Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (2015-2021)

B.A. in Mathematics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (2011-2015)

Zicheng Wang is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He received his Ph.D in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 2021. He was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota Medical School during 2021-2023. His research interests include applied probability and its application in mathematical modeling of cancer and operations management.

1. Saif Benjaafar, Zicheng Wang, and Xiaotang Yang. The Impact of Automation on Workers when Workers Are Strategic: The Case of Ride-Hailing. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2025)

2. Saif Benjaafar, Zicheng Wang, and Xiaotang Yang. Human in the Loop Automation: Ride-Hailing with Remote (Tele-) Drivers. Management Science 71.3 (2025): 2527-2543.

3. Kevin Leder, Ruping Sun, Zicheng Wang, and Xuanming Zhang. Parameter Estimation from Single Patient, Single Time-Point Sequencing Data of Recurrent Tumors. Journal of Mathematical Biology 89.5 (2024): 51

4. Zicheng Wang, Yunong Xia, Lauren Mills, Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos, Nicole Maeser, Jason Sheltzer, and Ruping Sun. Evolving Copy Number Gains Promote Tumor Expansion and Bolster Mutational Diversification. Nature Communications 15.1 (2024): 2025

5. Pranav Hanagal, Kevin Leder, and Zicheng Wang. Large Deviations of Cancer Recurrence Timing. Stochastic Processes and their Applications 147 (2022): 1-50

6. Kevin Leder, Xin Liu, and Zicheng Wang. Splitting Algorithms for Rare Events of Semimartingale Reflecting Brownian Motions. Stochastic Systems 11.4 (2021): 333-367