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Prof. Yossi Aviv

Prof. Yossi AvivWashington University in St. LouisTalk:Strategic Consumer Behavior in Dynamic Pricing SystemsBiography:Yossi Aviv is a Professor of Management at the Coller School of Management. He received his B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and M.Sc. degree in Operations Research and Systems Analysis from the Technion, Israel, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He also hold...

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Prof. Rene A. Caldentey

Prof. René A. CaldenteyNew York UniversityTalk:Optimal Operating Control and Dividend Distribution PoliciesBiography:René Caldentey is a Professor of Operations Management. His primary research interests include stochastic modeling with applications to revenue and retail management, queueing theory, and finance. He has been published in numerous journals including Advances in Applied Probabilit...

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Prof. Leon Yang Chu

Prof. Leon Yang ChuUniversity of Southern CaliforniaTalk:Bundled Procurement for (Free) Technology Acquisition and Future CompetitionBiography:Leon Yang Zhu is a Professor of Operations Management at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining CKGSB, Leon was a tenured full professor at the Data Sciences and Operations Department of the Marshall School of Business, University ...

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Prof. William L. Cooper

Prof. William L. CooperUniversity of MinnesotaTalk:On the Use of "Buy Up" as a Model of Customer Choice in Revenue Management Biography:William L. Cooper is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Minnesota. His research and teaching interests include revenue management and stochastic models. Professor Cooper joined University of Minnesota in 1999 af...

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Prof. Vivek Farias

Prof. Vivek FariasMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyTalk:A New Approach to Modeling ChoiceBiography:Vivek is interested in the development of new methodologies and applications for large scale dynamic optimization. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2007 and is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor at MIT. Vivek is a recipient of an INFORMS MSOM Stud...

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Prof. L. Jeff Hong

Prof. L. Jeff HongHong Kong University of Science and TechnologyTalk:CVaR approximation to chance constrained program: What is lost and how to find it back?Biography:Professor Jeff Hong received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University in 2004, MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 2001, and BEng in Automative Engineering a...

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Prof. Anton Kleywegt

Prof. Anton KleywegtGeorgia Institute of TechnologyTalk:Resource Exchange Seller AlliancesBiography:Anton Kleywegt is an associate professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Kleywegt conducts research in optimization and stochastic modeling with applications in transportation, distribution, and logistics, especially in the following areas: vehicle...

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Prof. Özalp Özer

Prof. Özalp ÖZERThe University of Texas at DallasTalk: Mechanism Design (for Capacity Planning) under Dynamic Evolution of Asymmetric (Demand Forecast) InformationBiography: Özalp Özer is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Dallas. Previously he was an Associate Professor at Columbia University and Stanford University. His general research interest is to investigate the impact ...

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Prof. Garrett van Ryzin

Prof. Garrett van RyzinColumbia UniversityTalk:Choice-Based Revenue ManagementBiography:Garrett van Ryzin is the Paul M. Montrone Professor Emeritus of Decision, Risk, and Operations at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. In 2015, he joined Uber Technologies as Head of Marketplace Optimization Advanced Development. In 2017, he became Professor of Operations, Information and Tec...

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Prof. Amy Ward

Prof. Amy WardUniversity of Southern CaliforniaTalk:Blind Fair Routing in Large-Scale Service SystemsBiography:Amy Ward's research focuses on the approximation and control of stochastic systems, with applications to the service industry. Much of her past work has focused on the impact of customer impatience and abandonments on performance. Her more recent work investigates the interactions betw...

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Prof. Yongbo Xiao

Prof. Yongbo XiaoTsinghua UniversityTalk:Evaluating the Potential Effects from Probabilistic Selling of Seasonal ItemsBiography:Yongbo Xiao is a Professor at School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Management Science and Engineering in 2006, and B.E. in Management Information Systems in 2000, all from Tsinghua University. He joined Tsing...

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Prof. Susan H. Xu

Prof. Susan H. XuPennsylvania State UniversityTalk:Managing a Multi-Class Available-to-Promise Assembly System with Dynamic Pseudo Order ForecastBiography:Prof. Xu is Professor of Management Science and Supply Chain Management at Pennsylvania State University. She currently serves as the Director of the PhD Program in Smeal College of Business. She served as the Chair of the Intercollege Dual-T...

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