Research
*Indicates first author by contribution
Working Papers
1. Incentivizing Smallholder Supplier Sustainability under Behavioral Regularities
Yuan Shi*, Iskandar Z Siregar, Yanchong Zheng
- 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. Incentive Design for Sustainable Practices in Smallholder Supply Chains
Yuan Shi*, Joann de Zegher, Yanchong Zheng
- Accepted for presentation at 2025 Early-Career Sustainable Operations Management Workshop
- Accepted for presentation at 2024 MSOM Main Conference
3. Optimizing Nonprofit Operations under Display-Dependent Demand
Joint work with Karen Yanchong Zheng and Mahyar Eftekhar, in collaboration with Midwest Food Bank, Arizona
- Accepted for presentation at 2025 MSOM Main Conference
Publications
4. Two-Sided Benefit of Price Transparency in Smallholder Supply Chains
Yuan Shi*, Joann de Zegher, Irene Lo
Management Science, Forthcoming
- 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)
5. 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)
6. 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
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.