Chen Yang (杨晨）
Email: chenyang12@zju.edu.cn

I am an Assistant Professor (ZJU-100 Young Professor, 百人计划研究员) in the Department of Service Science and Operations Management, School of Management at Zhejiang University. Before that, I obtained my Ph.D. in Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics (IEDA) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where I was very fortunate to be advised by Professor Jin Qi.

My research interests lie in understanding the uncertainty in data-driven decision-making. Specifically, I am working on healthcare operations management, trustworthy machine learning, and other broad topics in operations research, with tools such as distributionally robust optimization, stochastic programming, and risk measures.

Employment

• Assistant Professor, School of Management, Zhejiang University, 2025 - present

Education

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2020-2025
• M.Phil in Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2018-2019
• B.S. in Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014-2018

Publications

Journal Publications

• Elective Surgery Sequencing and Scheduling under Uncertainty
  Xiaojin Fu, Jin Qi, Chen Yang*, Han Ye
  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2024) 26(3):893-910
  2023 POMS-HK Best Student Paper Award Finalist

Conference Proceedings

• Fragility Index: A New Approach for Binary Classification
  Chen Yang, Ziqiang Zhang, Bo Cao, Zheng Cui, Bin Hu, Tong Li, Daniel Zhuoyu Long, Jin Qi, Feng Wang, Ruohan Zhan
  Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2023), 2918-2929

• Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem with a Multiagent System
  Chen Yang, Kwok Yip Szeto
  2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 158 - 165

Preprints

• Fragility-aware Classification for Understanding Risk and Improving Generalization with Zheng Cui, Daniel Zhuoyu Long, Jin Qi, Ruohan Zhan

Selected Awards

• 2023 POMS-HK Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2023
• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, 2020-2023
• HKUST Redbird Award, 2020

Professional Activities

Reviewer for Naval Research Logistics, Production and Operations Management Society, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Session chair at POMS-HK 2024.