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Yao Cui

Yao Cui

  • Associate Professor

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Faculty Area

Faculty Expertise

  • Operations Management
  • Technology Strategy
  • Innovation
  • Hospitality and Services Design, Management and Operations
  • Quantitative Modeling
  • Applied Economics

Contact

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

607.255.0416

yc2268@cornell.edu

Cornell Directory Entry

Biography

Yao Cui is an associate professor of operations, technology, and information management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research centers on operational innovation, specifically examining how new technologies can be used to develop novel operations strategies in supply chains, the gig economy, and the public sector. His work is deeply practice-driven and often conducted in collaboration with leading companies and public organizations to design and evaluate innovative operational solutions. By integrating empirical and analytical methods, he aims to uncover practical insights that help practitioners address operational and managerial challenges.

Cui’s research has been published in leading journals, including Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. His work has earned several awards, including the CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award, the INFORMS Service Science Section Best Student Paper Award, the INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Award, the Digital Supply Chain and Supplier Diversity Conference Best Paper Award, and the INFORMS Public Sector OR Best Paper Award. He holds editorial roles as an associate editor for Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and as a senior editor for Production and Operations Management.

At the Johnson School, Cui received the 2020 Half Century Faculty Research Fellowship and the 2017 Clifford H. Whitcomb Faculty Fellowship. He teaches the operations management core course in the EMBA and MBA programs and revenue management analytics for doctoral students. In 2023, he was named one of the “40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors” by Poets&Quants. Before joining Cornell, he earned his doctoral degree from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University.

Selected Publications

Awards and Honors

  • Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors (2023) Poets&Quants
  • Management Science Distinguished Service Award (2023) INFORMS
  • M&SOM Meritorious Service Award (2023) INFORMS

Recent Courses

  • NRE 5590 - Foundations of Operations Strategy and Supply Chain Management
  • NCCB 5080 - Managing Operations
  • MGMT 5080 - Operations Management

Academic Degrees

  • PhD University Of Michigan, 2015
  • BEng Tsinghua University, 2009

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