Zepeng CHEN (陈泽鹏)

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Research Assistant Professor [Official Website],
Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
11 Yuk Choi Rd,
Hung Hom, Hong Kong
E-mail: zepeng.chen(at)polyu(dot)edu(dot)hk

Curriculum Vitae
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If you are a graduate or doctoral student interested in game theoretical applications in business research and would like to join our team as a research assistant, feel free to reach out via email!

Education

P.hD, Operations Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2025

    Advisors: Guang XIAO, Yulan WANG and Xiaomeng GUO

Visiting P.hD, Operations and Information Management, University of Connecticut, 2024

    Advisor: Fasheng XU

M.Phil, Operations Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 08.2022

    Advisors: Guang XIAO, Yulan WANG and Xiaomeng GUO

M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, 06.2020

    Advisor: Ke FU

B.B.A., Industrial Engineering, South China University of Technology, 06.2018

B.E., Computer Science & Technology, South China University of Technology, 06.2018

Research

  1. "Innovation Against Imitation: How to Compete with Crowdfunding Copycats?" (with Xiaomeng Guo, Guang Xiao and Fasheng Xu), Forthcoming at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

    • [M&SOM], [SSRN]
    • Accepted for 2023 MSOM iFORM SIG Conference, Montreal, Canada
    • Oral presentation at 2023 POMS Annual Conference, Orlando, USA

  2. "Duopoly price competition with quality improvement spillover" (with Xin Geng, Xiaomeng Guo and Guang Xiao), Naval Research Logistics (NRL) 69(7): 958-973.

    • [NRL]
    • Oral presentation at 2022 POMS China, Virtual

  3. "Pricing Strategies Against Quality Imitation" (with Xiaomeng Guo, Yulan Wang and Guang Xiao)

    • Under Review

  4. "Reproducibility in Management Science" (Note: Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.), Management Science 70(3), 1343-1356.

Grants

  1. PolyU Start-up Fund (HKD 300,000), PI, 2025-2027
  2. NSFC Special Program (CNY 2,000,000), Major Participants, 2026-2029