Ms. Yuan Gao is currently a PhD student majoring in Management Science and Engineering, supervised by A/Prof. Zhen Zhang. Her research interest is group decision making. Her email is gyuan725@163.com.

Educations

B.S. in Information Management and Information Systems, Hainan University, Sep. 2014 - July. 2018

Master Student in Management Science and Engineering, Institute of Systems Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Sep. 2018 - June. 2021

PhD Student in Management Science and Engineering, Institute of Systems Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, since Sep. 2021

Publications

[07] Yuan Gao, Zhen Zhang*. Consensus reaching with non-cooperative behavior management for personalized individual semantics-based social network group decision making, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2022, 73(11), pp. 2518-2535. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2020 IF=2.86, ESI highly cited paper, ESI hot paper)

[06] Zhen Zhang*, Zhuolin Li, Yuan Gao. Consensus reaching for group decision making with multi-granular unbalanced linguistic information: A bounded confidence and minimum adjustment-based approach, Information Fusion, 2021, 74, pp. 96-110. (SCI, EI, 2019 IF=13.669，ESI highly cited paper) 

[05] Zhen Zhang, Junliang Gao, Yuan Gao, Wenyu Yu. Two-sided matching decision making with multi-granular hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and incomplete criteria weight information, Expert Systems with Applications, 2021, 168, 114311. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2019 IF=5.452，ESI highly cited paper)  

[04] Zhen Zhang*, Yuan Gao, Zhuolin Li. Consensus reaching for social network group decision making by considering leadership and bounded confidence, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020, 204, 106240. (SCI, EI, 2019 IF=5.921，ESI highly cited paper) 

[03] Zhen Zhang, Xinyue Kou, Wenyu Yu*, Yuan Gao. Consistency improvement for fuzzy preference relations with self-confidence: An application in two-sided matching decision making, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2021, 72(8), pp. 1914-1927. (SCI, SSCI, EI, 2018 IF=1.754，ESI highly cited paper) 

[02] Zhen Zhang, Wenyu Yu*, Luis Martinez, Yuan Gao. Managing multigranular unbalanced hesitant fuzzy linguistic information in multiattribute large-scale group decision making: A linguistic distribution-based approach, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2020, 28(11), pp. 2875-2889. (SCI, EI, 2018 IF=8.759, ESI highly cited paper, ESI hot paper)

[01] Zhen Zhang, Yuan Gao, Wenyu Yu*. Group decision making with linguistic distribution preference relations: An interval numerical scale-based approach, accepted by the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE 2019), pp. 1-6, Dalian, China, 14-16 November, 2019. (EI, ISTP)