Junyu Cao

University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business

Austin, TX

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

18

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Scholarly Papers (18)

1.

Stall Economy: The Value of Mobility in Retail on Wheels

Forthcoming, Operations Research
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2023
Junyu Cao and Wei Qi
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
Downloads 850 (59,527)
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stall economy, mobile retail, self-driving, rendezvous problem, spatial queues

2.

Doubly Adaptive Cascading Bandits with User Abandonment

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 05 May 2023
Junyu Cao, Wei Sun and Zuo-Jun Max Shen
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
Downloads 647 (84,973)
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cascading model, doubly adaptive, learning to rank, abandonment, bandits

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Learning from Click Transition Data: The Effectiveness of Greedy Pricing Policy under Dynamic Product Availability

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2024
Mo Liu, Junyu Cao and Zuo-Jun Max Shen
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
Downloads 462 (129,040)
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dynamic attraction model, optimal pricing policy, click model, product availability

4.

Online Facility Location: Running Stores on Wheels with Spatial Demand Learning

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2024
Junyu Cao, Wei Qi and Yan Zhang
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering and McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, Students
Downloads 446 (134,706)

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mobile retail, facility location, contextual bandits, continuous approximation, joint learning and optimization

5.

Adaptive Data Acquisition for Personalized Recommender Systems with Optimality Guarantees on Short-Form Video Platforms

Forthcoming, Management Science
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 May 2021 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2024
Junyu Cao and Yan Leng
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 392 (156,755)

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pure exploration, information acquisition, transductive learning, short-form video platforms, recommender systems

6.

Intertemporal Pricing via Nonparametric Estimation: Integrating Reference Effects and Consumer Heterogeneity

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2022
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
Downloads 343 (181,196)

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reference effect, consumer heterogeneity, data-driven, intertemporal pricing, nonparametric estimation, online retailing

7.

Urban Courier: Operational Innovation and Data-driven Coverage-and-Pricing

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2022
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
Downloads 317 (197,071)

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urban courier delivery, joint scheduling and pricing, data-driven distributionally robust optimization, maximum weighted coverage

8.

Value of One Data Point: Active Label Acquisition in Assortment Optimization

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 26 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2024
Mo Liu, Junyu Cao and Zuo-Jun Max Shen
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
Downloads 274 (229,664)

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active label acquisition, personalized incentive, assortment optimization, product selection

9.

Collaborative Learning and Decision-Making on Pricing and Recommendation: A Simple Framework for Planning

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2025
Junyu Cao
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 258 (244,046)

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data-driven decision-making, contextual bandit, centralized and decentralized planners, greedy algorithm, collaborative decision-making

10.

Coordinate Package Delivery and On-Demand Rides: A Zoning Policy and Analysis

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 28 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 03 May 2024
Junyu Cao and Sheng Liu
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and Rotman School of Management
Downloads 247 (255,045)

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logistics, co-modality, ride-hailing, transportation

11.

Safe Reinforcement Learning with Contextual Information: Theory and Applications

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Oct 2023
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University and Texas A & M University
Downloads 231 (272,150)

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safe reinforcement learning, personalized medicine, regret analysis, contextual optimization

12.

"Uber" Your Cooking: The Sharing-Economy Operations of a Ghost-Kitchen Platform

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2024
Junyu Cao, Feihong Hu and Wei Qi
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Red McCombs School of Business, Students and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
Downloads 212 (295,386)

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ghost kitchens, sharing-economy, fork-join queue, on-demand service, vehicle routing

13.

Tiered Assortment: Optimization and Online Learning

Forthcoming, Management Science
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2023
Junyu Cao and Wei Sun
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Downloads 184 (336,686)
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data-driven assortment optimization, sequential decision making, choice model, bandit algorithm

14.

Retail on Autonomous Wheels: A Time-Sensitive Traveling Salesman Problem

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 20 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2024
Zhuolun Dong, Junyu Cao and Wei Qi
University of Texas at Austin, Red McCombs School of Business, Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management, Students, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
Downloads 161 (378,300)

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continuous approximation, TSP, time-sensitive TSP, mobile retail

15.

Connected Population Synthesis for Transportation Simulation

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (2019) , 103, 1-16.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 May 2019
University of California, Berkeley - Department of System Engineering, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 143 (417,364)
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population synthesis, cellular data, Bayesian networks, structural learning, mixed integer programming, exponential random graph model, agent-based modeling, transportation simulation

16.

Network-Enabled Sequential Data Acquisition

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Apr 2022
Junyu Cao and Yan Leng
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 133 (441,928)

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Data acquisition, recommender system, design science, consumer network, machine learning

17.

A Conformal Approach to Feature-Based Newsvendor Under Model Misspecification

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Dec 2024
Junyu Cao
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 43 (841,501)

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feature-based newsvendor, conformal prediction, data-driven decision-making, quantile regression, data quality and quantity

18.

Revenue-Centered Delivery Time Presentation on Platforms:  A Spatial Neural ODE Approach

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2024
Junyu Cao, Yan Leng and Hao Wang
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of California, Berkeley
Downloads 32 (937,049)

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information presentation, deep learning, spatio-temporal learning, ordinary differential equations, delivery time prediction