Xiaowei Zhang

Xiaowei Zhang

I am an Associate Professor at HKUST, jointly appointed in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics and the Department of Economics, and the Academic Director of the MSc in FinTech program. I serve as an Associate Editor for several leading journals in the field, including Management Science, Operations Research, Navel Research Logistics, and Queueing Systems.
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Hierarchical AI Multi-Agent Fundamental Investing: Evidence from China’s A‑Share Market

We present a multi-agent, AI-driven framework for fundamental investing that integrates macro indicators, industry-level and firm-specific information to construct optimized equity …

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Can AI Master Econometrics? Evidence from Econometrics AI Agent on Expert-Level Tasks

Can AI effectively perform complex econometric analysis traditionally requiring human expertise? This paper evaluates AI agents' capability to master econometrics, focusing on …

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Qiang Chen
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Seesaw Experimentation: A/B Tests with Spillovers

This paper investigates how a firm's performance can decline even when consistently implementing innovations validated through A/B testing. We introduce the concept of *seesaw …

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Jin Li
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Smooth Nested Simulation: Bridging Cubic and Square Root Convergence Rates in High Dimensions

Nested simulation concerns estimating functionals of a conditional expectation via simulation. In this paper, we propose a new method based on kernel ridge regression to exploit …

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Wenjia Wang
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How Does Risk Hedging Impact Operations? Insights from a Price-Setting Newsvendor Model

If a financial asset's price movement impacts a firm's product demand, the firm can respond to the impact by adjusting its operational decisions. For example, in the automotive …

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Liao Wang
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Sample and Computationally Efficient Stochastic Kriging in High Dimensions

Stochastic kriging has been widely employed for simulation metamodeling to predict the response surface of complex simulation models. However, its use is limited to cases where the …

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Liang Ding
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Dynamic Selection in Algorithmic Decision-making

This paper identifies and addresses dynamic selection problems in online learning algorithms with endogenous data. In a contextual multi-armed bandit model, a novel bias …

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Jin Li

Knowledge Gradient for Selection with Covariates: Consistency and Computation

Knowledge gradient is a design principle for developing Bayesian sequential sampling policies to consider in this paper the ranking and selection problem in the presence of …

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Liang Ding

Surrogate-Based Simulation Optimization

Simulation models are widely used in practice to facilitate decision making in a complex, dynamic and stochastic environment. But they are computationally expensive to execute and …

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L. Jeff Hong
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High-Dimensional Simulation Optimization via Brownian Fields and Sparse Grids

High-dimensional simulation optimization is notoriously challenging. We propose a new sampling algorithm that converges to a global optimal solution and suffers minimally from the …

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Liang Ding