Contact Information
Associate Professor
Data Sciences and Operations
Marshall School of Business
Phone: (213) 740-7598
Email: leonyzhu@usc.edu
Education
PhD, MA, University of Florida
BA, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Links
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
Background
Leon Yang Zhu (Chu) is an operations management scholar whose research interests include contract and market mechanism design, game theory, and applied optimization. Professor Zhu's papers have been published in the American Economic Review, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Management Science, Operations Research, and Rand Journal of Economics.
Selected Publications
Zhu, L. (2016) "Quality Provision with Heterogeneous Consumer Reservation Utilities", Production and Operations Management, 5, 883-901, 25.
Chu, L. Y., and Wang, Y. (2014) "Bundled Procurement for Technology Acquisition and Future Gain," Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
Chu, L. Y., and Sappington, D. E. (2014) "Contracting with Private Knowledge of Production Capacity," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.
Chu, L. Y., and Sappington, D. E. M. (2013) "Motivating Energy Suppliers to Promote Energy Conservation," Journal of Regulatory Economics, 43 (3), 229-247.
Chu, L. Y., and Lai, G. (2013) "Salesforce Contracting under Demand Censorship," Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 15 (2), 320-334.
Bassamboo, A., Chu, L. Y., and Randhawa, R. S. (2013) "Designing Flexible Systems Using a New Notion of Supermodularity," Operations Research Letters, 41 (1), 107-111.
Chu, L. Y., and Sappington, D. E. M. (2012) "Designing Optimal Gain Sharing Plans to Promote Energy Conservation," Journal of Regulatory Economics, 42 (2), 115-134.
Chu, L. Y., and Zhang, H. (2011) "Optimal Pre-order Strategy with Endogenous Information Control," Management Science, 57 (6), 1055-1077.
Chu, L. Y., and Sappington, D. E. M. (2010) "Contracting with Private Knowledge of Signal Quality," Rand Journal of Economics, 41 (2), 244-269.
Chu, L. Y., and Shen, Z. M. (2010) "A Power-of-two Ordering Policy for One-Warehouse Multi-Retailer Systems," Operations Research, 58 (2), 492-502.
Honors and Awards
2012-2014, Management Science Distinguished Service Award
2011-2013, M&SOM Meritorious Service Award
2011, Management Science Meritorious Service Award