Julia Yan
Director, Centre for Transportation Studies
Assistant Professor, Operations and Logistics Division
Julia Yan is an Assistant Professor in the Operations and Logistics division. She is interested in applied optimization problems in transportation, with a particular interest in ridesharing and public transit. Prior to joining UBC, she received her PhD from the Operations Research Center at MIT and her AB from Princeton University. She also spent a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at Lyft.
Selected Publications
- Shen Y., Yan C., Yan J. (2026), “Case Article—Calyber: A Ridesharing Game.” INFORMS Transactions on Education, 26(3), 218-225.
- Yan, C., Yan, J., and Shen, Y. (2026), “Pricing shared rides”. Operations Research, 74(4), 1834-1857.
- Yan, J., Martin, S., and Taylor, S.J. (2025), "Trading flexibility for adoption: From dynamic to static walking in ridesharing". Management Science, 71(7), 5875-5892.
- Barnhart C., Bertsimas D., Delarue A., Yan J. (2022), “Course scheduling under sudden scarcity: Applications to pandemic planning”. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24(2), 727-745.
- Bertsimas D., Yan J. (2018), “From physical properties of transportation flows to demand estimation: An optimization approach”. Transportation Science, 52(4), 1002-1011.