About Me
My name is Yangge Xiao. I just obtained my Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. My research focuses on mechanism and information design, understanding how to use monetary rewards or information to reduce efficiency loss and mitigate interest misalignment among decision-makers. You can contact me at yangge_xiao@u.nus.edu.
Education
- National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Ph.D. Candidate in Operations Research, Aug. 2018 – Jan. 2024
- Thesis: "Incentive and Information Design in Sequential Search Model"
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- M.Eng. in Management Science and Engineering, Sep. 2015 – Jul. 2018
- B.Eng. in Management Science and Engineering, Sep. 2011 – Jun. 2015
Research Interests
- operations-economics interface
- pricing and mechanism design
- innovation and information design
- searching and learning
- dynamic programming
Research
Papers under Review
- Optimal Dynamic Mechanism under Customer Search, [ssrn],
- Zhenyu Hu, Yangge Xiao.
- Forthcoming at Operations Research
- Information Design of a Delegated Search, [ssrn],
- Yangge Xiao, Zhenyu Hu, Shouqiang Wang
- under revision at Management Science
- Runner-up for 2023 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society (DAS) Best Student Paper Award
- accepted by the Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'23), 2023
- selected for presentation in the MSOM Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (TIE) SIG, 2023
Work in Progress
- Optimal Product Line Design with Customer Learning
- Zhenyu Hu, Yangge Xiao
- draft complete
- Dynamic Contracting within Teams
- Ping Cao, Peng Sun, Feng Tian,Yangge Xiao
- manuscript in preparation
- Treasure Hunting: An Information Design Perspective
- Yangge Xiao, Zhenyu Hu, Shouqiang Wang
- manuscript in preparation
Teaching
Instructor
- DAO1704 Decision Analytics using Spreadsheets (Undergraduate Core, NUS Business School), Fall 2021
- Class Enrollment: 54
- Overall Evaluation of the Instructor: 4.2/5.0 (Course Average: 4.0/5.0)
- Graduate Teaching Award
- Selected Testimonials from Students
- "She is very dedicated to making lessons engaging and easily understandable. She is someone who also listens actively to feedback from students and tries her best to ensure students learn well."
- "Ms Yangge goes the extra mile to help us clear any doubts we have about concepts or our project. She also tries to simplify concepts which may be more confusing for us, such as through using analogies."
Tutor
- DAO1704X Decision Analytics using Spreadsheets (Undergraduate Core), Spring 2020
Teaching Assistant
- DBA5103 Operations Research and Analytics (Master Core), Fall 2019, 2020
Miscellaneous
Personal Interests
- Photography (following are some of my work)
- Skipping and Boxing
