Research

Publications

  • Alizamir, S.,  de Vericourt, F. and  Sun, P. (2022) Search under Accumulated Pressure, Operations Research, 70(3), pp. 1393 – 1409.

  • Alizamir, S.,  Chen, N.,  Kim, S. and  Manshadi, V. (2021) Impact of Network Structure on New Service Pricing, Mathematics of Operations Research, accepted.

  • Eshragh, A.,  Alizamir, S.,  Howley, P. and  Stojanovski, E. (2020) Modeling the Dynamics of the COVID-19 Population in Australia: A Probabilistic Analysis, PLoS ONE, 15(10): e0240153.

  • MacNeill, A.,  Hopf, H.,  Khanuja, A.,  Alizamir, S.,  Bilec, M.,  Eckelman, M.,  Hernandez, L.,  McGain, F.,  Simonsen, K.,  Thiel, C.,  Young, S.,  Lagasse, R. and  Sherman, J. (2020) A Call for Medical Device Transformation: Toward a Circular Economy, Health Affairs, 39(12), pp. 2088 – 2097.

  • Alizamir, S.,  de Vericourt, F. and  Wang, S. (2020) Warning against Recurring Risks: An Information Design Approach, Management Science, 66(10), pp. 4612 – 4629.

    • This paper was covered in “Controlling The Coronavirus Is Not A Medical Problem”, Forbes Magazine, March 2020.
    • This paper was covered in “Why the WHO Was Afraid of Crying Pandemic”, Yale Insights, March 2020.
    • This paper was the winner of Best Paper Award in Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management Track of POM Society, 2018.

  • Alizamir, S.,  Iravani, F. and  Mamani, H. (2018) An Analysis of Price vs. Revenue Protection: Government Subsidies in the Agriculture Industry, Management Science, 65(1), pp. 32-49.

    • This paper was a finalist for the INFORMS M&SOM Society Award for Management Science Journal Best Paper in Operations Management, 2022.

  • Alizamir, S.,  de Vericourt, F. and  Sun, P. (2016) Efficient Feed-In-Tariff Policies for Renewable Energy Technologies, Operations Research, 64(1), pp. 52-66.
    • This paper was the runner up for the 2019 ENRE (Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section of INFORMS) Best Publication Award in Environment and Sustainability.
    • This paper was featured in the OR Forum in March 2016 by Professor Edieal Pinker.
    • The proposal of this paper was the winner of POMS College of Sustainable Operations Ph.D. Proposal Award Competition, 2012.

  • Alizamir, S.,  de Vericourt, F. and  Sun, P. (2013) Diagnostic Accuracy under Congestion, Management Science, 59(1), pp. 157-171.

    • This paper was a finalist for the INFORMS M&SOM Society Best Paper Award in Service Special Interest Group (SIG), 2016.

Working Papers

  • The Impact of Climate Change: An Empirical Analysis of Smart Thermostat Data, under review at Management Science (2022) with M. Blair, and S. Wang.

  • On the Financial Inclusion and Sustainability Benefits of Blockchain Adoption in Agriculture, second round of major revision at M&SOM (2022) with B. Kalkanci, and F. Iravani.

    • This paper was covered in “Blockchain Technology Can Help Consumers Tip Farmers—But Should It?”, Yale Insights, August 2021.

  • Two-Sided Subsidies for Complementary Products: The Case of Electric Vehicles, reject & resubmit at Management Science (2022) with R. Tang, and M. Blair.

  • Competing to Discover Compliance Violations: Self-Inspections and Enforcement Policies, working paper  (2021) with S. Kim, and Y. Shi.

  • Electricity Pricing with Limited Consumer Response: A Rational Inattention Approach, working paper  (2021) with F. Farajbakhsh, and S. Wang.

  • Capacity Investment in Wind Farms: The Role of Subsidy Policies, working paper  (2021) with S. Yucel.

Book Chapter

  • Alizamir, S.,  Kim, S. and  Muthulingam, S. (2020) Compliance as Operations Management, Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, Benjamin van Rooij and D. Daniel Sokol (Eds.), Cambridge, University Press.

Other Publications

  • Alizamir, S. (2009) Monotonic Optimization, Encyclopedia of Optimization, C.A. Floudas and P.M. Pardalos (Eds.), Springer, pp. 2316 — 2323.

  • Kundakcioglu, O.E. and  Alizamir, S. (2009) Generalized Assignment Problem, Encyclopedia of Optimization, C.A. Floudas and P.M. Pardalos (Eds.), Springer, pp. 1153 — 1162.

  •  Alizamir, S.,  Rebennack, S. and  Pardalos, P.M. (2008) Improving the Neighborhood Selection Strategy in Simulated Annealing using Optimal Stopping Problem, Global Optimization: Focus on Simulated Annealing, Cher Ming Tan (Ed.), I-Tech Education and Publication, pp. 363 — 382.