Dynamic stochastic matching problems arise in a variety of recent applications, ranging from ridesharing and online video games to kidney exchange. Such problems are naturally formulated as Markov ...

This course covers reinforcement learning aka dynamic programming, which is a modeling principle capturing dynamic environments and stochastic nature of events. The main goal is to learn dynamic ...

The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 28, No. 1 (February 2018), pp. 1-34 (34 pages) In this paper, we aim to develop the stochastic control theory of branching diffusion processes where both the ...

Option pricing and stochastic control methods constitute a vital intersection of quantitative finance and applied mathematics, offering robust frameworks for evaluating derivative securities and ...

Dan Zhang is Associate Professor of Operations Management at Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Zhang teaches in the area of operations management and data analytics in ...