 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

• Aouad, A., Sarıtaç, Ö. and Yan, C., Centralized Versus Decentralized Pricing Controls for Dynamic Matching Platforms, 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC ’23), London, United Kingdom, 2023.

• 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

• Yan, C. and Yang, L., Mixed-integer Programming Based Approaches for the Movement Planner Problem: Model, Heuristics and Decomposition, 2012.

  • First Place, 2012 INFORMS Railway Application Section Problem Solving Competition.

Dissertation

• Airline Scheduling and Air Traffic Control : Incorporating Uncertainty and Passenger and Airline Preferences.

  • Honorable Mention (Second Place), Best Dissertation Award, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society, 2018.

  • First Place, Best Dissertation Award, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section, 2018.

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