Research
*Indicates lead author
Publications and Submitted Papers
1. Incentivizing Smallholder Farmer Sustainability under Behavioral Regularities
Yuan Shi*, Iskandar Z Siregar, Yanchong Zheng
Under Review at Management Science
- Winner, MIT Operations Research Center (ORC) Best Student Paper Award, 2025
- Accepted for presentation at 2025 MSOM Sustainable Operations SIG
- Accepted for presentation at 2025 Behavioral Operations Conference
2. Toward Permanence: Contract Design for Sustainable Agriculture
Yuan Shi*, Joann de Zegher, Yanchong Zheng; Previously circulated as Incentive Design for Sustainable Practices in Smallholder Supply Chains
Soon to be resubmitted to Management Science
- Accepted for presentation at 2025 Early-Career Sustainable Operations Management Workshop
- Accepted for presentation at 2024 MSOM Main Conference
3. Two-Sided Benefit of Price Transparency in Smallholder Supply Chains
Yuan Shi*, Joann de Zegher, Irene Lo
Management Science, Article in Advance (Link)
- 2nd Place, 2025 POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Competition
- Accepted for presentation at Marketplace Innovation Workshop 2022
- Accepted for presentation at ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO’22)
4. Surgical Scheduling via Optimization and Machine Learning with Long-Tailed Data
Yuan Shi*, Saied Mahdian, Jose Blanchet, Peter Glynn, Andrew Y. Shin, David Scheinker
Health Care Management Science, 2023
- Presented at INFORMS 2024 conference (featured as outstanding publication in Health Care Management Science)
5. Criteria for Early Pacemaker Implantation in Patients With Postoperative Heart Block After Congenital Heart Surgery
Son Q Duong, Yuan Shi, Heather Giacone, Brittany M Navarre, Dana B Gal, Brian Han, Danielle Sganga, Michael Ma, Charitha D Reddy, Andrew Y Shin, David M Kwiatkowski, Anne M Dubin, David Scheinker, Claudia A Algaze
Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 2022
Work in Progress
6. Optimizing Nonprofit Operations under Display-Dependent Demand
Yuan Shi*, Mahyar Eftekhar and Yanchong Zheng, in collaboration with Midwest Food Bank, Arizona
In Preparation for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Accepted for presentation at 2025 MSOM Main Conference [Extended Abstract]
7. Payment Models for Climate-Targeted Farming: A Field Experiment in India
With Alp Sungu and Yanchong Zheng, in collaboration with the World Bank 2030 Water Resources Group
Pilot experiment under way (AEA Registry: 15873)
Undergraduate Thesis
In a parallel academic universe, I wanted to become a theoretical physicist and had a lot of fun writing my thesis on gravitational wave detection.