DanÌýZhang

  • MediaOne Professor
  • Professor
  • Associate Dean for Research and Academics
  • STRATEGY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND OPERATIONS
  • LEARNING AND TEACHING SOLUTIONS (LTS)
Dan Zhang
Address

Koelbel - 459

Education

Education

PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2005
Advisor: Professor William L. Cooper

ME, Manufacturing Engineering, Chongqing University, 2000
Summa cum laude

BE, Mechanical Engineering, Chongqing University, 1997
Valedictorian

Biography

Dan Zhang is associate dean for research and academics, MediaOne Professor and professor of Operations Management at the Leeds School of Business, º£½ÇÉçÇø. His work focuses on revenue management, pricing and data-driven decision making, with applications in industries ranging from hospitality to online retail and more.

He regularly shares his expertise through consulting and speaking engagements at academic and industry forums. He has contributed to the advancement of his field through leadership roles in professional associations and editorial responsibilities for leading journals.

Before joining Leeds, Zhang served on the faculty at McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management and held visiting appointments at University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, City University of Hong Kong's College of Business and Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

His contributions have been recognized with honors including the Changjiang Chaired Professorship from the Chinese Ministry of Education and a .

In addition to his academic work, Zhang is co-founder and chief scientist of Ramsi, an agentic AI platform for the hospitality industry.

Research

Research Areas of Interest

  • Revenue management and pricing
  • Approximate dynamic programming
  • Data-driven decision making ÌýÌý

Selected Publications

  • Jianghua Wu, Dan Zhang, Yan Liu. 2025. . Production and Operations Management, 34(7) 1939–1956.
  • Yan Liu and Dan Zhang. 2024. . Management Science, 70(10): 6835-6851.
  • Rui Zhang, Saied Samiedaluie, and Dan Zhang. 2022. . Operations Research, 70(5):2837-2850.
  • The NRM instances in this paper can be downloaded .
  • Thomas Vossen, Fan You, and Dan Zhang. 2022. Production and Operations Management, 31(5): 2127-2142.
  • Yan Liu, Yacheng Sun, and Dan Zhang. 2021. Operations Research, 69(6): 1823-1841.
  • Xiao Huang and Dan Zhang. 2020.
  • Production and Operations Management, 28(11): 2719-2737.
  • Yacheng Sun and Dan Zhang. 2019. Management Science, 65(8): 3889-3903.

Working Papers

  • Faheng Deng, Junyi Dong, Yanzhi Li, and Dan Zhang. 2025. Joint Dynamic Channel Management and Pricing.
  • Xiao Huang and Dan Zhang. 2025. Weather Guarantees for Experience Products.
  • Saied Samiedaluie, Dan Zhang, and Rui Zhang. 2024. Probabilistic Approximations for Network Revenue Management.
  • Jiannan Ke, Dan Zhang, and Huan Zheng. 2025. Compact Reformulations of Approximate Linear Programs for Finite-Horizon Markov Decision Processes.
  • Yan Liu, Jingmai Wang, Yulan Wang, and Dan Zhang. 2025. A Model of Coalition Reward Programs.
  • Chengyi Lyu and Dan Zhang. 2025. Customer Reward Programs for Two-Sided Markets.
  • Xiao Huang, Gloria Urrea, and Dan Zhang. 2025. The Impact of Pricing on Cancellations in the Hotel Industry.
  • Yanzhe Lei, Rui Zhang, Zhongzhong Jiang, and Dan Zhang. 2025. Joint Dynamic Optimization of Pricing and Personalized Recommendations in Online Retailing.Ìý

TeachingÌý

Zhang teaches courses in operations management, statistics and data analytics across undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs. He has designed and delivered advanced analytics courses for multiple master's degree programs and co-created an online specialization, Data Analytics for Business, offered globally through Coursera. His teaching prepares students to apply analytical methods and data-driven insights to solve complex business challenges, and he also shares expertise in operations research and dynamic programming with doctoral students.Ìý

Service

  • Chair-Elect/Chair/Board Member,Ìý, 2016–19.
  • Associate Editor,ÌýOperations Research, 2022–present.
  • Associate Editor,ÌýManufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2021–present.
  • Department Editor,ÌýRevenue Management and Pricing,ÌýProduction and Operations Management, 2019–21.
  • Associate Editor,ÌýINFORMS Journal on Computing, 2019–present.
  • Department Editor, Revenue Management and Pricing,ÌýDecision Sciences, 2017–18.
  • Senior Editor,ÌýProduction and Operations Management, 2014–18, 2022–present.

Media, Insights & News

  • . Harvard Business Review. June. Yacheng Sun, Jonathan Z. Zhang, and Dan Zhang (2022).Ìý