Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Northwestern University, 2020
M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Northwestern University, 2015
B.S. in Mathematics, Peking University, China, 2014

Lun Yu is the Assistant Professor at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University in 2020. In 2021, he won the Nemhausser’s Best Student Dissertation Prize. Lun’s research interests include service operations, queueing, supply chain management, optimal control, and machine learning.

Published Papers

 1. L. Yu, S. Iravani, O. Perry (2021). A Fluid-Diffusion Hybrid Limit for Priority Systems with Fast and Slow Customers. Operations Research

2. L. Yu, O. Perry (2022). Many-Server Heavy-Traffic Limits for Queueing Systems with Perfectly Correlated Service and Patience Times. Mathematics of Operations Research

Papers Under Revision/Review

3. L. Yu, Z. Zheng, Z. Shen (2022+). An Online Queueing Design for Service Systems with Impatient Customers. Under Major Revision at Operations Research

4. L. Yu, S. Iravani, O. Perry (2022+). Optimal Clearing of Backlogs in Multi-Class Systems. Submitted to Management Science