Fanyin Zheng

Fanyin Zheng is an Assistant Professor at Imperial College Business School, specializing in Management Science and Business Analytics. She previously held an Assistant Professor position at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on empirical operations management, business analytics, and applied econometrics, with an emphasis on decision-making in complex service systems like healthcare operations and platform markets. She earned her PhD from Harvard University, Cambridge, United States.

Her research explores how individuals and firms leverage data-driven strategies in dynamic environments, particularly in healthcare systems and two-sided platforms. She serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Her work addresses challenges such as resource allocation in hospitals, congestion management in transportation networks, and optimal design of marketplaces.

Key themes in her publications include healthcare resource optimization, customer preference modeling in transportation systems, and structural estimation of intertemporal externalities in ICU admissions. She actively contributes to advancing methodologies in causal inference and network analysis for complex operational systems.