My research lies at the intersection of operations research, operations management, and machine learning. I develop methods for sequential decision-making under uncertainty, with applications in last-mile delivery, entrepreneurial operations, and service systems.
Working paper
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@unpublished{li_sprint_or_walk,title={Sprint or Walk?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},}
Work in progress
Same-day Delivery with Pickup Stations
Geoffrey Chua, Yuanyuan Li, and Claudia Archetti
Work in progress , Work in progress
2025
Emerging Optimization Problems for Distribution in Same-day Delivery
@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},}
2024
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},}
2020
Machine Learning and Optimization for Production Rescheduling in Industry 4.0
Yuanyuan Li, Stefano Carabelli, Edoardo Fadda, and 3 more authors
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2020
@article{li2020production,title={Machine Learning and Optimization for Production Rescheduling in Industry 4.0},author={Li, Yuanyuan and Carabelli, Stefano and Fadda, Edoardo and Manerba, Daniele and Tadei, Roberto and Terzo, Olivier},journal={The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology},volume={110},pages={2445--2463},year={2020},doi={10.1007/s00170-020-05850-5},}
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Online Single-Machine Scheduling
Yuanyuan Li, Edoardo Fadda, Daniele Manerba, and 2 more authors
In Proceedings of the 2020 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, 2020
@inproceedings{li2020single_machine,title={Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Online Single-Machine Scheduling},author={Li, Yuanyuan and Fadda, Edoardo and Manerba, Daniele and Tadei, Roberto and Terzo, Olivier},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2020 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems},series={Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems},volume={21},pages={277--283},year={2020},doi={10.15439/2020F100},}
2019
Sustainable and De-Stressed International Supply-Chains Through the SYNCHRO-NET Approach
Riccardo Giusti, Chiara Iorfida, Yuanyuan Li, and 5 more authors
@article{giusti2019synchro_net,title={Sustainable and De-Stressed International Supply-Chains Through the {SYNCHRO-NET} Approach},author={Giusti, Riccardo and Iorfida, Chiara and Li, Yuanyuan and Manerba, Daniele and Musso, Stefano and Perboli, Guido and Tadei, Roberto and Yuan, Shuai},journal={Sustainability},volume={11},number={4},pages={1083},year={2019},doi={10.3390/su11041083},}