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Bu J, Simchi-Levi D, Wang C (2025). "Context-Based Dynamic Pricing with Separable Demand Models." Management Science
Li M, Simchi-Levi D, Tan R, Wang C, Wu M. X. (2025). "Contextual Offline Demand Learning and Pricing with Separable Models." Management Science
Hu H, Ai R, Bates S, Simchi-Levi D (2025). "Contextual Online Decision Making with Infinite-Dimensional Functional Regression." ICML
Chen H, Simchi-Levi D (2025). "Efficient Switchback Experiments with Surrogate Variables: Estimation and Experimental Design." Management Science
Ma W, Simchi-Levi D, Zhao J (2025). "The Competitive Ratio of Threshold Policies for Online Unit-density Knapsack Problems." Management Science
Simchi-Levi D, Zheng Z, Zhu F (2024). "A Simple and Optimal Policy Design with Safety against Heavy-tailed Risk for Stochastic Bandits." Management Science
Chen X, Simchi-Levi D, Zhao Z, Zhou Y (2024). "Bayesian Mechanism Design for Blockchain Transaction Fee Allocation." Operations Research
Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y, Zhao J (2024). "Blind Network Revenue Management and Bandits with Knapsacks under Limited Switches." Operations Research
Ai R, Simchi-Levi D, Zhu F (2024). "Dynamic Service Fee Pricing under Strategic Behavior: Actions as Instruments and Phase Transition." NeurIPS
Liu R. P., Mellou K, Gong EX-Y, Li B, Coffee T, Pathuri J, Simchi-Levi D, Menache I (2024). "Efficient Cloud Server Deployment Under Demand Uncertainty." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Menache I, Pathuri J, Simchi-Levi D, Linton T (2024). "How Generative AI Improves Supply Chain Management." Harvard Business Review
Hu Y, Liu L, Simchi-Levi D, Yan Z (2024). "Learning Mixed Multinomial Logits with Provable Guarantees and its Applications in Multi-product Pricing." Management Science
Simchi-Levi D, Wang C (2024). "Multi-armed Bandit Experimental Design: Online Decision-making and Adaptive Inference." Management Science
Qian J, Hu H, Simchi-Levi D (2024). "Offline Oracle-Efficient Learning for Contextual MDPs via Layerwise Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff." NeurIPS
Simchi-Levi D, Zheng Z, Zhu F (2024). "On Greedy-like Policies in Online Matching with Reusable Network Resources and Decaying Rewards." Management Science
Simchi-Levi D, Wang C (2024). "Pricing Experimental Design: Causal Effect, Expected Revenue and Tail Risk." Management Science
Chen X, Simchi-Levi D, Wang Y (2024). "Utility Fairness in Contextual Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning." Management Science
Chen X, Ma Wm Simchi-Levi D, Xin L (2023). "Assortment Planning for Recommendations at Checkout under Inventory Constraints." Mathematics of Operations Research
Mao W, Zhang K, Zhu R, Simchi-Levi D, Basar T (2023). "Model-Free Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning: Near-Optimal Regret and Applications in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Inventory Control." Management Science
Simchi-Levi D, Wang C, Zheng Z (2023). "Non-stationary Experimental Design under Linear Trends." NeurIPS
Cheung W. C., Simchi-Levi D, Zhu R (2023). "Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning: The Blessing of (More) Optimism." Management Science
Simchi-Levi D, Zheng Z, Zhu F (2023). "Offline Planning and Online Learning under Recovering Rewards." Management Science
Simchi-Levi D, Sun R, Wang X (2023). "Online Matching with Bayesian Rewards." Operations Research
Zhu F, Zheng Z, Simchi-Levi D (2023). "Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits: Optimal Trade-off among Optimality, Consistency, and Tail Risk." NeurIPS 2023 Spotlight (top 3%)
Ledvina K, Qin H, Simchi-Levi D, Wei Y (2022). "A New Approach for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand: Combining Route Assignment with Process Flexibility."
Simchi-Levi D, Zheng Z, Zhu F (2022). "A Simple and Optimal Policy Design with Safety against Heavy-tailed Risk for Multi-armed Bandits." NeurIPS 2022
Gong X, Simchi-Levi D (2022). "Bandits atop Reinforcement Learning: Tackling Online Inventory Models with Cyclic Demands." Management Science
Simchi-Levi D, Sun R, Wu M, Xiao, Zhu R (2022). "Calibrating Sales Forecast in a Pandemic Using Competitive Online Non-Parametric Regression." Management Science
Ma W, Simchi-Levi D (2022). "Constructing Demand Curves from a Single Observation of Bundle Sales." WINE 2022
Bu J, Simchi-Levi D, Wang C (2022). "Context-Based Dynamic Pricing with Partially Linear Demand Model." NeurIPS 2022
Bojinov I, Simchi-Levi D, Zhao J (2022). "Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments."
Management Science
Li H, Simchi-Levi D, Wu M, Zhu W (2022). "Estimating and Exploiting the Impact of Photo Layout: A Structural Approach." Management Science
Hu Y, Simchi-Levi D, Yan Z (2022). "Learning Mixed Multinomial Logits with Provable Guarantees" NeurIPS 2022
Foster D, Krishnamurthy A, Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y (2022). "Offline Reinforcement Learning: Fundamental Barriers for Value Function Approximation." COLT 2022
Bu J, Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y (2022). "Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law." Management Science, vol. 68, no. 12
Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y (2022). "Phase Transitions in Bandits with Switching Constraints." Management Science
Talwai P, Shameli A, Simchi-Levi D (2022). "Sobolev Norm Learning Rates for Conditional Mean Embeddings." AISTAT 2022
Qin H, Simchi-Levi D, Ferer R, Mays J, Merriam K, Forrester M, Hamrick A (2022). "Trading Safety Stock for Service Response Time in Inventory Positioning." Production and Operations Management (Special Issue in celebration of POMs 30 years)
Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y (2021). "Bypassing the Monster: A Faster and Simpler Optimal Algorithm for Contextual Bandits under Realizability." Mathematics of Operations Research
Qin H, Simchi-Levi D, Wang L (2021). "Data-Driven Approximation Schemes for Joint Pricing and Inventory Control Models." Management Science
Chen L, Ma W, Natarajan K, Simchi-Levi D, Yan Z (2021). "Distributionally Robust Linear and Discrete Optimization with Marginals." Operations Research
Simchi-Levi D, Zheng Z, Zhu F (2021). "Dynamic Planning and Learning under Recovering Rewards." ICML 2021
Chen B, Simchi-Levi D, Wang Y, Zhou Y (2021). "Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with Fixed Ordering Cost and Incomplete Demand Information." Management Science
Foster D, Rakhlin A, Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y (2021). "Instance-Dependent Complexity of Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning: A Disagreement-Based Perspective." COLT 2021
Cheung W. C., Ma W, Simchi-Levi D, Wang X (2021). "Inventory Balancing with Online Learning." Management Science
Mao W, Zhang K, Zhu R, Simchi-Levi D, Basar T (2021). "Is Model-Free Learning Nearly Optimal for Non-Stationary RL?" ICML 2021
Bastani H, Simchi-Levi D, Zhu R (2021). "Meta Dynamic Pricing: Transfer Learning Across Experiments." Management Science—Special Issue on Data-Driven Prescriptive Analytics
Bu J, Simchi-Levi D, Wang L (2021). "Offline Pricing and Demand Learning with Censored Data." Management Science
Gong X, Goyal VIyengar G, Simchi-Levi D, Udwani R, Wang S (2021). "On-line Assortment Optimization with Reusable Resources." Management Science
Simchi-Levi D, Sun R, Zhang H (2021). "Online Learning and Optimization for Revenue Management Problems with Add-on Discounts." Management Science
Bu J, Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y (2021). "Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law." Management Science
Chen X, Simchi-Levi D, Wang Y (2021). "Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Personalized Pricing with Demand Learning." Management Science
Ma W, Simchi-Levi D (2021). "Reaping the Benefits of Bundling under High Production Costs." Proceedings of the 24nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, AISTATS
Bu J, Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y (2020). "Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law." ICML 2020
Hopp W., Simchi-Levi D (2020). "Management Science: The Legacy of the Past and Challenge of the Future." Management Science
Cheung W. C., Simchi-Levi D, Zhu R (2020). "Hedging the Drift: Learning to Optimize under Non-Stationarity." Management Science—Special Issue on Data-Driven Prescriptive Analytics
Nambiar M, Simchi-Levi D, Wang H (2020). "Dynamic Inventory Allocation with Demand Learning for Seasonal Goods." Production and Operations Management, Special Issue to Honor Professor Hau Lee, Editor Christopher S. Tang
Wang Y, Chen B, Simchi-Levi D (2020). "Multi-Modal Dynamic Pricing." Management Science
Jin R, Simchi-Levi D, Wang L, Wang X, Yang S (2020). "Shrinking the Upper Confidence Bound: A Dynamic Product Selection Problem for Urban Warehouses." Management Science
Chen X, Owen Z, Pixton C, Simchi-Levi D (2020). "A Statistical Learning Approach to Personalization in Revenue Management." Management Science
Cheung W. C., Simchi-Levi D, Zhu R (2020). "Reinforcement Learning for Non-Stationary Markov Decision Processes: The Blessing of (More) Optimism." ICML 2020
Ma W, Simchi-Levi D, Zhao J (2020). "Dynamic Pricing (and Assortment) under a Static Calendar." Management Science
Bu J, Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y (2020). "Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law." ICML 2020
Simchi-Levi D, Xu Y (2019). "Phase Transitions and Cyclic Phenomena in Bandits with Switching Constraints." NeurIPS 2019
Ma W, Simchi-Levi D (2019). "Algorithms for Online Matching, Assortment, and Pricing with Tight Weight-Dependent Competitive Ratios." Operations Research
Cheung W. C., Simchi-Levi D, Zhu R (2019). "Learning to Optimize under Non-Stationarity." AISTATS 2019
Cheung W. C., Simchi-Levi D (2019). "Sampling-based Approximation Schemes for Capacitated Stochastic Inventory Control Models." Mathematics of Operations Research
Nambiar M Simchi-Levi D, Wang H (2019). "Dynamic Learning and Pricing with Model Misspecification." Management Science
Simchi-Levi D, Trichakis N, Zhang P Y (2019). "Designing Response Supply Chain against Bioattacks." Operations Research
Ferreira J.K, Simchi-Levi D, Wang H (2018). "Online Network Revenue Management using Thompson Sampling." Operations Research, vol. 66, no. 6
Allen-Zhu Z, Simchi-Levi D, Wang (2018). "The Lingering of Gradients: How to Reuse Gradients Over Time." NeurIPS 2018
Simchi-Levi D, Wang H, Wei Y (2018). "Increasing Supply Chain Robustness Through Process Flexibility and Inventory." Production and Operations Management, vol. 27, no. 8
Gao S Yini, Simchi-Levi D, Teo C-P, Yan Z (2018). "Disruption Risk Mitigation in Supply Chains – The Risk Exposure Index Revisited." Operations Research
Akkas A, Gaur V, Simchi-Levi D (2018). "Drivers of Product Expiration in Consumer-Packaged Goods Retailing." Management Science
Cheung W. C., Simchi-Levi D, Wang H (2017). "Dynamic Pricing and Demand Learning with Limited Price Experimentation." Operations Research, vol. 66, no. 6
Zhao Y, Fang X, Simchi-Levi D (2017). "Uplift Modeling with Multiple Treatments and General Response Types." SIAM Data Mining 2017
Ferreira J.K, Lee A.BH, Simchi-Levi D (2016). "Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, vol. 18, no. 1
Bidkhori H, Simchi-Levi D, Wei Y (2016). "Analyzing Process Flexibility: A Distribution-free Approach with Partial Expectations." Operations Research Letters, vol. 4, no. 3
Simchi-Levi D, Schmidt W, Wei Y, Zhang P Y, Combs K, Ge Y, Gusikhin O, Sanders M, Zhang D (2015). "Identifying Risks and Mitigating Disruptions in the Automotive Supply Chain." Interfaces, vol. 4, no. 5
Johnson K, Simchi-Levi D, Sun P (2014). "Analyzing Scrip Systems." Operations Research, vol. 62, no. 3
Simchi-Levi D, Schmidt W, Wei Y (2014). "From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply Chain Disruptions." Harvard Business Review
Simchi-Levi D, Wei Y (2014). "Worst-case Analysis of Process Flexibility Designs." Operations Research, vol. 63, no. 1
Halman N, Klabjan D, Li C-L, Orlin J, Simchi-Levi D (2014). "Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes for Stochastic Dynamic Programs." SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, vol. 28, no. 4
Klabjan D, Simchi-Levi D, Song M (2013). "Robust Stochastic Lot-Sizing by Means of Histograms." Production and Operations Management, vol. 22
Chick S.E., Mamani H., Simchi-Levi D (2013). "A Game Theoretic Model of International Influenza Vaccination Coordination." Management Science, vol. 52
V de Albeniz M, Simchi-Levi D (2013). "Supplier-Buyer Negotiation Games: Equilibrium Conditions and Supply Chain Efficiency." Production and Operations Management, vol. 22
Simchi-Levi D, Wei Y (2012). "Understanding the Performance of the Long Chain and Sparse Designs in Process Flexibility." Operations Research, vol. 60
Halman Norlin J, Simchi-Levi D (2012). "Approximating the Nonlinear Newsvendor and Single-Item Stochastic Lot-sizing Problems When Data Is Given by an Oracle." Operations Research, vol. 60
Huang K, Simchi-Levi D, Song M (2011). "Optimal Market-Making with Risk Aversion." Operations Research
Pei P, Simchi-Levi D, Tunca T.I (2011). "Sourcing Flexibility, Spot Trading and Procurement Contract Structure." Operations Research, vol. 59
Lu Y, Ozdaglar A, Simchi-Levi D (2010). "Stock Repurchase with an Adaptive Reservation Price: A Study of the Greedy Policy." Operations Research Letters, vol. 29
Halman N, Klabjan D, Mostagir M, Orlin J, Simchi-Levi D. (2009) "A Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for Single-item Stochastic Lot-sizing Problems with Discrete Demand." Mathematics of Operations Research, vol. 34
V de Albeniz M, Simchi-Levi D (2009). "Competition in the Supply Option Market." Operations Research, vol. 57
Chick S.E., Mamani H., Simchi-Levi D (2008). "Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination." Operations Research, vol. 56
Chen X, Sim M,Simchi-Levi D, Sun P (2007). "Risk Aversion in Inventory Management." Operations Research, vol 55
Magnanti TL, Shen Z-JMax, Shu J, Simchi-Levi D, Teo C-P (2006). "Inventory Placement in Acyclic Supply Chain Networks." Operations Research Letters, vol. 36
Chen X, Simchi-Levi D (2006). "Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost: The Continuous Review Model." Operations Research Letters, vol. 36
Zhao Y, Simchi-Levi D (2006). "Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Assemble-to-Order Systems with Stochastic Sequential Lead Times." Operations Research, vol. 54
Chen X, Simchi-Levi D (2004). "Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost: The Infinite Horizon Case." Mathematics of Operations Research, vol. 29
Chen X, Simchi-Levi D (2004). "Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost: The Finite Horizon Case." Operations Research, vol. 52
Chen Y.F., Drezner Z., Ryan J.K, Simchi-Levi D (2000). "Quantifying the Bullwhip Effect in a Simple Supply Chain: The Impact of Forecasting, Lead Times and Information." Management Science, vol. 46
Chen Y.F., Ryan J.K, Simchi-Levi D (2000). "The Impact of Exponential Smoothing Forecasts on the Bullwhip Effect." Naval Research Logistics, vol. 47
Bramel J., Simchi-Levi D (1997). "On the Effectiveness of Set Covering Formulations for the Vehicle Routing Problem." Operations Research, vol. 45
Bramel J., Simchi-Levi D (1996). "Probabilistic Analysis and Practical Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows." Operations Research, vol. 44
Bertsimas D., Simchi-Levi D (1996). "The New Generation of Vehicle Routing Research: Robust Algorithms Addressing Uncertainty." Operations Research, vol. 44
Bramel J., Simchi-Levi D (1995). "A Location Based Heuristic for General Routing Problems." Operations Research, vol. 43
