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Tao YAO

  • Department:Data and Business Intelligence
  • Phone: 52301516
  • Title:Professor
  • Email:taoyao@sjtu.edu.cn
Profile

  • Tao Yao is Professor at Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University. He was Associate Professor with Tenure at the Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford, NUS, Peking University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University, Principal Engineer (P10) and Chief Scientist of Operations Research at Alibaba Damo Academy.  He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering and a M.S. in Engineering-Economics System and Operations Research from Stanford University, a M.S. in Mathematics from UCLA, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University. He has received research funding from NSF (5 regular grants), NSFC (3 grants, including an overseas distinguished young scholar grant), MAUTC/USDOT (5 grants), and industry.

    Selected Thesis Supervision

    Student Name

    Degree

    Granted

    Title of Thesis / Position

    Role

    [1]   Baichun Feng 

    PhD 

    8/2009 

    Outsourcing Under Uncertainty / Assistant Professor of Business at Webster Univ.

    Advisor 

    [2]   Yongma Moon 

    PhD

    5/2010 

    Essays on Investment Decisions under Uncertainty / Assistant Professor of Operations and Service Management at Univ. of Seoul

    Advisor 

    [3]   Byung Do Chung 

    PhD

    12/2010 

    Robust and Dynamic Models for Supply Chain and Transportation Networks / Assistant Professor of Information & Industrial Engineering at Yonsei Univ.

    Advisor 

    [4]   Bo Zhang 

    PhD

    08/2013

    Stochastic and Dynamic Models for Sustainable Transportation Systems / IBM Research

    Advisor 

    [5]   Amir Meimand

    PhD

    08/2013

    Differential Stackelberg Games and Their Applications to Dynamic Pricing, Production Planning, Network Design, and Logistics / Amazon

    Co-Advisor

    [6]   Andreas Thorsen 

    PhD

    08/2014

    Robust Optimization Models for Inventory Control / Assistant Professor of Management at Montana State University

    Advisor 

    [7]   Hongcheng Liu

    PhD

    08/2015

    Non-smooth Optimization with Applications in Transportation Management and Machine Learning /  Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Florida

    Advisor

    [8]   Yuqi Sun

    PhD

    12/2016

    Optimization Algorithms and Applications in Traffic Signal Control and Machine Learning

     / Microsoft

    Advisor

    [9]   Yiou Wang

    PhD 

    12/2017

    Optimal Control, Differential Variational Inequalities, and Their Application to Traffic Science, Revenue Management and Supply Chains / Starbucks，Senior Data Scientist

    Co-Advisor

    [10] Xue Wang

    PhD

    05/2019

    High Dimensional Statistical Learning and Decision Making / Alibaba Damo Academy

    Advisor


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Research

  • Dr. Yao's areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, optimization, machine learning, data science, business analytics, stochastic modeling, robust Optimization, revenue management, and game theory. He has more than 70 articles published in refereed research journals and conference proceedings including Management Science, athematical Programming, Annual of Statistics, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization, NeurIPS, ICML, KDD，IJCAI. He has received an honorable mention in the INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, several Best Paper Awards from IERC Supply Chain and Logistics track and CIS track, Best Paper Award (Finalist) from the INFORMS Service Science section, and Best Student Paper Award (Runner-up) from INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology. 

    He has been the Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management, on the Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, the Area Editor for Network and Spatial Economics, and on the committee on Transportation Network Modeling, ADB30, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. He has served as the track chair for the Manufacturing Operations track of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) 2017 annual conference, the president of the Computer and Information Systems (CIS) Division of Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE) and the chair of the 2011 Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) CIS track.

    See Google Scholar for the full list of publications.

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