Aric Cheng

Aric Cheng

👋🏼 Greetings! I'm Aric Cheng (程宇清), a Ph.D. candidate in the NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management at W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. I am fortunate to be advised by Avnet Professor Elliot Rabinovich. I earned my Master's degree in Business Analytics from Washington University in 2023 and my Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2021.

Digital Infrastructure Platform Operations Last-Mile Delivery Causal Inference Applied Econometrics

I study digital infrastructure in operations — how it is produced, maintained, and consumed, and how its quality shapes operational outcomes. In one stream, I examine how the entry of paid contributors into volunteer-driven mapping platforms reshapes contribution dynamics. In another, I study how underlying map data quality propagates to last-mile delivery performance. My work combines large-scale archival data with quasi-experimental identification strategies.

Education

Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business

Tempe, AZ
Ph.D. in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management Expected 2028

Washington University, Olin Business School

St. Louis, MO
MSc. in Business Analytics 2023

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of Mathematics

Shanghai, China
BSc. in Applied Mathematics (Minor: Financial Statistics) 2021

Research

Papers under Review or Revision

  1. Aric Cheng*, Abhishek Nagaraj*, Eunae Yoo*, and Elliot Rabinovich. "Stronger Together? Corporate Contributions and Volunteer Engagement in Online Communities." Major Revision at Management Science. SSRN

*Denotes equal contribution.

Working Papers

  1. Aric Cheng, Elliot Rabinovich, and Stanley Lim. "Online Mapping Errors and Their Impact on Last-Mile Delivery Operations."

Teaching

Instructor of Record @ Arizona State University

Course Level Term
SCM 315: Supply Chain Analytics (Enrollment: 43) Undergraduate FL26

See Teaching for full TA history.

Curriculum Vitae

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Hobby

📷 Photography | Unsplash: @ariccheng