Prof. YU Yimin
虞義敏教授
Professor
PhD - Industrial Engineering (University of Minnesota)
BS - Automatic Control (University of Science and Technology of China)
+852 34424781
Fax
+852 34420189
Office
LAU-7-279
Email
yiminyu@cityu.edu.hk
Personal Web
https://sites.google.com/site/yiminyu/
Public CV
https://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/portfolio/getCV.cfm?filename=174007.pdf&eid=yiminyu…

Research Areas

Inventory Models
Emerging Supply Chain Strategies
The Interface of Operations Management and Marketing
Behavior Models

Biography

Yimin Yu received his Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on supply chain management and service operations. This includes topics on optimal design of inventory-production systems, incentive issues in supply chains and pricing strategies. His research work has been published in leading business journals including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Marketing Science, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management. His papers can be downloaded from this page: https://sites.google.com/site/yiminyu/research His current research projects explore how incomplete information affects business strategies, including the robustness of  microeconomic models in the presence of model uncertainty, and data driven decision-making.

 

Administrative Assignments

PeriodNamePosition
3/2021 - NowManagement Sciences PhD ProgrammeCoordinator
9/2018 - 6/2020MSc. in Operations and Supply Chain Management (MSc. OSCM)Program Leader

External Academic Activities

PeriodOrganizerCountry / RegionRole
1/2019 - NowService Science (INFORMS)United States of AmericaAssociate Editor

Awards

Award TitleInstitution
Finalist, INFORMS JFIG paper competitionINFORMS
IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation AwardIIE

Research Grant

PI: "Robust Salesforce Compensation with Inventory Considerations", GRF - Hong Kong Research Grants Council,, Amount: $ 385,200 (2018-2020), Yimin Yu
co-PI: "Safety, Reliability, and Disruption Management of High Speed Rail and Metro Systems", Theme-based Research Scheme - Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Amount: 40,845,000 HKD (2016-2020), Tsui et. al.
PI: "Managing Capacitated Multi-Echelon Supply Chains", GRF - Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Amount: 350,000 HKD (2015-2017), Yimin Yu and Saif Benjaafar
PI: "Managing Perishable Food Processing Supply Chains", GRF - Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Amount: 378,789 HKD (2014-2016), Yimin Yu

Publications

Yu, Yimin; Wang, Huihui / Dynamic Multi-product Procurement With Joint and Individual Setup Costs: Theory and Insights. October 2024; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 2091-2109
Zhu, Han; Yu, Yimin; Ray, Saibal / Quality Disclosure Strategy under Customer Learning Opportunities. April 2021; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 1136-1153
Yu, Yimin; Kong, Xiangyin / Robust Contract Designs: Linear Contracts and Moral Hazard. September 2020; In: Operations Research. Vol. 68, No. 5, pp. 1457-1473
Shen, Xiaobei; Yu, Yimin / Capacity Allocation with Multiple Suppliers and Multiple Demand Classes. November 2019; In: Production and Operations Management. Vol. 28, No. 11, pp. 2792-2807
Bao, Lina; Liu, Zhiying; Yu, Yimin / On the decomposition property for a dynamic inventory rationing problem with multiple demand classes and backorder. February 2018; In: European Journal of Operational Research. Vol. 265, No. 1, pp. 99-106