Quan Zhou

Hi! I’m Quan, a 5th-year Ph.D. student in Operations Management at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, under the supervision of Prof. Mehmet Gumus and Prof. Sentao Miao. I received my M.Eng from Memorial University of Newfoundland and my B.S. in Ocean Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Before joining the Ph.D. program at McGill, I worked as an engineer and programmer for Memorial University and a startup for six years.

I am passionate about addressing business operational challenges through optimization, algorithm design, and other operations research tools. My current research focuses on revenue management and supply chain management, driven by real-world problems in e-commerce and platform services.

Working papers

• with Mehmet Gumus, Sentao Miao, “Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Personalized Delivery and Fulfillment Optimisation,” (2024) Reject & Resubmit at Operations Research, (SSRN)

• with Mehmet Gumus, Sentao Miao, “E-commerce Order Fulfillment Problem with Limited Time Window.” (2023) 2nd round major revisioin at Operations Research. (SSRN)

Teaching

• Instructor, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management
  • Operations Management, Summer 2024: 4.6 / 5
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management
  • Decision Analytics and Modelling for Operations, master, Winter 2023
  • Operations Management, undergraduate, Fall 2023
  • Management Statistics, MBA, Fall 2023
  • Operations Management, master, Summer 2023
  • Data Decision and Models, master, Summer 2023
  • Operations Management, MBA, Fall 2022

Nonacademic professional activities

• Co-founder, Seastel Marine System (Canada) Inc., 2017-2020
• Research and Project Engineer, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2014-2017