I am a postdoctoral researcher at HEC Montréal and GERAD, where I work with Jean-François Cordeau, Yossiri Adulyasak, and Emma Frejinger. I received my PhD in Operations Research and Operations Management from ESSEC Business School under the supervision of Claudia Archetti, Ivana Ljubić, and Felix Papier.
Research
My research studies how firms can design operational policies under uncertainty while accounting for customer behavior and operational constraints. I develop optimization- and learning-based methods for these settings, with recent applications to same-day delivery, entrepreneurial operations, and experiential services.
@article{li2025emerging,title={Emerging Optimization Problems for Distribution in Same-day Delivery},author={Li, Yuanyuan and Archetti, Claudia and Ljubić, Ivana},journal={Computers & Operations Research},volume={182},pages={107105},year={2025},doi={10.1016/j.cor.2025.107105},}
Reinforcement Learning Approaches for the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic and Dynamic Release Dates
@article{li2024reinforcement,title={Reinforcement Learning Approaches for the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic and Dynamic Release Dates},author={Li, Yuanyuan and Archetti, Claudia and Ljubić, Ivana},journal={Transportation Science},volume={58},number={5},pages={1143--1165},year={2024},doi={10.1287/trsc.2022.0366},}
Sprint or Walk? Managing Start-up Growth Before Facility Investments
@unpublished{li_sprint_or_walk,title={Sprint or Walk? Managing Start-up Growth Before Facility Investments},author={Li, Yuanyuan and Mogre, Riccardo and Papier, Felix},year={Working paper},}
