Shengyu Cao 曹圣宇
Postdoctoral Researcher
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
On the 2026–27 academic job market. Job market paper: A Solicit-Then-Suggest Model of Agentic Purchasing
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, working with Professor Ming Hu. I received my Ph.D. in Management from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2023, advised by Professor Simai He.
My research asks how AI is changing operations and markets: how AI agents make decisions, how to deploy them in operational decision-making, and how they reshape platforms and commerce. My work builds on optimization and stochastic modeling, with applications in pricing, platform operations, and healthcare. It has appeared in Mathematics of Operations Research, and three of my papers are under major revision at Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.