Prof. Ramesh Johari
Stanford University
Talk:
Managing congestion in dynamic matching markets
Biography:
Ramesh Johari is a Professor at Stanford University, with a full-time appointment in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E), and a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE). He is an associate director of Stanford Data Science. He is a member of the Operations Research group and the Social Algorithms Lab (SOAL) in MS&E, the Information Systems Laboratory in EE, and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He received an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard, a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He is the recipient of a British Marshall Scholarship, First Place in the INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition, the George M. Sprowls Award for the best doctoral thesis in computer science at MIT, Honorable Mention for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant, the MS&E Graduate Teaching Award, the INFORMS Telecommunications Section Doctoral Dissertation Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Cisco Faculty Scholarship. He has served on the program committees of ACM Economics and Computation (including co-chairing the conference in 2019), ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Infocom, and ACM SIGMETRICS, as the track chair for the Internet Economics and Monetization Track at WWW, and as a founding co-organizer of the Marketplace Innovation Workshop. He served as founding Area Co-Editor of the Revenue Management and Market Analytics Area for Operations Research, and as associate editor for Management Science (in the Stochastic Models and Simulation area) and Stochastic Systems.
