Associate Professor Zhang Meilin

Selected Publications

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

• Satisficing Approach to On-Demand Ride Matching, with Dongling Rong, Xinyu Sun, Shuangchi He, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2025, 37(2):413-427. (UTD24, ABS4*, SCI)
• Robust Repositioning for Vehicle Sharing, with Long He, Zhenyu Hu, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020, 22(2):241-256. (UTD24, ABS4*, SCI)
• Data-driven patient scheduling in emergency departments: A hybrid robust-stochastic approach, with Shuangchi He, Melvyn Sim, Management Science, 2019, 65(9):4123-4140. (UTD24, ABS4*, SCI)
• Adaptive Distributionally Robust Optimization, with Dimitris Bertsimas and Melvyn Sim, Management Science, 2019, 65(2):604-618. (UTD24, ABS4*, SCI)
• A Robust Optimization Model for Managing Elective Admission in a Public Hospital, with Fanwen Meng, Qi Jin, James Ang, Singfat Chu, Melvyn Sim, Operations Research, 2015, 63(6):1452-1467. (UTD24, ABS4*, SCI)
• Improvement in Management System of Color Ring Back Tone Service, in Chinese, with Wang Chun, Liao Jianxin, Computer Systems & Applications, 2009, 18(3):23-26.

Journal Manuscripts under Review and Revision

• Verifiability-Aware Robust Planning for Skill-Based LLM Agents: When to Act, When to Seek Evidence, with Tianjue Lin, under review at Management Science, 2026. (UTD24, ABS4*)
• Robust Joint Stocking-Fulfillment Decisions for Omnichannel Retail: A Data-Driven Approach under Demand Uncertainty, with Ya Liu et al., minor revision at IISE Transactions, 2026. (ABS4)
• Ride-Pooling under Pick-up Time Uncertainty: A Hybrid Robust-Stochastic Optimization Approach for Mobility-on-Demand Systems, with Li Xiao et al., major revision (2nd round) at European Journal of Operational Research, 2026. (ABS4*)
• A Data-Driven Order Dispatch Method for Time-Constrained On-Demand Food Delivery, with Dongling Rong, Xinyu Sun et al., under review at Decision Sciences, 2026. (ABS4*)
• Extending TOE for AI Adoption: Technology Ecosystem Readiness and the Intention-Readiness Decoupling in B2B Marketing, with Ren et al., major revision at Data Science and Management, 2026.

Working Papers

• Lessons for Implementing Marketing AI in a Business-to-Business Context, with Willie Low, Rohit Nishant.
• An Integrated Order Dispatch Approach for Dynamic Ride Pooling and Hailing Services.
• A Practical Approach for On-Demand Ride-Matching with Order Cancellation.

Book Chapters

• Covid-19 New Normal. World Scientific ISBN: 978-981-125-515-1. Chapter 4 ”Transformation and Reshaping of Industrial Supply Chains in the Post-Pandemic Era”(pp 59-72)

Analytics Software Product and Tools

• Cloud Analytics for Teaching and Research: integrated data mining, optimization, simulation toolkit Jan - June. 2020
  • A complete tutorial guide for learning predictive and prescriptive analytics
  • All embedded with full documented Jupyter Notebooks
  • Rich applications and practice examples
  • Optimization include the integrated use of Docplex and Robust optimization in Python GitHub
• ROC Solver: distributionally robust optimzation in C++, May. 2016
  • Coverage of the practical distributionally robust linear optimization and support a wide range of ambiguity set
  • Providing more than 100 extensible APIs with detailed API documentation.
  • Complemented several application test cases: Appointment Scheduling, Inventory Control, Optimizing Hospital Elective Admission and etc.
  • 20000 lines open source C++ code for public use available on my GitHub
• Discrete Event Simulation Package for Healthcare Operations, Nov. 2016
  • modeling various process scenarios in hospital processes with open API for optimization strategy
  • Open source C++ code for public use available on my GitHub

Invited Seminar Presentations

• Xi’an Jiaotong University, China                    Dec. 2019
• University of New South Wales, Australia       Mar. 2018
• Nanyang Business School, NTU, Singapore   Dec. 2017
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China            Dec. 2016
• City University of Hong Kong, China HK         July. 2016

Conference Presentations

• POMS China International Meeting (Hangzhou, China)                                                           2023
• APORS (Asia-Pacific Operational Research Society) 2022, Philippines                                    2022
• INFORMS Annual Meeting                                                                                                    2013- 2015
• POMS-HK                                                                                                                            2016
• Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE)                         Annual 2015