Aug 2026 – present
Assistant Professor
American University of Sharjah
Department of Industrial Engineering
Curriculum vitae
Yang Deng.
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
American University of Sharjah · Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
ydeng@aus.edu · ORCID 0000-0002-4803-9014
Professional profile · Updated November 2026
Appointments & industry experience
Oct 2025 – Jul 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tsinghua University
Dec 2019 – Aug 2020
Project Manager
Inner Mongolia Zhonghou Steel Plate Co., Ltd
Production planning, inventory checks, scheduling, quality inspection, sales forecasts, and pricing.
Jun 2018 – Nov 2019
Junior Engineer / Engineer in Training
Hatch Associates Consultants, Inc.
Cost estimation, project management and infrastructure planning, including port automation and transport projects.
Education
2021 – 2025
PhD, Systems Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
2020 – 2025
PhD, Management Science and Engineering
Xi’an Jiaotong University
2015 – 2018
M.S., Transportation Engineering
University of Southern California
2011 – 2015
B.E., Industrial Design
Shaanxi University of Science and Technology
The doctorates at Xi’an Jiaotong University and City University of Hong Kong were completed through a joint doctoral programme.
Research interests
Operations research; production and inventory control; urban logistics; dynamic resource allocation; reinforcement learning; and decision-making under uncertainty.
Current directions also include understanding how prediction errors affect sequential decisions, and connecting learning models with operational consequences.
Teaching
Fall 2026
INE 331 — Analysis of Production Systems
Instructor · American University of Sharjah
Selected publications
- Yang, C., Chow, A. H. F., Deng, Y., & Zhang, Z. (2027). Dynamic optimization of order assignment and service pricing for urban goods delivery via crowdsourcing with uncertainties. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 218, 105362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2026.105362 Research summary
- Deng, Y., Sheng, G., Chow, A. H. F., Zhou, Z., Bai, Q., & Su, Z. (2025). Collaborative production control and distributor selection via multi-agent reinforcement learning with differentiable communication. Expert Systems with Applications, 282, 127539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.127539 Research summary
- Deng, Y., Chow, A. H. F., Yan, Y., Su, Z., Zhou, Z., & Kuo, Y.-H. (2025). Hierarchical production control and distribution planning under retail uncertainty with reinforcement learning. International Journal of Production Research, 63(12), 4504–4522. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2025.2452386 Research summary
- Deng, Y., Yan, Y., Chow, A. H. F., Zhou, Z., Ying, C., & Kuo, Y.-H. (2024). A proximal policy optimization approach for food delivery problem with reassignment due to order cancellation. Expert Systems with Applications, 258, 125045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.125045 Research summary
Professional service
Secretary, International Exchange Working Committee, Operations Research Society of China.
Peer review for journals including Transportation Research Part C; Transportation Research Part E; International Journal of Production Research; International Journal of Production Economics; Expert Systems with Applications; IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; Applied Energy; Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics.