Mengzhenyu (Zhenyu) Zhang is currently an assistant professor in Operations & Technology at the UCL School of Management. Zhenyu graduated from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, where she obtained her PhD in Technology and Operations.

Research

Her research focuses on revenue management and information design, examining how firms can use data, pricing, and information to improve decision-making under uncertainty. Combining methods from operations research and information economics, her work addresses topics including data-driven pricing, online learning, social learning, strategic information provision, and capacity investment and allocation.

1. Mengzhenyu Zhang, Hyun-Soo Ahn, Joline Uichanco, “Data-driven pricing for a new product”, Operations Research 70(2):847-866, 2022.

2. Hyun-Soo Ahn, Eren Cetinkaya, Izak Duenyas, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “Benefits of collaboration in capacity investment and allocation”, Production and Operations Management 33(1), 128-145, 2024. 

3. Hyun-Soo Ahn, Christopher Ryan, Joline Uichanco, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “Certainty-equivalent pricing with dependent demand and limited price-changing opportunities”, accepted at Mathematics of Operations Research. 

4. Mengzhenyu Zhang, Christopher Ryan, Wei Sun, Shivaram Subramanian, Markus Ettl, “Attribute-based pricing: A nested logit approach”, Major revision at Informs Journal on Computing. 

5. Hyun-Soo Ahn, Christopher Ryan, Joline Uichanco, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “Valuing influence with social learning”, accepted at Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

6. Hyun-Soo Ahn, Mengzhenyu Zhang, Zijin Zhang, “Online decisions with (biased) offline data”, accepted at Operations Research. 

7. Zi Ling, Christopher Ryan, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “On the interplay between pricing and information policies in monopoly selling”, submitted.

8. Mengzhenyu Zhang, Fan Zhou, “How much information should be revealed on food freshness?”, Major revision at Marketing Science. 

9. Izak Duenyas, Ozge Sahin, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “Advance selling under dynamic uncertainty and time-dependent penalty”, submitted. 

10. Yiming Liu, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “A Knapsack Structure in Dynamic Information Design”. submitted.