Ruoran Chen is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management (ISOM), School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University. Dr. Chen received a B.S. degree in 2011 and a Ph.D. degree in 2018, both from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. From January to July 2015, Dr. Chen visited Purdue University as a Visiting Scholar. From 2018 to 2021, Dr. Chen worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University.

Dr. Chen's research interests include supply management and supply chain resilience, service system control, retail management, and data-centric operations. Research findings have been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, and Reliability Engineering & System Safety, as well as at international conferences including ICLR.

Dr. Chen currently teaches "Applied Statistics", and "Artificial Intelligence" (undergraduate courses in the School of Economics and Management), as well as "Quantitative Analysis: Models and Methods" (a graduate-level course for professional master's students in the School of Economics and Management).

[SELECTED PUBLICATIONS]

1.    Zhao, Y., Chen, R., Zhang, Y., & Huang, S. (2026). How LLMs Reshape Equilibrium: A Study of Human-AI Competition in Auctions. ICLR 2026 Workshop on AI for Mechanism Design and Strategic Decision Making (ICLR 2026)

2.    Chen, D., Chen, R., Wang, R., & Wang, X. (2025). Optimal Control of Service Systems with Heterogeneous Servers and Priority Customers. Management Science, 71(8): 6319-7222.

3.    Chen, R., Deng, T., Huang, S., & Qin, R. (2015). Optimal crude oil procurement under fluctuating price in an oil refinery. European Journal of Operational Research, 245(2): 438–445.

4.    Chen, R., & Huang, S. (2017). Asymmetric wheat auctions with resale and partially divisible bidding objects. Operations Research Letters, 45(6): 610–615.

5.    Chi, Z., Chen, R., Huang, S., Li, Y., Zhou, B., & Zhang, W. (2020). Multi-state system modeling and reliability assessment for groups of high-speed train wheels. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 202.

6.    Li, S., Chen, R., Yang, L., Huang, D., & Huang, S. (2020). Predictive modeling of consumer color preference: Using retail data and merchandise images. Journal of Forecasting, 39(8): 1-19.