Ruihao Zhu
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Assistant Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management 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 works on developing novel data science methodologies (e.g., RL and LLM agents) to inform decision-making in revenue management, logistics & supply chain, and service operations. 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:
• 2nd Place, POMS Chelliah Sriskandarajah Early Career Research Accomplishments Award, 2025
• 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