The OMEGA Research Seminars are hosted by the Operations and Decision Analytics group at the Zicklin School of Business, and primarily focus on operations and supply chain management, and its interface with marketing, economics, statistics, computer science, and information systems. The featured talks will utilize various operations research, optimization and/or economics-based theories (such as game theory, principal agent models, behavioral economics) with business applications in retail, supply chain, healthcare and service industries. Seminars for Spring 2024 will be delivered in-person on Thursdays from 12:30pm to 1:45pm. To receive regular seminar announcements, please contact Prof. Yuan-Mao Kao by email.
CURRENT AND FUTURE EVENTS
Spring 2025:
| Date | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 6-Feb-25 | 9-215 | Ton Dieker | Columbia | QPLEX: A Computational Modeling and Analysis Methodology for Stochastic Systems |
| 27-Feb-25 | 9-215 | Vineet Goyal | Columbia | Distributionally Robust Newsvendor on a Metric |
| 13-Mar-25 | 9-215 | Stephen Leider | U Michigan Ross | Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Resource Allocation |
| 27-Mar-25 | 9-215 | Serguei Netessine | Wharton | When Where Watt: Harnessing the Value of Time and Location for Renewable Electricity Generation |
| 3-Apr-25 | 9-215 | Zhen Lian | Yale | Algorithmic Precision and Human Decision: A Study of Interactive Optimization for School Schedules |
| 1-May-25 | 9-215 | Divya Singhvi | NYU Stern | Increasing Parents’ Engagement on Ed-Tech Platforms: Evidence from the Field |
| 15-May-25 | 9-215 | Jiaru Bai | Stony Brook | All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The Impact of Certification Test Costs in Online Labor Markets |
Fall 2024:
| Date | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 26-Sep-24 | 9-215 | Alan Scheller-Wolf | CMU Tepper | Greenness and its Discontents: Operational Implications of Investor Pressure |
| 10-Oct-24 | 9-215 | Ger Koole | VU Amsterdam | On the Validation of Call Center Workforce Scheduling Models |
| 17-Oct-24 | 9-215 | David Dobrzykowski | University of Arkansas | Examining Real Time Location Systems Use in Hospitals: The Moderating Role of Operational Complexity on Inventory and Quality Performance |
| 31-Oct-24 | 9-215 | Vahid Sarhangian | University of Toronto | Dynamic Policies for Inter-Hospital Patient Transfers |
| 7-Nov-24 | 9-215 | Will Ma | Columbia | VC Theory for Inventory Policies |
| 21-Nov-24 | 9-215 | Santiago Gallino | Wharton | Algorithmic Assortment Curation: An Empirical Study of Buybox in Online Marketplaces |
Spring 2024:
| Date | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 15-Feb-24 | 9-215 | Qiuping Yu | Georgetown | Racial and Gender Biases in Customer Satisfaction Surveys: Evidence from a Restaurant Chain |
| 22-Feb-24 | 9-215 | Ken Moon | Wharton | Bringing Data Science to the Management of Workforces |
| 29-Feb-24 | 9-215 | Temple | When Less is More: Analysis and Empirical Evidence of Control Limit Strategies in a Diagnosis Crowdsourcing Platform | |
| 15-Mar-24 | 9-215 | Maxine Cohen | McGill | Incentivizing Healthy Food Choices Using Add-on Bundling: A Field Experiment |
| 29-Mar-24 | 9-215 | Naren Agrawal | Santa Clara | Dynamic Pricing and Bidding for Display Ad Campaigns |
| 04-Apr-24 | 9-215 | Mehmet Gumus | McGill | Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Personalized Delivery and Fulfillment Optimization |
| 02-May-24 | 9-215 | Hummy Song | Wharton | Redesigning Shift Work to Incorporate Heterogeneous Worker Preferences |
Fall 2023:
| Date | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 7-Sep-23 | 9-215 | Noam Shamir | Tel Aviv | Information Provision from a Platform to Competing Sellers: The Role of Strategic Ambiguity |
| 14-Sep-23 | 9-215 | Gad Allon | Wharton | Leveraging Consensus Effect to Optimize Ranking in Online Discussion Boards |
| 28-Sep-23 | 9-215 | Abhishek Roy | Temple | Collaborative New Product Development: Co-creating with a Shared Supplier in the Presence of a Competitor |
| 5-Oct-23 | 9-215 | Ashish Kabra | Maryland | Performance Guarantees for Network Revenue Management via Approximate Dynamic Programming |
| 2-Nov-23 | 9-215 | Mohammad Delasey | Stony Brook | Models for evaluating disease transmission risk in service facilities |
| 16-Nov-23 | 9-215 | Saravanan Kesavan | UNC Chapel Hill | Augmenting Algorithms with Human Input: Estimating the Value of Private Information with a Large-Scale Field Experiment |
| 7-Dec-23 | 9-215 | Daniel Freund | MIT | On the supply of Autonomous Vehicles in Platforms |
PAST EVENTS
Spring 2023:
| Date | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 23-Feb-23 | Rescheduled | Bradley Staats | UNC | |
| 9-Mar-23 | 14-235 | Santiago Balseiro | Columbia University | The Best of Many Worlds: Dual Mirror Descent for Online Allocation Problems |
| 16-Mar-23 | 14-235 | Anita Carson | Boston University | Linking Medication Errors to Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from Eparin Shortages Caused by Hurricane Maria |
| 20-Apr-23 | 14-235 | Joline Uichanco | University of Michigan | Overcoming the profitability problem of e-commerce retail using data-driven product framing |
| 4-May-23 | 14-235 | David Rea | Lehigh University | Who Gets Transferred When Hospitals are Busy? |
| 11-May-23 | Rescheduled | Wedad Elmaghraby | University of Maryland |
Fall 2022:
| Date | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 14-Nov-22 | Hybrid | Vincent Slaugh | Cornell | Service Staffing for Shared Resources |
| 17-Nov-22 | Zoom | Víctor Martínez de Albéniz | IESE | Store-Specific Assortments in the Presence of Product Constraints |
| 1-Dec-22 | Hybrid | Yao Cui | Cornell | Should Gig Platforms Decentralize Dispute Resolution? |
Spring 2022:
| Date | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 24-Feb-22 | Hybrid | Mohammad Akbarpour | Stanford University | Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money |
| 3-Mar-22 | Hybrid | Pengyi Shi | Purdue University | Data-pooling Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Healthcare Intervention |
| 31-Mar-22 | Zoom | Fernando Bernstein | Duke University | Managing Customer Search: Assortment Planning For A Subscription Box Service |
| 7-Apr-22 | Hybrid | David Shmoys | Cornell University | Algorithmic Tools for Congressional Districting: Fairness via Analytics |
| 12-May-22 | Zoom | Garrett van Ryzin | Amazon, Columbia University | Labor Cost Free-Riding in the Gig Economy |
Fall 2021:
| Date | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 23-Sep-21 | In Person | Shlomo Globerson | Tel Aviv University | Measuring productivity in multi-stage, multi-product environment |
| 21-Oct-21 | Zoom | Fanyin Zheng | Columbia University | Private vs. Pooled Transportation: Customer Preference, Environmental Impact, and Congestion Management |
| 28-Oct-21 | Zoom | Nicos Savva | London Business School | The Power of Data: Assessing Primary Care Performance Using Routinely Collected Emergency Department Data |
| 4-Nov-21 | Zoom | Huseyin Topaloglu | Cornell / Cornell Tech |
Joint Assortment Optimization and Customization under a Mixture of Multinomial Logit models: On the Value of Personalized Assortments |
| 18-Nov-21 | Zoom | Georgia Perakis | MIT |
The M&SOM Journal and a Taste of the Role of Analytics in the Fight of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| 2-Dec-21 | Zoom | Brian Tomlin | Dartmouth College | After-Sales Service Contracting: Condition Monitoring and Data Ownership |
| 9-Dec-21 | Zoom | Pnina Feldman | Boston University | Managing Relationships Between Restaurants and Food Delivery Platforms: Conflict, Contracts, and Coordination |
2020 – 2021 Academic Year:
| 4-Sep-20 | Zoom | Adam Elmachtoub | Columbia | Pricing Analytics for Reusable Resources |
| 25-Sep-20 | Zoom | Omar Besbes | Columbia | Data-Driven Pricing |
| 16-Oct-20 | Zoom | Karen Zheng | MIT | Improving Farmers’ Revenue on Digital Agricultural Platforms |
| 30-Oct-20 | Zoom | Tinglong Dai | Johns Hopkins | Does Transportation Mean Transplantation? Impact of New Airline Routes on Sharing of Cadaveric Kidneys |
| 6-Nov-20 | Zoom | Zhi-Long Chen | Maryland | Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Ridesharing Optimization |
| 20-Nov-20 | Zoom | Feryal Erhun | Cambridge | Rapid COVID-19 Modeling Support for Regional Health Systems in England |
| 4-Dec-20 | Zoom | Michael Galbreth | Tennessee | The Impact of Return Logistics on Customer Repurchase: A Service Co-Production Perspective |
| 11-Dec-20 | Zoom | Necati Ertekin | Minnesota | Online-Exclusive or Hybrid? Channel Merchandising Strategies for Ship-to-Store Implementation |
| 18-Dec-20 | Zoom | Lerzan Ormeci | Koc | Modeling Strategic Walk-in Patients in Appointment Systems |
| 29-Jan-21 | Zoom | Daniela Saban | Stanford | Online Assortment Optimization for Two-sided Matching Platforms |
| 6-Feb-21 | Zoom | Annabelle Feng | Purdue | Applications of Operational Data Analytics |
| 19-Feb-21 | Zoom | Kimon Drakopoulos | USC | Testing for COVID-19: From Modeling to Practice |
| 26-Feb-21 | Zoom | Anton Ovchinnikov | Queen’s | Customization and Returns |
| 5-Mar-21 | Zoom | Dorothee Honhon | UT Dallas | Buy-One-Get-One-Free: Impact on Waste and Profit |
| 12-Mar-21 | Zoom | Pelin Pekgun | South Carolina | Estimating Personalized Demand with Unobserved No-purchases using a Mixture Model: An Application in the Hotel Industry |
| 19-Mar-21 | Zoom | Rouba Ibrahim | UCL | Priority Queueing Systems with Deceiving Customers |
| 26-Mar-21 | Zoom | Felipe Caro | UCLA | Believing in Analytics: Managers’ Adherence to Price Recommendations from a DSS |
| 9-Apr-21 | Zoom | Song-Hee Kim | USC | Eliciting Human Judgment for Prediction Algorithms |
| 16-Apr-21 | Zoom | Leela Nageswaran | Washington | Offline Returns for Online Retailers via Partnership |
| 23-Apr-21 | Zoom | Srinivas Talluri | Michigan State | Multivariate Process Control Methods for Evaluating and Monitoring Distribution Network Efficiency |
| 30-Apr-21 | Zoom | Kris Ferreira | Harvard | Demand Learning and Dynamic Pricing for Varying Assortments |
| 7-May-21 | Zoom | Nicole DeHoratius | Chicago | Customer Preferences For Delivery Service Attributes In Attended Home Delivery |
2019 – 2020 Academic Year:
| 19-Nov-19 | 9-215 | Srikanth Jagabathula | NYU | Personalizing Retail Promotions through a DAG-based Representation of Customer Preferences |
| 26-Nov-19 | 14-269 | Ruth Beer | Indiana | Increased Transparency in Procurement: The Role of Peer Effects |
| 5-Dec-19 | 9-210 | Itai Gurvich | Cornell Tech | Dynamic Resource Allocation: On the Geometry of (Bounded) Regret |
| 12-Dec-19 | 14-269 | Vishal Gaur | Cornell | Consumer Learning from Own Experience and Social Information: An Experimental Study |
| 18-Feb-20 | 14-285 | Sergei Savin | Wharton | Investing in Performance: Information and Merit-Based Incentives in K-12 Education |
| 2-Mar-20 | Field Center | Saibal Ray | McGill | Retail Power: A Double-Edged Sword for Upstream Suppliers |
| THE REMAINING SPRING 2020 SEMINAR SCHEDULE HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC! | ||||
2018 – 2019 Academic Year:
| 20-Sep-18 | 14-269 | Nagesh Gavirneni | Cornell | Co-opetition in Service Clusters with Waiting-Area Entertainment |
| 13-Nov-18 | 14-275 | David Dreyfus | Rutgers | Operating Room Disruptions |
| 27-Nov-18 | 14-290 | Yao Zhao | Rutgers | Shipping Unpredictable Demand for Online Sellers: Risk Penalty vs. Flat Rate |
| 4-Dec-18 | 14-275 | Andrew Davis | Cornell | Private Information and Endogenous Matching in Supply Chains: Theory and Experiments |
| 5-Feb-19 | 14-270 | Yunchao Xu | NYU | On Withholding Capacity From Strategic Patients |
| 5-Mar-19 | 9-215 | Lauren Lu | UNC | Does Ownership Conversion From Non-Profit to For-Profit Benefit The Public: Evidence From U.S. Nursing Homes |
| 12-Mar-19 | 14-280 | Fei Gao | Indiana | The Effect of Multi-channel and Omni-channel Retailing on Physical Stores |
| 19-Mar-19 | 14-270 | Vishal Agrawal | Georgetown | Non-ownership Business Models for Solar Energy |
| 2-Apr-19 | 14-275 | Enno Siemsen | Wisconsin | Production Process Moves: Template Use and Barriers to Knowledge Transfer |
| 9-Apr-19 | 9-215 | Mark Ferguson | South Carolina | Estimating Demand with Constrained Data and Product Substitutions |
| 14-May-19 | 14-275 | Ozalp Ozer | UT Dallas | Establishing Trust and Trustworthiness in Global Businesses |
2017 – 2018 Academic Year:
| 19-Sep-17 | 14-240 | Wenbo (Selina) Cai | NJIT | A Principal-Agent Problem with Heterogeneous Demand Distribution for a Carbon Capture and Storage System |
| 26-Sep-17 | 14-240 | Suresh Muthulingam | Penn State | Does Learning from Inspections Affect Environmental Performance? Evidence from Unconventional Well Development in Pennsylvania |
| 3-Oct-17 | 14-240 | Elena Katok | UT Dallas | Negotiating Supply Contracts |
| 10-Oct-17 | 14-240 | Kyle Hyndman | UT Dallas | Understanding the Behavioral Drivers of Execution Failures in Retail Supply Chains: An Experimental Study Using Virtual Reality |
| 17-Oct-17 | 14-240 | Sripad Devalkar | Indian School of Business | Payment for Results: Funding Non-Profit Operations |
| 21-Nov-17 | 14-240 | Tingliang Huang | Boston College | Dynamic Management of Opaque Selling When Customers Use Anecdotal Reasoning |
| 28-Nov-17 | 14-240 | Meng Li | Rutgers | Beneficial Consumer Returns |
| 27-Feb-18 | 14-280 | Maqbool Dada | Johns Hopkins | Pricing Ancillary Service Subscriptions |
| 1-Mar-18 | 14-270 | Levent Kocaga | Yeshiva | Operational Perils and Benefits of Free Trials in Large Scale Service Systems |
| 27-Mar-18 | 14-290 | Gilvan Souza | Indiana | The Value of Battery Energy Store for Energy Shifting |
| 10-Apr-18 | 14-270 | Maxime Cohen | NYU | Frustration-based Promotions: Field Experiments in Ride-Sharing |
| 24-Apr-18 | 14-270 | Robert Bray | Northwestern | Ration Gaming and the Bullwhip Effect |
| 1-May-18 | 14-240 | Robert Swinney | Duke | Becoming Strategic: The Endogenous Determination of Time Preferences and Its Implications for Multiperiod Pricing |
| 15-May-18 | 14-240 | Ilan Lobel | NYU | Surge Pricing and Its Spatial Supply Response |
2016 – 2017 Academic Year:
| 8-Sep-16 | 14-240 | Ozge Sahin | Johns Hopkins | The Impact of Consumer Search Cost on Assortment Planning and Pricing |
| 11-Oct-16 | 14-240 | Ken Boyer | Ohio State | Enhancing Outcomes in Healthcare: Studies on Process Improvement and Healthcare IT Impacts |
| 14-Oct-16 | 14-240 | Xuanming Su | Wharton | Omnichannel Self-Service Technologies |
| 18-Oct-16 | 14-240 | Tarek Abdallah | NYU | Demand Estimation under the Multinomial Logit Model from Sales Transaction Data |
| 1-Nov-16 | 14-240 | Nan Liu | Columbia | When Waiting to See a Doctor is Less Irritating: Understanding Patient Preferences and Choice Behavior in Appointment Scheduling |
| 8-Nov-16 | 14-240 | Volodymyr Babich | Georgetown | R&D Investments in the Presence of Knowledge Spillover and Debt Financing: Can Risk-shifting be a Cure for Free-riding in Equilibrium? |
| 22-Nov-16 | 14-240 | Sezer Ulku | Georgetown | When Is Necessity The Mother of Invention? |
| 29-Nov-16 | 14-240 | Yuqian Xu | NYU | The Effect of Online Reviews on Physician Demand: A Structural Model of Patient Choice |
| 13-Dec-16 | 14-240 | Gustavo Vulcano | NYU | A Partial-Order-Based Model to Estimate Individual Preferences Using Panel Data |
| 31-Jan-17 | 14-240 | Vidya Mani | Penn State | Estimating Substitution and Basket Effects in Retail Stores: Implications for Assortment Planning |
| 21-Mar-17 | 14-240 | Jiri Chod | Boston College | A Signalling Theory of In-Kind Finance |
| 28-Mar-17 | 14-240 | Pinar Yildirim | Wharton | Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Senate Elections and Media Coverage |
| 4-Apr-17 | 14-240 | Fuqiang Zhang | Washington University in St. Louis | 3D Printing vs. Traditional Flexible Technology: Implications for Manufacturing Strategy |
| 6-Apr-17 | 14-240 | Antonio Moreno-Garcia | Northwestern | The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment |
| 2-May-17 | 14-240 | Tim Kraft | Virginia | Supply Chain Visibility and Social Responsibility: Investigating Consumers’ Behaviors and Motive |
2015 – 2016 Academic Year:
| 1-Sep-15 | 9-215 | Michael Pinedo | NYU | Budget Allocations in Operational Risk Management |
| 18-Sep-15 | 9-215 | Vera Tilson | Rochester | The Impact of Custom Contracting and the Intermediary Roles of Healthcare GPOs |
| 20-Oct-15 | 9-215 | Aydin Alptekinoglu | Penn State | Flexible Products for Dynamic Preferences |
| 27-Oct-15 | 14-240 | Kinshuk Jerath | Columbia | Incentive Contracting with Operational Considerations |
| 5-Nov-15 | 4-120 | Dmitry Ivanov | Berlin School of Economics and Law | Global Supply Chain Planning: Ripple Effect and Structure Dynamics Considerations |
| 17-Nov-15 | 14-240 | Wenqiang Xiao | NYU | Optimal Long-Term Supply Contracts with Asymmetric Demand Information |
| 8-Dec-15 | 14-240 | Carri Chan | Columbia | Queues with Time-Varying Arrivals and Inspections with Applications to Hospital Discharge Policies |
| 2-Feb-16 | 14-240 | Haresh Gurnani | Wake Forest | Demonstrations and Price Competition in New Product Release |
| 9-Feb-16 | 14-240 | Gur Mosheiov | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Due Window Assignment with Lead Time Cost |
| 23-Feb-16 | 14-240 | Neda Ebrahim Khanjari | Rutgers | The Impact of Manufacturer SPIFFs on a Supply Chain with Retailer-hired Sales Agent |
| 5-Apr-16 | 14-240 | Subodha Kumar | Texas A&M | Competitive Strategies for Brick-and-Mortar Stores to Counter “Showrooming” |
| 19-Apr-16 | 14-240 | Nicholas Petruzzi | Penn State | Overconfident Competing Newsvendors |
| 12-May-16 | 9-215 | Arash Azadegan | Rutgers | Open Innovation Strategies: A Comparative Assessment Using the Knowledge Base Perspective |
| 17-May-16 | 14-240 | Goker Aydin | Indiana | How to Get the Conflict Out of the Mineral Supply Chain |
| 19-May-16 | 14-240 | Mor Armony | NYU | Critical Care in Hospitals: When to Introduce a Step Down Unit |
2014 – 2015 Academic Year:
| 5-Mar-15 | 9-215 | David Anderson | Baruch | When is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure? Identifying High Risk Candidates for Case Management |
| 2-Apr-15 | 9-215 | Tolga Aydinliyim | Baruch | Counteracting Strategic Purchase Deferrals: The Impact of Online Retailers’ Return Policy Decisions |
| 16-Apr-15 | 9-215 | William Millhiser | Baruch | Designing Appointment System Templates with Operational Performance Targets |
| 30-Apr-15 | 9-215 | Shan Li | Baruch | Is A Newsvendor More Boundedly Rational Making Two Decisions Instead of One? |
| 14-May-15 | 9-215 | Alan Stulman | Jerusalem College of Technology | Determining the Delay Time Distribution in an M/G/∞ Exchangeable Item Repair System with Two Failed Component Types |