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GUO Sainan

School of Economics and Management

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Biography

Dr. Guo is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Xiamen University Malaysia. Previously, she worked as a lecturer at Vienna University. She completed her PhD in Operations Research at Vienna University, Austria, and obtained her Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics at Bielefeld University in Germany. Her PhD research focused on dynamic adjusting methods for emergency plans in group decision-making based on regret theory, exploring how decision-makers adapt in complex environments.

Research Interest

Dynamic Decision-making, Behavioural Economics with Experimental Research, Group Consensus, and Collective Intelligence.

Educational Background

  • PhD (Operations Research in Management Science), Vienna University, Austria (2019-2024)

  • MSc (Quantitative Economics), Bielefeld University, Germany (2015-2018)

  • BSc (Economics in Finance Orientation), Hangzhou Normal University, China (2011-2015)

Working Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Xiamen University Malaysia. (2025 - present)

  • Lecturer, Vienna University, Austria (2020-2025)

  • Research Assistant, Vienna University, Austria (2018-2023)

  • Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Bielefeld University (2017)

Research Experience

  • Austrian Research Foundation (ÖFG International Communication Grants)

  • Mobility Fellowship (Vienna University and Fudan University)

Representative Publications

Journal Paper

  • Guo, S. (2025). The influence of anticipated regretful participants on group decisions. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 1-30.

  • Guo, S., & Vetschera, R. (2023). Preference reversals in dynamic decision making under uncertainty based on regret theory. Managerial and Decision Economics, 44(3), 1720- 1731.

Conference Paper

  • Guo, S., Vetschera, R., & Wu, J., (2024). Breaking through deadlock: group consensus model based on regret theory. 24th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, Local Proceedings, June 02-05, 2024, Porto, Portugal, paper 64, 159.

  • Guo, S. (2023). The preference reversal in a group when aggregating three types of decision-makers based on regret theory. 23rd International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, Local Proceedings, June 11-15, 2023, Tokyo, Japan, paper 1606, 98-104.

  • Guo, S. (2022). Dynamic adjusting method on emergency plans for group decision- making based on regret theory. Doctoral Consortium, 22nd International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, Proceedings, June 12-16, 2022, 253-260.

Honors / Awards

  • German Final Degree Scholarship (Germany)

  • Distinction Graduate Award (Bielefeld University)

  • Distinction Graduate Award (Hangzhou Normal University)

  • Chinese National Scholarship (China)