Industry and Entrepreneurial Engagement
Current and Recent Work
- Co-founder and chief scientist, Ramsi (previously PricingService.ai), since 2023.
- Panelist, Roundtable Discussion on Dynamic Pricing, Competition and Markets Authority, Government of the United Kingdom, January 2025.
- Pricing and optimization work with Alibaba, Didi Chuxing, and other industry partners.
Selected Industry Projects
- Ramsi: funded by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade and the National Science Foundation; winner of the 2023 E20X People's Choice Award at HITEC Toronto; third place in the 2024 CU Boulder New Venture Challenge; finalist in the 2024 New Venture Challenge Deep Tech Competition; named a 2024 Top Revenue Management Solutions Provider by Travel and Hospitality Tech Outlook.
- Alibaba, Hangzhou, China. E-commerce pricing, 2021-2022.
- Stratom, Boulder, Colorado. Large-scale optimization, 2020.
- Didi Chuxing, Beijing, China. Pricing and revenue management strategy, 2019.
- Tech Valley Inc., Xiamen, China. Advisory board member, 2015-2017.
- The Walt Disney Company, Orlando, Florida. Resort hotel pricing, 2012.
- Lufthansa, Frankfurt, Germany. Network revenue management optimization, 2010.
- Transat A.T. Inc., Montreal, Canada. Current practice and trends in revenue management, 2008.
- PROS Revenue Management, Houston, Texas. Scientist, 2006-2007.
- Chang'an Automobile Corporation, Chongqing, China. Analyst, 1997-2000.
Selected Invited Talks
Recent Invited Talks
- Questrom School of Business, Boston University, November 2025.
- College of Business, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, November 2025.
- ISYE, University of Minnesota, September 2025.
- College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, May 2025.
- School of Business, George Washington University, February 2025.
- Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, October 2024.
- Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, May 2024.
- John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, September 2023.
- Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, April 2023.
Selected Earlier Talks
- Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, February 2022.
- School of Business, UC Riverside, January 2022.
- Smith School of Business, Queen's University, January 2022.
- School of Management, University of Texas Dallas, November 2021.
- Ivey Business School, Western University, October 2021.
- Carroll School of Management, Boston College, April 2021.
- Research Group, Kuaishou, Beijing, China, November 2019.
- Revenue Management Group, Spring Airlines, Shanghai, China, September 2019.
- Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder, January 2019.
- Mostly OM Workshop, Tsinghua University, June 2018.
- Leeds Business Insight Event, Chicago, Illinois, May 3, 2018.
- Statistics, Optimization and Machine Learning Seminar, University of Colorado Boulder, February 2018.
- Smeal College of Business, Penn State University, January 2018.
- Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, April 2017.
- Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, March 2017.
- Rocky Mountain INFORMS Chapter Seminar Series, September 2014.
- Choice-based Revenue Management Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2012.
- SOCCER 2010, University of Heidelberg, Germany, invited tutorial lecture on dynamic pricing in revenue management, July 2010.
- Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, March 2005.
- NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, February 2005.
Conference Presentations
The conference presentation list has not been fully maintained in recent years. Selected conference activity appears throughout the research and outreach sections of the site.