Shuo Sun

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I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at UC Berkeley, advised by Professors Zuo-Jun Max Shen and Rajan Udwani. Before that, I received my B.E. in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University in China in 2021.

I am on the 2025-2026 academic job market!

Preprints and Publications

  1. A Markovian Approach for Cross-Category Complementarity in Choice Modeling
    With Omar El Housni, and Rajan Udwani
    In preparation for submission
    Presented at 2025 INFORMS RMP conference    ,
    arXiv
  2. A Unified Algorithmic Framework for Dynamic Assortment Optimization under MNL Choice
    With Rajan Udwani, and Zuo-Jun Max Shen
    Major revision in Operations Research,
    Extended Abstract in 2025 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
    Finalist, 2024 INFORMS RMP Jeff McGill Student Paper Award
    Honorable mention, 2025 POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition
    arXiv
  3. JD.com Improves Fulfillment Efficiency with Data-driven Integrated Assortment Planning and Inventory Allocation
    With Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Yongzhi Qi, Hao Hu, Ningxuan Kang, Jianshen Zhang, Xin Wang and Xiaoming Lin
    To Appear in INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics,
    Winner of 2024 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize
  4. Online MDP with Prototypes Information: A Robust Adaptive Approach
    With Meng Qi, and Zuo-Jun Max Shen
    Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025

Honors and Awards

  • Honorable mention, POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, 2025

  • Winner, INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize, 2024

  • Finalist, INFORMS RMP Jeff Mcgill Best Student Paper Award, 2024

  • IEOR Ph.D. First-year Fellowship, 2021-2022

  • Finalist, INFORMS Undergraduate OR Prize, 2020

Invited Talks

  • A Markovian Approach for Cross-Category Complementarity in Choice Modeling
    INFORMS RMP 2025, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025

  • A Unified Algorithmic Framework for Dynamic Assortment Optimization under MNL Choice
    POMS-HK 2025, INFORMS RMP 2024, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023

  • JD.com Improves Fulfillment Efficiency with Data-driven Integrated Assortment Planning and Inventory Allocation
    INFORMS Analytics 2024 (Award Session)

  • Online MDP with Prototypes Information: A Robust Adaptive Approach
    ISMP 2024, AAAI 2025 (poster presentation)

Services

Reviewer for Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, MSOM SIG