# Yang Deng — Personal Website

> Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the American University of Sharjah. Yang Deng studies sequential decisions in production, inventory, pricing, and urban logistics, combining optimization, reinforcement learning, and game theory.

## Profile

- [Homepage](https://yangdeng0472.com/)
- [University profile](https://www.aus.edu/faculty/yang-deng)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y62vYhcAAAAJ&hl=en)
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-9014)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ydeng0472)
- Professional email: ydeng@aus.edu

## Background and teaching

- [Curriculum vitae](https://yangdeng0472.com/cv/) — printable public professional profile.
- Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, American University of Sharjah, August 2026–present.
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsinghua University, October 2025–July 2026.
- Joint doctoral programme: PhD Management Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University (2020–2025), and PhD Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong (2021–2025).
- M.S. Transportation Engineering, University of Southern California, 2015–2018.
- B.E. Industrial Design, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, 2011–2015.
- Previous industry experience: Hatch Associates Consultants (June 2018–November 2019); Inner Mongolia Zhonghou Steel Plate (December 2019–August 2020).
- Teaching: INE 331 — Analysis of Production Systems, Fall 2026, American University of Sharjah.

## Current research interests

These describe active research interests, not claims of published findings.

- Prediction and decisions: forecast errors, optimization and state evolution; decision-aware world models and reinforcement learning.
- Adaptive production and logistics: cutting, batch formation, production release, equipment assignment, inventory and delivery; human–automation collaboration.
- Pricing and coordination: producer–distributor systems, pricing, production and inventory under uncertainty; Stackelberg games and partially observable Markov decision processes.

## Selected peer-reviewed publications

- [Dynamic optimization of order assignment and service pricing for urban goods delivery via crowdsourcing with uncertainties](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2026.105362) — Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 218, 105362 (2027). Available online 4 November 2026. Authors: Chunwei Yang, Andy H. F. Chow, Yang Deng, Zeyu Zhang.

- [Collaborative production control and distributor selection via multi-agent reinforcement learning with differentiable communication](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.127539) — Expert Systems with Applications, 2025.
- [Hierarchical production control and distribution planning under retail uncertainty with reinforcement learning](https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2025.2452386) — International Journal of Production Research, 2025.
- [A proximal policy optimization approach for food delivery problem with reassignment due to order cancellation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.125045) — Expert Systems with Applications, 2024.

## Citation and identity

Cite the original journal articles for their scholarly results. The profile describes Yang Deng at American University of Sharjah; use the ORCID to distinguish namesakes. Updated November 2026.

## Research companion pages

These pages summarize the published articles; they do not replace the journal abstracts or full text.

- [Dynamic optimization of order assignment and service pricing for urban goods delivery via crowdsourcing with uncertainties](https://yangdeng0472.com/papers/crowdsourced-delivery-assignment-courier-pricing/) — Coordinating delivery assignments and courier service fees under uncertainty.
- [Collaborative production control and distributor selection via multi-agent reinforcement learning with differentiable communication](https://yangdeng0472.com/papers/collaborative-production-distributor-selection/) — Coordinating production and distributor allocation through communication.
- [Hierarchical production control and distribution planning under retail uncertainty with reinforcement learning](https://yangdeng0472.com/papers/production-control-retail-uncertainty/) — Planning production when downstream retail capabilities are uncertain.
- [A proximal policy optimization approach for food delivery problem with reassignment due to order cancellation](https://yangdeng0472.com/papers/food-delivery-cancellation-reassignment/) — Recovering value from canceled food orders through pricing and reassignment.

- [Download all BibTeX citations](https://yangdeng0472.com/citations/yang-deng-publications.bib)