Position

2023.10, School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Assistant Professor

2022.10 ~ 2023.10, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Postdoc (Advisor: Prof. Ming Hu)

Education

2016.09 ~ 2020.07, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, PhD

2018.03 ~ 2019.05, Rotman School of Management, U of T, Visiting Student (Advisor: Prof. Ming Hu)

General Information

I have published 9 papers in journals such as NRL, EJOR, TRE, IEEE TEM, IJPE, AOR, OMEGA, and COR.

I host a youth project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and three other projects.

I have co-supervised three PhD candidates and one undergraduate student at the School of Management, USTC.

I teach Game Theory at the School of Affairs, USTC in the spring semester.

I am a reviewer for journals such as EJOR, TRE, Omega, IJPE, JORS, etc.

Publication & Working Paper

Revenue Management and Pricing

1. Hongqiao Chen, Ming Hu, Jing Peng (2023). Socially Responsible Pricing. Major revision at Operations Research.

2. Ming Hu, Jing Peng, Ruxian Wang (2024). Default or Dare: The Default Effect on Consumer Choice, Assortment, Pricing, and Estimation. R&R at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

3. Jing Peng* (2022). Committed vs.  contingent pricing under cost uncertainty. Naval Research Logistics. 69(5), 734-745. (AJG3/ABS3)

Crowdfunding and Advance Selling

1. S Du, J Peng, T Nie*, Y Yu (2020). Pricing strategies and mechanism choice in reward-based crowdfunding. European Journal of Operational Research, 284(3), 951-966. (AJG4/ABS4)

2. J Peng, J Zhang, T Nie*, Y Zhu, S Du (2020). Pricing and package size decisions in crowdfunding. Transportation Research Part E, 143, 102091. (AJG3/ABS3)

3. S Du, Y Chen, J Peng, T Nie* (2022). Incorporatingriskfairnessconcernsintowinefuturesunderqualityuncertainty. Omega, 113, 102717. (AJG3/ABS3)

Live Streaming Commerce and Pricing

1. J Peng, J Zhang, T Nie* (2023). Social influence and channel competition in the live-streaming market. Annals of Operations Research, doi:10.1007/s10479-023-05548-3. (AJG3/ABS3)

2. S Du, Q Dong (student), J Peng*, T Nie (2023). Brand or regular manufacturer? Influencer's cooperation strategies under reputation risk. IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management, doi:10.1109/TEM.2023.3298232. (AJG3/ABS3)

3. S Du, J Sheng (student), J Peng*, Y Zhu (2022). Competitive implications of personalized pricing with a dominant retailer. Transportation Research Part E, 161, 102690. (AJG3/ABS3)

Miscellaneous

1. J Peng, Y Zhang* (student), T Nie*, Z Liu, J Zhang, Q Meng (2025). Composite contract design for enhancing emergency reserves. International Journal of Production Economics. Accepted (AJG3/ABS3)

2. S Du, Y Zhang (student), J Peng* (2024). Balancing responsibilities and benefits in newsvendor orders. Major revision at International Journal of Production Research. (AJG3/ABS3)

3. A Che, X Wu, J Peng, P Yan* (2017). Energy-efficient bi-objective single-machine scheduling with power-down mechanism. Computers & Operations Research, 85, 172-183. (AJG3/ABS3)

Projects and Subsidy

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund Project (72401280), 2025/01-2027/12, 300,000CNY, Hoster (Research on Assortment Optimization and Pricing)

2. USTC Research Funds of the Double First-ClassInitiative, Key Project (FSSF-A-240201), 2024/04-2026/03, 100,000CNY, Hoster (Research on Assortment Optimization and Pricing)

3. Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, Young Scientists Fund Project (ZR2022QG022), 2023/01-2025/12, 150,000CNY, Hoster (Research on Live-Streaming Commerce Operations Management)

4. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, General Project (2021M691912), 2021/06-2023/12, 50,000CNY, Hoster (Research on Live-Streaming Commerce Operations Management)

5. Shandong Young Scholars Subsidy, 150,000CNY, 2021

6. National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Project (71971201), 2020/01-2023/12, 500,000CNY, Main participant  (Research on Platform Operations Management)

7. National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Project (72071193), 2021/01-2024/12, 490,000CNY, Participant (Research on Platform Operations Management)

Students

1. Qi Dong (PhD Candidate at the School of Management, USTC)

2. Yu Zhang (PhD Candidate at the School of Management, USTC)

3. Jianchao Sheng (PhD Candidate at the School of Management, USTC)

4. Haojie Xin (Undergraduate Student at the School of Management, USTC)

Talks

1. Default or Dare: The Default Effecton Consumer Choice, Assortment, Pricing, and Estimation

    INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (2024)

    CoLSCM, Barcelona, Spain (2024)

2. Socially Responsible Pricing

    POMS-HK International Conference, HK (2024)

    INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ (2023)