Jonathan Y. Tan

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Email: jyt2123@columbia.edu

Welcome! I am Jonathan Tan, and I am a second-year PhD student at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. I am fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Adam Elmachtoub and Prof. Yash Kanoria. Prior to joining Columbia, I recieved my bachelor’s degree at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University in 2024.

My research focuses on revenue management and pricing. I am interested in applying queueing theory, mechanism design and optimization to design efficient and socially responsible pricing policies for service systems.

Research

  1. Joint Service Depth and Priority Design in Queueing Systems
    Adam N. Elmachtoub, Yash Kanoria, and Jonathan Y. Tan
    Preliminary version accepted by ACM SIGMETRICS, 2027
  2. Designing Agentic AI-Based Screening for Portfolio Investment
    Mehmet Caner, Agostino Capponi, Nathan Sun, and Jonathan Y. Tan
    Preprint, 2026
  3. Learning Fair Demand Models
    Adam N. Elmachtoub, Hyemi Kim, and Jonathan Y. Tan
    Preliminary version accepted by ACM FAccT, 2026