Chonghuan Wang 「王崇焕」

I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas since August 2025. Prior to joining UT Dallas, I earned my Ph.D. from MIT in 2025, advised by Prof. David Simchi-Levi. I received my bachelor's degree in information engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2020 advised by Prof. Haiming Jin and Prof. Xinbing Wang.

My research focuses on improving decision-making in complex and dynamic operational systems by leveraging the power of data, causal inference, experimentation and AI. I am also broadly interested in management science, machine learning, econometrics and their interplay.

Email: Chonghuan.Wang [at] utdallas.edu / chonghuanwang9 [at] gmail.com

Address: JSOM 3.605, 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080

Feel free to drop me a line if you are interested in working together! Students at all levels, both undergraduate and graduate students, are very welcomed!

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Research
LLM and Generative AI
What Matters in Data for DPO?
Yu Pan, Zhongze Cai, Huaiyang Zhong, Guanting Chen, Chonghuan Wang
  • Working paper
    • Understanding the Impact of Sampling Quality in Direct Preference Optimization
    Kyung Rok Kim, Yumo Bai, Chonghuan Wang, Guanting Chen
  • Working paper
    [Arxiv]
    • Experimentation and Experimental Design
    Choosing the Better Bandit Algorithm under Data Sharing: When Do A/B Experiments Work?
    Shuangning Li, Chonghuan Wang, Jingyan Wang
  • Working paper
    [Arxiv]
    • Experimenting on Markov Decision Process with Local Treatments
    Shuze Chen, David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang
  • Working paper
    [Arxiv]
    • Multi-armed Bandit Experimental Design: Online Decision-making and Adaptive Inference
    David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang. Management Science, 2024
  • MSOM Conference TIE SIG 2024
  • POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition 2024, Honorable Mention
  • Preliminary version accepted by AISTATS, 2023
    [MS] [AISTATS] [SSRN]

    • Pricing Experimental Design: Causal Effect, Expected Revenue and Tail Risk
    David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang. Management Science, 2025
  • Preliminary version accepted by ICML, 2023
    [MS] [ICML] [SSRN]
    • Non-stationary Experimental Design under Structured Trends
    David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang, Zeyu Zheng
  • Preliminary version accepted by NeurIPS, 2023
  • Working Paper
    [SSRN] [NeurIPS]
    • On Experimentation With Heterogeneous Subgroups: An Asymptotic Optimal δ-Weighted-PAC Design
    David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang, Jiamin Xu
  • Working paper
    [SSRN]
    • Aligning Incentives to Balance Covariates in Experiments with Selection Bias
    Jiachun Li, Yang Meng, David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang
  • Working paper
    • Data-Driven Revenue Management
    Context-Based Dynamic Pricing with Separable Demand Models
    Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang. Management Science, Forthcoming.
  • Preliminary version accepted by NeurIPS, 2022
    [SSRN] [NeurIPS]
    • Contextual Offline Demand Learning and Pricing with Separable Models
    Menglong Li, David Simchi-Levi, Renfei Tan, Chonghuan Wang, Michelle Wu. Management Science, Forthcoming
    [SSRN]
    Transportation Optimization
    Optimizing Cross-Line Dispatching for Minimum Electric Bus Fleet
    Chonghuan Wang, Yiwen Song, Guiyun Fan, Haiming Jin, Lu Su, Fan Zhang, Xinbing Wang.
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2021 DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2021.3119421
  • Undergraduate thesis
    [TMC]
    • Towards Minimum Fleet for Ridesharing-Aware Mobility-on-Demand Systems
    Chonghuan Wang, Yiwen Song, Yifei Wei, Guiyun Fan, Haiming Jin, Fan Zhang.
  • IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2021DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM42981.2021.9488862
  • Undergraduate thesis
    [INFOCOM]
    • Teaching
    1.275/IDS.305 Business and Operations Analytics (Spring 2023)
    Teaching Assistant, Evaluation: 6.6/7.0
    Enrollment: 42 (primarily MIT Sloan MBA students, Supply Chain Management (SCM) Master’s students, and Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) Master’s students)
    Summer School: Research Experience in Data Science (Summer 2024)
    Lecturer, Evaluation: 4.8/5.0
    Six-week summer school at MIT for 10 undergraduates from the City University of Hong Kong
    15.764 The Theory of Operations Management (Spring 2025)
    Teaching Assistant, Evaluation: 6.5/7.0
    Enrollment: 22 (primarily MIT ORC PhD students)
    Invited Talks
    • January, 2025: Experimental Design in Operations. Rotman Young Scholar Seminar, Toronto, Canada.
    • October, 2024: Experimental Design in Operations. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2024, Seattle, WA.
    • August, 2024: Data-driven Price Optimization: From Observation Study To Experimental Design. Purdue Operations Conference, West Lafayette, IN.
    • July, 2024: Pricing Experimental Design. RMP Conference 2024, Los Angeles, CA.
    • June, 2024: Offline Pricing with Separable Demands. MSOM Conference 2024, Minneapolis, MN.
    • June, 2024: Non-stationary Experimental Design with Trends. MSOM Conference 2024, Minneapolis, MN.
    • June, 2024: Multi-armed Bandit Experimental Design. MSOM SIG 2024, Minneapolis, MN.
    • May, 2024: Multi-armed Bandit Experimental Design. American Causal Inference Conference 2024, Seattle, WA.
    • May, 2024: Multi-armed Bandit Experimental Design. POMS Annual Meeting 2024, Minneapolis, MN.
    • January, 2024: Adaptive Experimental Design: A fundamental trade-off. POMS-HK 2024, Hong Kong.
    • October, 2023: Adaptive Experimental Design: A fundamental trade-off. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023, Phoenix, AZ.
    • September, 2023: Multi-armed Bandit Experimental Design. Purdue Operations Conference, West Lafayette, IN.
    • January, 2023: Multi-armed Bandit Experimental Design. POMS-HK 2023, Hong Kong.
    • October, 2022: Context-Based Dynamic Pricing with Separable Demand Models. INFORMS Annual Meeting 2022, Indianapolis, IN.

    Awards and Honors
    • Accenture Fellowship, MIT, 2023
    • Ho-Ching and Han-Ching Fund Award, MIT, 2023
    • Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai, Shanghai Education Ministry, 2020
    • Tang Lixin Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2019
    • National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2017,2018
    • A-class Academic Excellence Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2017, 2018

    Professional Services
    • Session Chair: INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023-2025, POMS Annual Meeting 2024
    • Reviewer for Management Science, Marketing Science, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, INFOMRS Journal on Data Science, NeurIPS 2023-2025, ICLR 2024 2025, ICML 2024 2025, IJCAI 2024, KDD 2024 2025, AAAI 2025
    • Organizer, MIT Data Science Lab Seminar Series, Fall 2023 2024, Spring 2024 2025
    Misc
    • I enjoy playing ultimate frisbee and badminton. Pretend to be athletic and professional.
    • I also like playing cards, especially Texas hold'em and Guandan (a Chinese traditional card game). Pretend to be good at probability as a researcher in OR.

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