Sainan Zhang
Sainan Zhang is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Decision Sciences at The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). She received her Ph.D. in Operation Research and Control Theory from Dalian University of Technology. Prior to joining GW, she worked as a Lecturer at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics and as a Research Assistant at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research involves preference robust optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, and stochastic programming, including chance-constrained models with applications in energy systems.
1. Jian Hu, Dali Zhang, Huifu Xu, and Sainan Zhang. Distributional Utility Preference Robust Optimization Models in Multi-Attribute Decision Making. Mathematical Programming, 212: 519–565, 2025.
2. Shaoyan Guo, Huifu Xu, and Sainan Zhang. Utility Preference Robust Optimization with Moment-Type Information Structure. Operations Research, 72(5): 2241–2261, 2024.
3. Sainan Zhang, Shaoyan Guo, Liwei Zhang, and Hongwei Zhang. On Distributionally Robust Optimization Problems with k-th Order Stochastic Dominance Constraints Induced by Full Random Quadratic Recourse. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 493(2): 124564, 2021.
1. Preference elicitation
2. Stochastic optimization
3. Energy systems modeling