About me

Yifan Shen is a PhD student in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, specializing in transportation marketplace design. My research focuses on pricing and matching policies for shared rides, leveraging theoretical modeling and computational experiments to optimize efficiency and profitability in transportation systems. My research is advised by Chiwei Yan and Julia Yan.

Education

• Ph.D in Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2026 (expected), University of Washington, Seattle.
• M.Eng in Logistics Engineering, 2022, Sino-US Global Logistics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• B.Eng in Transportation Engineering, 2019, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Civil Engineering,Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Working Papers

• Yan, C., Yan, J. and Shen, Y., Pricing Shared Rides, under major revision. [Code&Data].

Publications

Please refer to my Google Scholar.