Bio: Ruihao Zhu is an assistant professor of operations, technology, and information management at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research develops novel reinforcement learning algorithms to inform decision-making in digital economy, pricing, and supply chain & logistics. He also enjoys tackling practically relevant problems and has been working closely with different companies to test and implement his methods.
Ruihao’s work has received multiple recognitions, including second place in the POMS Chelliah Sriskandarajah Early Career Research Accomplishments Award and an honorable mention in the INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award. He currently serves as an associate editor for the INFORMS Journal on Data Science and as an area chair for the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
Ruihao received his Ph.D. degree from MIT (2021) and his bachelor degrees from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2015) and the University of Michigan (2015).