Xun Zhang - Research & Teaching

Completed papers

*stands for the first or corresponding author

X. Zhang*, W. B. Haskell, and Z. Ye. A Unifying Framework for Variance Reduction Algorithms for Finding Zeroes of Monotone Operators. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 23 (60), 1-44. [link]
- National Semiconductor Gold Medal, Singapore, 2021. "Awarded to the higher degree graduate in the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management who has published the best research paper that has been accepted/published by an international journal" [link]
W. Huang, X.Zhang. Randomized smoothing variance reduction method for large-scale non-smooth convex optimization. Operations Research Forum, 2(2), 26 [link]
X. Zhang*, Z. Ye, and W. B. Haskell. Error Propagation in Asymptotic Analysis for Data-Driven Inventory Policies. minor revision at Operations Research [link].
X. Jiang, Z. Ye, T. Loon Ching, and X. Zhang*. "Risk Aversion in a Data-Driven Inventory Problem". major revision at Production and Operations Management
X. Zhang*, Z.Ye, and Yu. Wang. Data-driven Inventory Policies with Dependent Demands. revised and resubmit at Operations Research.
X.Jiang, X.Hu, X.Zhang and Z.Ye. ''blinded for anonymity". review at Operations Research.
H. Wang, X. Zhang, S. Ng, and S. Wang. "A Data-Driven Bayesian Nonparametric Approach for Black-Box Optimization". review at Informs Journal on Computing [arxiv]

An End-to-end Model for Share-of-choice Product Line Design Problem. with M. Liu, H. Gong, and C. Liu [arxiv], in revision
Online resource allocation with learning. with Teo, C.P., C. Liu, and L. Wu, in preparation for submission
Robust pricing with a single-price point. with Teo, C.P. and M. Liu, in preparation for submission
Data-driven inventory policy via deep neural network. with G.H. Shen and X. Hu, in preparation for submission

I am the tutor of the following courses at NUS

IE4210 – Operations Research II, Spring 2018, 2019, 2020, Lecturer: Ng Kien Ming
IE3101– Statistics for Engineering Application, Fall 2018, 2019, 2020, Lecturer: Ng Szu Hui and Napat Rujeerapaiboon

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