About
Tim (Yuxuan) Lu — revenue management and pricing professional specializing in airline pricing optimization, continuous pricing, demand forecasting, and NDC systems.
Background
I received my PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where I conducted research under Professor Peter Belobaba in the field of airline revenue management and forecasting.
My work bridges academic research with production-scale industry systems — particularly in modern airline offer optimization and pricing technologies. The gap between theory and live deployment is where I spend most of my time.
Current work
Lead Data Science Engineer · Sabre
Next-generation airline pricing and optimization technologies
- Continuous pricing strategy and architecture
- Airline pricing optimization at scale
- Revenue management systems
- Demand forecasting for offer construction
- Pricing experimentation and evaluation frameworks
- Ancillary pricing analysis
- Scalable ML systems for airline commerce
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD — Airline Revenue Management and Forecasting
Advisor: Professor Peter Belobaba
Dissertation:
Market-Based and Policy-Based Conditional Demand Forecaster for Airline Revenue Management
Research areas:
- Airline demand forecasting
- Revenue management under competition
- Competitive market modeling
- Pricing optimization
- Ancillary services and market behavior
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master's — Airline Revenue Management
Thesis:
Impacts of Ancillary Services in Competitive Market Situations
Technical areas
Revenue Management
- Dynamic pricing
- Continuous pricing
- Offer optimization
- Inventory-aware pricing
- Forecasting systems
Data Science & ML
- Predictive modeling
- Time-series forecasting
- Optimization systems
- Experimentation frameworks
- Large-scale production ML
Airline Commerce
- NDC distribution
- Offer and order transformation
- Ancillary strategy
- Retailing systems
Beyond work
Accompanied at home by a German Shepherd and a Sheltie.
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