Yilun Chen 陈逸伦

Assistant Professor
School of Data Science, CUHK-Shenzhen

chenyilun at cuhk dot edu dot cn 322b Daoyuan Building Google Scholar

Yilun Chen

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Data Science at CUHK-Shenzhen. I received my Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 2021, advised by David A. Goldberg. Before joining CUHK-Shenzhen, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia Business School, working with Yash Kanoria. I hold a B.S. in Mathematics from Yuanpei College, Peking University.

Research

My research is in Operations Research, with interests at the intersection of economics, theoretical computer science, and statistics. I study sequential decision-making under uncertainty, online resource allocation, dynamic matching, and algorithmic/mechanism design questions that arise in platforms and marketplaces.

Selected Awards

  • 2024 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Best Paper Award
  • 2024 Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering Best Paper Award
  • 2024 INFORMS RMP Jeff McGill Student Paper Award (awarded to Akshit Kumar)
  • 2019 INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, First Place