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Prof. Annabelle Feng

Prof. Annabelle FengPurdue UniversityTalk:Posted Pricing versus Bargaining in Sequential Selling ProcessBiography:Qi Annabelle Feng is the John and Donna Krenicki Chair in Operations Management at Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. She was previously a faculty member at McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Management ...

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Prof. Peter Frazier

Prof. Peter FrazierCornell UniversityTalk:Information Filtering for arXiv.org: Bandits, Exploration vs. Exploitation, and the Cold Start ProblemBiography:Peter Frazier received a B.S. in Physics and Engineering/Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology in 2000, after which he spent several years in industry as a software engineer, working for two different start-up companies a...

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Prof. Vineet Goyal

Prof. Vineet GoyalColumbia UniversityTalk:A Markov Chain Approximation for Choice ModelingBiography:Professor Vineet Goyal joined the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department in 2010. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) from Carnegie Mellon Uni...

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Prof. Ramesh Johari

Prof. Ramesh JohariStanford UniversityTalk:Managing congestion in dynamic matching marketsBiography: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 th...

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Prof. Costis Maglaras

Prof. Costis MaglarasColumbia UniversityTalk:Social learning, social networks, and revenue managementBiography:Costis Maglaras is the 16th Dean of Columbia Business School, and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia University. Costis received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London, in 1990, and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford U...

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Prof. Karthik Natarajan

Prof. Karthik NatarajanSingapore University of Technology and DesignTalk:On Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Marginal Distribution Choice ModelsBiography:Karthik Natarajan received the Ph.D. degree from the Singapore-MIT Alliance Program, National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2004.,He is currently an Associate Professor with the Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, Singapore Uni...

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Prof. J. George Shanthikumar

Prof. J. George ShanthikumarProfessor, Purdue UniversityTalk: Analytics of Information in Operations ManagementBiography: Professor Shanthikumar joined the Krannert faculty in 2009. Prior to coming to Purdue, he was a Chancellor's Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in integrated interdisciplinary deci...

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Prof. Peng Sun

Prof. Peng SunDuke UniversityTalk:Inducing Environmental Disclosures: A Dynamic Mechanism Design ApproachBiography:Peng Sun is a J.B. Fuqua Professor in the Decision Sciences area at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He researches mathematical theories and models for resource allocation decisions under uncertainty, and incentive issues in dynamic environments. His work spans a rang...

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Prof. Jiheng Zhang

Prof. Jiheng ZhangHong Kong University of Science and TechnologyTalk:Managing customer service chat systems with general service and patience time distributionsBiography:Professor Jiheng Zhang is the Department Head of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics (IEDA) of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).  Prof. Zhang joined IEDA as an Assistant Professor in 2009, an...

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Prof. Y. Karen Zheng

Prof. Y. Karen ZhengMIT Sloan School of ManagementTalk:When Do Consumers Reciprocate Firms' Social Responsibility Efforts?Biography:Yanchong (Karen) Zheng is the George M. Bunker Professor and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research studies fundamental and emerging operations management (OM) problems with a behavior-centric, data-drive...

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