Yuanyuan Li

Montréal, Québec, Canada

I am a postdoctoral researcher at HEC Montréal and GERAD, advised by Jean-François Cordeau, Yossiri Adulyasak, and Emma Frejinger. I received my PhD in Operations Research and Management from ESSEC Business School, where I was advised by Claudia Archetti, Ivana Ljubić, and Felix Papier.

Research

My research develops optimization and learning methods for sequential decision-making under uncertainty. I study settings in which firms must account for customer behavior, operational constraints, and large state-action spaces, with current applications in same-day delivery, entrepreneurial operations, and experiential services.

My work draws on operations research, reinforcement learning, and data-driven decision-making. Please see my research page for publications and working papers.

selected publications

Emerging Optimization Problems for Distribution in Same-day Delivery

Yuanyuan Li, Claudia Archetti, and Ivana Ljubić

Computers & Operations Research, 2025

DOI Bib HTML

@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

Yuanyuan Li, Claudia Archetti, and Ivana Ljubić

Transportation Science, 2024

DOI arXiv Bib HTML

@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

Yuanyuan Li, Riccardo Mogre, and Felix Papier

Working paper , Working paper

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@unpublished{li_sprint_or_walk,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},
}