About Me

I am Lorraine Yuan, a final year PhD candidate in the Operations, Technology, and Information Management (OTIM) division of SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell Tech, where I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Karan Girotra and Prof. Elena Belavina. I’m also a doctoral fellow at the Digital Life Initiative. I obtained a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics from Renmin University of China. I also hold a M.Eng. in Operations Research from Cornell Tech.

My research interests center on responsible AI adoption, with a particular emphasis on privacy in data-driven decision making and the broader impact of AI adoption at scale.

I develop privacy-preserving data-driven algorithms and explore their impact for adoption at scale in inventory management to enhance profitability maintaining customer privacy. More recently, my work applies computational and statistical methods to design Human-AI copilot strategies for agentic AI within production networks.

Research Interests

Topics: Data Privacy, Generative AI Adoption, Inventory Management, Mechanism Design Methodologies: Data-driven Optimization, Economics Modelling, Differential Privacy

I am on the 2025-2026 job market.

Recent News

I will present my job market paper “Privacy-preserving Data-driven Inventory Management” at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Altanta, GA.

• INFORMS Workshop on Data Science — October 25 (schedule TBA)
• INFORMS Annual Meeting Job Market Showcase Cluster — October 26, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, Bldg A Lvl 3 A311
• INFORMS Annual Meeting MSOM Service Operations Cluster— October 26, 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM, Bldg B Lvl 3 B310