Ruihao Zhu

Ruihao Zhu 

Assistant Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management
Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Contact

Email: ruihao.zhu[AT]cornell.edu

Biography

Ruihao Zhu is currently an Assistant Professor at the Nolan School of Hotel Administration within the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Previously, he received his Ph.D. degree (advisor: David Simchi-Levi) from MIT (2021) and his bachelor degrees from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2015) and the University of Michigan (2015).

Ruihao develops novel data science methodologies to inform decision-making in digital economy, pricing, and supply chain & logistics. He also enjoys tackling practically relevant problems and has been working closely with different companies to test and implement his methods. Ruihao's research has received the following recognitions:

Finalist, INFORMS Data Mining Best Theoretical Paper Award, 2024
Finalist, INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Best Paper Competition, 2024
Honorable Mention, INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2022
2nd Place, INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award, 2022
Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2021
Honorable Mention, INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 2019
Finalist, POMS-JD.com Best Data-Driven Research Paper Competition, 2019