Research Workshops Workshop in Operations/Management Science
In this workshop, faculty members and others present their latest operations and management science research. The organizer of this workshop is Johannes de Nova. Please refer to the weekly announcement for up-to-date room or time changes.
When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers opt not to circulate their papers. Therefore, the link will be unavailable.
Please note that workshops are currently being held virtually on Zoom. Contact Johannes de Nova if you would like to be added to the weekly mailing list.
Spring 2022
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, March 29 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom (HC-3B) | Labor Cost Free-Riding in the Gig Economy |
Garrett Van Ryzin | Amazon |
| Thursday, March 31 (Brownbag) | 12:00–1:00 p.m. | Dual Modality (C05) | Structured Ambiguity and Model Misspecification / Asset Pricing under Smooth Ambiguity in Continuous Time |
Lars Peter Hansen | University of Chicago |
| Tuesday, April 5 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Dual Modality (HC-3B) | Online Optimization Problems with Learning Options | Patrick Jaillet | MIT |
| Tuesday, April 12 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Dual Modality (HC-3B) | Does Fake News Create Echo Chambers? | Senthil Veeraraghavan | UPenn Wharton |
| Tuesday, April 19 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, April 26 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, May 3 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Zoom (HC-3B) | Geometric Aggregation of the Social Welfare in Resource Allocation |
Yinyu Ye | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, May 10 | 1:30–2:30 p.m. |
Dual Modality (HC-3B) | A Primal-Dual Approach to Constrained Markov Decision Processes (Paper) |
Jing Dong | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, May 17 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Dual Modality (HC-3B) | Simultaneous and Sequential Choice Behavior with Search Cost: Modeling, Optimization and Estimation (Relevant Papers: 1, 2) | Ruxian Wang | Johns Hopkins University |
| Tuesday, May 24 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Zoom (HC-3B) | Exactness and Algorithmic Efficiency in Semidefinite Programming Relaxations | Fatma Kilinc-Karzan | Carnegie Mellon University |
Winter 2022
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, January 4 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | Causal Inference with Selectively Deconfounded Data |
Kyra Gan | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Tuesday, January 11 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | Beyond First-Order Methods for Large-Scale Optimization (Relevant papers: 1, 2, 3) |
Brian Bullins | Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago |
| Tuesday, January 18 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | A New Toolbox for Scheduling Theory |
Ziv Scully | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Tuesday, January 25 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | Revenue Management Meets Inventory Management (Relevant papers: 1, 2, 3) | Stefanus Jasin | University of Michigan |
| Tuesday, February 1 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Dual Modality (HC-3B) | Searching for the Best Yardstick: Cost of Quality Improvements in the U.S. Hospital Industry |
Jong Myeong Lim | University of Pennsylvania |
| Tuesday, February 8 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Dual Modality | Fair Exploration for Online Learning (Relevant paper) |
Jackie Baek | MIT |
| Tuesday, February 15 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Dual Modality | Discrimination, diversity, and information in college admissions policies (Relevant Paper) |
Faidra Monachou | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, February 22 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Dual Modality | Causal inference for socio-economic and engineering systems (Relevant papers: 1 and 2) |
Anish Agarwal |
MIT |
Autumn 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, September 14 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Dual Modality | Optimal Patient Selection into Care Management Programs |
Alba Nadal | Chicago Booth |
| Tuesday, September 21 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Dual Modality | Multi-Item Online Order Fulfillment in a Two-Layer Network | Linwei Xin | Chicago Booth |
| Tuesday, September 28 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | Scoring-based resource allocation: theory and application |
Nikos Trichakis | MIT |
| Tuesday, October 5 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Dual Modality | Smooth Contextual Bandits: Bridging the Parametric and Non-differentiable Regimes | Nathan Kallus | Cornell University |
| Tuesday, October 12 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Zoom | Choice Overload with Search Cost and Anticipated Regret: Theoretical Framework and Field Evidence | Dennis Zhang | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Tuesday, October 19 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | Private vs. Pooled Transportation: Customer Preference, Environmental Impact, and Congestion Management |
Fanyin Zheng | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, October 26 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, November 2 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Dual Modality | Policy Robustness in Stochastic Processing Networks |
John Hasenbein | UT Austin |
| Tuesday, November 9 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Dual Modality | New Theory and Improved Computational Performance of the Frank-Wolfe Method for Data Science Applications (abstract) (relevant paper) |
Robert Freund | MIT |
| Tuesday, November 16 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Dual Modality | First Order Methods for Linear Programming: Theory, Computation, and Applications |
Sean Lu | Chicago Booth |
| Tuesday, November 23 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | No Meeting | |||
| Tuesday, November 30 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Dual Modality | Marketplace Expansion through Marquee Seller Adoption: Externalities and Quality Implications (Bio) | Wedad Elmaghraby | University of Maryland |
| Tuesday, December 7 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Zoom | Optimal Queue Design (Online Appendix) (Bio) | Yeon-Koo Che |
Columbia University |
Spring 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, March 30 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | Data-Driven Pricing | Omar Besbes | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, April 6 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | Models and Methods for Omni-channel Fulfillment | R. Ravi | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Tuesday, April 13 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | The Spillover Effects of Capacity Pooling in Hospitals (Bio) |
Hummy Song | University of Pennsylvania |
| Tuesday, April 20 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | Scoring-based resource allocation: theory and application (CANCELLED) | Nikos Trichakis | MIT |
| Tuesday, April 27 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Zoom | Online Assortment Optimization for Two-sided Matching Platforms |
Daniela Saban | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, May 4 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, May 11 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | Parallel Approximate Undirected Shortest Paths Via Low Hop Emulators |
Cliff Stein | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, May 18 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. |
Zoom | The Impact of Sampling Error on Pay for Performance |
Nicos Savva | London Business School |
| Tuesday, May 25 | 12:30–1:40 p.m. | Zoom | The M&SOM Journal and a Taste of the Role of Analytics in the Fight of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Georgia Perakis | MIT |
| Tuesday, June 1 | 12:10–1:20 p.m. | Zoom | The Impact of Bots in the (First) Impeachment of Donald Trump |
Tauhid Zaman | Yale University |
Winter 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, January 5 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Hospital Boarding Crises: The Impact of Urgent versus Prevention Responses on Length of Stay | Temidayo Adepoju | Boston University |
| Tuesday, January 12 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Quality Selection in Two-Sided Markets: A Constrained Price Discrimination Approach |
Bar Light | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, January 19 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Optimizing group-level food policy interventions (Abstract) (Full Paper) |
Elisabeth Paulson | MIT |
| Tuesday, Janaury 26 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Data-driven Optimization of Online Advertising Auctions (Abstract) (Paper 1) (Paper 2) |
Mahsa Derakhshan | University of Maryland |
| Tuesday, February 2 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, February 9 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Online Policies for Efficient Volunteer Crowdsourcing |
Vahideh Manshadi | Yale University |
| Tuesday, February 16 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Constant Regret Re-solving Heuristics for Revenue Management Problems |
He Wang | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Tuesday, February 23 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. |
Zoom | Coordinated Care: Capacity Allocation to Improve Itinerary Completion in Queueing Networks | Pengyi Shi | Purdue University |
| Tuesday, March 2 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Experimenting in Equilibrium | Stefan Wager | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, March 9 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, March 16 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Delay Information in Virtual Queues: A Large-Scale Field Experiment on a Ride-Sharing Platform (Relevant Media) (Bio) |
Qiuping Yu | Georgia Institute of Technology |
Autumn 2020
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, September 22 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Fairness in Pollution Regulation (Paper) (Bio) | Krishnan Anand | University of Utah |
| Tuesday, September 29 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | The Value of Personal Data in Internet Commerce: a High-stake Field Experiment on Data Regulation Policy | Tianshu Sun | University of Southern California |
| Tuesday, October 6 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Sparsity-Agnostic Lasso Bandit | Garud Iyengar | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, October 13 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Queueing Network Controls via Deep Reinforcement Learning | Jim Dai | Cornell University |
| Tuesday, October 20 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Marrying Stochastic Gradient Descent with Bandits: Learning Algorithms for Inventory Systems with Fixed Costs (Abstract/Bio) (Full Paper) | Cong Shi |
University of Michigan |
| Tuesday, October 27 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Maximizing Sequence-Submodular Functions and its Application to Online Advertising |
Azarakhsh Malekian | University of Toronto |
| Tuesday, November 3 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Operational Data Analytics (ODA): From Data Driven to Data Integrated Prescriptive Operations Management |
George Shanthikumar | Purdue University |
| Tuesday, November 10 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. |
Zoom | No Meeting | ||
| Tuesday, November 17 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Faster Deliveries and Smarter Order Assignments for an On-Demand Meal Delivery Platform | Chris Tang | UCLA |
| Tuesday, December 1 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Experimental Design in Two-Sided Platforms: An Analysis of Bias | Ramesh Johari | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, December 8 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | Zoom | Matching in Dynamic Environments | Amin Saberi | Stanford University |
Winter 2020
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, January 7 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
No meeting | ||
| Tuesday, January 14 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Network Revenue Management with Performance Guarantees: An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach (see related paper) | Mika Sumida | Cornell University |
| Tuesday, January 21 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | From affine to threshold policies: a new framework in dynamic robust optimization | Omar El Housni | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, January 28 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Large Dimensional Latent Factor Modeling with Missing Observations and Applications to Causal Inference | Ruoxuan Xiong | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, February 4 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Online Linear Programming: Dual Convergence, New Algorithms, and Regret Bounds (abstract) (full paper) | Xiaocheng Li |
Stanford University |
| Tuesday, February 11 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Large-Scale Optimization and Nonconvexity: From Deep Learning to Energy Markets (abstract) (Paper 1) (Paper 2) | Navid Azizan | Caltech |
| Tuesday, February 18 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Predicting with Proxies: Transfer Learning in High Dimension | Hamsa Bastani | University of Pennsylvania |
| Monday, February 24 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B | CloudEx: Using Accurate Clocks to Build a Financial Exchange in the Cloud (abstract) (Paper 1) (Paper 2) | Balaji Prabhakar | Stanford |
| Tuesday, February 25 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Incentive-aware Learning (Paper 1) (Paper 2) | Negin Golrezaei | MIT |
| Tuesday, March 3 | 1:30–2:30 p.m. | C05 | Efficient Graph Matching: Algorithms and Theory (abstract) (Paper 1) (Paper 2) (Paper 3) | Jiaming Xu | Duke University |
Autumn 2019
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, September 24 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Data-Pooling in Stochastic Optimization | Vishal Gupta | University of Southern California |
| Tuesday, October 1 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Rent-to-Own Business Models in Developing Economies | Jose Guajardo | UC Berkeley |
| Tuesday, October 8 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | 3D Printing and the Future of Spare Parts (Abstract) (Relevant Papers: "3D Printing of Spare Parts via IP License Contracts" and "Stock or Print? Impact of 3-D Printing on Spare Parts Logistics") | Jeannette Song | Duke University |
| Tuesday, October 15 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Optimal Genetic Testing for Families | Kanix Wang | The University of Chicago |
| Tuesday, October 22 | No Meeting (INFORMS) | ||||
| Tuesday, October 29 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, November 5 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Does crowdfunding benefit entrepreneurs and venture capital investors? | Volodymyr Babich | Georgetown University |
| Tuesday, November 12 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Management and Effects of In-Store Promotional Displays | Ali Parlaktürk | University of North Carolina |
| Tuesday, November 19 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Dynamic Optimization of Mobile Push Advertising Campaigns | Van-Anh Truong | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, November 26 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, December 3 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Seeding the Herd: Pricing and Welfare Effects of Social Learning Manipulation | Yiangos Papanastasiou | UC Berkeley |
Spring 2019
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, April 2 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Market Design for Uber's Ride-Hailing Platform | Hamid Nazerzadeh | University of Southern California |
| Tuesday, April 9 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | The Price and Variety Effects of Vertical Mergers | Awi Federgruen | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, April 16 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Learning and Efficiency of Outcomes in Games | Eva Tardos | Cornell University |
| Tuesday, April 23 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Achieving High-Service Level without Safety Stock? Optimal Rationing Policy of Pooled Resources | Jiawei Zhang | New York University |
| Tuesday, April 30 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Improving Welfare in Agricultural Supply Chains in Developing Countries | Karen Zheng | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Tuesday, May 7 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Learning in Repeated Auctions with Budgets: Regret Minimization and Equilibrium | Santiago Balseiro | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, May 14 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Adaptive Sequential Experiments with Unknown Information Flows | Yonatan Gur | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, May 21 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, May 28 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Models and Methods for Omni-channel Fulfillment (CANCELLED) | R Ravi | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Tuesday, June 4 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Business Models for Technology-Intensive Supply Chains | Hyoduk Shin | University of California, San Diego |
| Tuesday, June 11 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Managing inventory for a multi-divisional corporation with cash pooling | Kevin Shang | Duke University |
Winter 2019
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, Jan 8 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
A Primal-Dual Approach to Analyzing ATO Systems | Levi DeValve | Duke University |
| Tuesday, Jan 15 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Learning Models with Uniform Subpopulation Performance | Hongseok Namkoong | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, Jan 22 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Gradient Boosting Machines: New Insights, Algorithms, and Improved Complexity |
Haihao (Sean) Lu | MIT |
| Tuesday, Jan 29 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Learning to Make Decisions in Statistical and Strategic Environments (See: paper) | Zhengyuan Zhou | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, Feb 5 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Spatial Capacity Planning | Francisco Castro | Columbia University |
| Thursday, Feb 7 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | C25 | The Impact of Medication Delays on Patient Health in the ICU: Estimating Marginal Effects Under Endogenous Delays | Lesley Meng | University of Pennsylvania |
| Tuesday, Feb 12 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Data, Markets, and Structured Online Learning | Rad Niazadeh | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, Feb 26 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Dynamic Disruption Management in Airline Networks under Airport Operating Uncertainty | Lavanya Marla | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Tuesday, March 5 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Zero-Order Methods for the Optimization of Noisy Functions | Jorge Nocedal | Northwestern University |
| Tuesday, March 12 | 1:30–2:30 p.m. | HC-3B | Optimized Pricing in Advert markets and in Insurance (Abstract) (Paper) | Neil Walton | University of Manchester |
| Tuesday, March 19 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Nonlinear Dynamics in Queueing Theory: Determining the Size of Oscillations in Queues with Delay and A Stochastic Analysis of Queues with Customer Choice and Delayed Information | Jamol Pender | Cornell University |
Autumn 2018
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, Sept 25 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Three Operations Management Problems in Criminology | Lawrence Wein | Stanford University |
| Tuesday, Oct 2 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | On the Regret of Dynamic and Stochastic Knapsack Problems |
Alessandro Arlotto | Duke University |
| Tuesday, Oct 9 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Sustaining Smallholders and Rainforests by Eliminating Payment Delay in a Commodity Supply Chain—It Takes a Village | Dan Iancu |
Stanford University |
| Tuesday, Oct 16 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Optimal worst-case pricing for a logit demand model with network effects | William Cooper | University of Minnesota |
| Tuesday, Oct 23 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Persuading Customers to Buy Early: The Value of Personalized Information Provisioning | Kimon Drakopoulos | University of Southern California |
| Tuesday, Oct 30 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Non-Stationary Streaming Principal Component Analysis, Variance-Aware Optimal Power Flow, and Stochastic Defense Against Complex Grid Attacks | Daniel Bienstock | Columbia University |
| Tuesday, Nov 6 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, Nov 13 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | A Queueing Model and Analysis for Autonomous Vehicles on Highways |
Soo-Haeng Cho | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Tuesday, Nov 20 | No Meeting | ||||
| Tuesday, Nov 27 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B |
Prophet Inequalities and Posted Price Mechanisms | Jose Correa |
University of Chile |
| Tuesday, Dec 4 | 12:10–1:10 p.m. | HC-3B | Discounted Regret Minimization and Expert Selection | Vijay Kamble |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Tuesday, Dec 11 | No Meeting | ||||