Faculty Profiles - ZHOU Zijie | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Zijie ZHOU
周子杰

PhD in Operations Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025

Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

(852) 2358 7103
jerryzhou@ust.hk
Room 5537
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Google Scholar

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ORCID

0000-0002-4273-9474

Scopus ID

57717888400

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision

Research Interest

Operations research
Optimization
Operations management
Applied probability
Revenue management

Publications

All Years 5 2026 1 2025 1 2024 3 2023 0 2022 0 2021 0

2026 1

A Queueing-Theoretic Framework for Stability Analysis of LLM Inference with KV Cache Memory Constraints

Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2026,
ZHOU, Zijie; SI, Nian; Nie, Chengyi
Conference paper

2025 1

Pigeonhole Design: Balancing Sequential Experiments from an Online Matching Perspective

Management Science, v. 71, (3), p. 1889-1908
Zhao, Jinglong; ZHOU, Zijie
Article

2024 3

Grace Period is All You Need: Realize Individual Fairness in Revenue Management

Paper presented at WINE 2024: The 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jaillet, Patrick; Podimata, Chara; ZHOU, Zijie
Conference paper

Online Scheduling for LLM Inference with KV Cache Constraints

Paper presented at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Statistical Frontiers of LLM and Foundation Models, Vancouver, Canada
Jaillet, Patrick; JIANG, Jiashuo; Mellou, Konstantina; Molinaro, Marco; Podimata, Chara; ZHOU, Zijie
Conference paper

When Should you Offer an Upgrade: Online Upgrading Mechanisms for Resource Allocation

Paper presented at WINE 2024: The 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jaillet, Patrick; Podimata, Chara; Vakhutinsky, Andrew; ZHOU, Zijie
Conference paper

Conference paper 1

A Queueing-Theoretic Framework for Stability Analysis of LLM Inference with KV Cache Memory Constraints

Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2026,
ZHOU, Zijie; SI, Nian; Nie, Chengyi

Article 1

Pigeonhole Design: Balancing Sequential Experiments from an Online Matching Perspective

Management Science, v. 71, (3), p. 1889-1908
Zhao, Jinglong; ZHOU, Zijie

Conference paper 3

Grace Period is All You Need: Realize Individual Fairness in Revenue Management

Paper presented at WINE 2024: The 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jaillet, Patrick; Podimata, Chara; ZHOU, Zijie

Online Scheduling for LLM Inference with KV Cache Constraints

Paper presented at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Statistical Frontiers of LLM and Foundation Models, Vancouver, Canada
Jaillet, Patrick; JIANG, Jiashuo; Mellou, Konstantina; Molinaro, Marco; Podimata, Chara; ZHOU, Zijie

When Should you Offer an Upgrade: Online Upgrading Mechanisms for Resource Allocation

Paper presented at WINE 2024: The 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jaillet, Patrick; Podimata, Chara; Vakhutinsky, Andrew; ZHOU, Zijie

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2026-27 Fall 1 2025-26 Summer 0 2025-26 Spring 1 2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 1 2024-25 Summer 0

IEDA4000H

Optimization in Financial Engineering

IEDA4000I

Generative AI and LLMs for Operations Research

IEDA4000H

Optimization in Financial Engineering

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 10 September 2026)

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

BU, Tianci
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
LYU, Sunkai
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
SONG, Chendong
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
ZHOU, Hang
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

Master of Philosophy

HUNG, Ka Yiu
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 2

No Projects.
Online Optimization for Large Language Model (LLM) Inference

通過在線優化方法加速大語言模型推理 Leading

RGC - Early Career Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHOU Zijie (Lead)
2026 -
efficient LLM inference with mathematical optimization methods

數學優化方法加速大語言模型推理 Leading

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHOU Zijie (Lead)
2025 -