Dan Zhang is Associate Dean for Research and Academics, Media One Professor, and Professor of Operations Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. He works on revenue management, pricing, approximate dynamic programming, and data-driven decision making, with applications spanning hospitality, online retail, and related industries. A dedicated teacher, he received the Leeds MBA Teaching Excellence Award and has held visiting appointments at City University of Hong Kong, the University of Michigan, and Cornell University. He is also the co-founder and chief scientist of Ramsi, an agentic AI platform for the hospitality industry, and has consulted on pricing and optimization for companies in the United States, Canada, Europe, and China.
Office: Koelbel 459, 419 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309
Contact: dan.zhang@colorado.edu | (303) 492-2340
Official profile: Leeds directory page
Current Roles
Leadership and faculty appointments
- Associate Dean for Research and Academics, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder
- Media One Professor, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder
- Professor of Operations Management, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder
- Recent visiting appointments: Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, March and April 2018; Visiting Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Fall 2018; Visiting Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Fall 2024.
Highlights
Recent scholarly activity
- Forthcoming: A Model of Coalition Reward Programs, Marketing Science.
- 2025: Markovian Pricing with Price Guarantees, Production and Operations Management.
- 2024: Intra-Consumer Price Discrimination with Credit Refund Policies, Management Science.
- Working papers: Joint Dynamic Channel Management and Pricing; Weather Guarantees for Experience Products; Compact Reformulations of Approximate Linear Programs for Finite-Horizon Markov Decision Processes.
Background
Education and prior appointments
- Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2005. Advisor: Professor William L. Cooper.
- M.E., Manufacturing Engineering, Chongqing University, 2000.
- B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Chongqing University, 1997.