Dongyuan Zhan is an Assistant Professor at UCL School of Management. He studies service operations, with an emphasis on strategic behavior of servers and agents. He has won several awards including Second Place of CSAMSE Best Paper Award, NET Institute Summer Research Grant, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and an M.S. degree in Operations Research also from USC.  He obtained a B.S., and an M.S. degree, both in Control Sciences and Engineering, from Tsinghua University.