Vahideh Manshadi

Vahideh Manshadi is the Michael H. Jordan Professor of Operations at Yale School of Management and the Research Director for Operations Research at the Center for Algorithms, Data, & Market Design at Yale (CADMY). Her current research focuses on the operations of online and matching platforms, especially those with societal impact, including volunteer crowdsourcing, refugee resettlement, organ allocation, and information (news) platforms. She has collaborated with nationwide platform-based nonprofits, including Feeding America’s MealConnect, Food Rescue US , VolunteerMatch, and national kidney exchange programs, and often impacted the practice of these organizations.

Her research has been recognized with numerous awards across various INFORMS communities, including the Auctions and Market Design Rothkopf Prize (2020, 2021, 2024), the MSOM Best Student Paper Prize (2021, 2024), the Best OM Paper in Operations Research Award (2025), the Doing Good with Good OR Award (2023), the Public Sector OR Best Paper Award (finalist, 2020, 2024), and the Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award (finalist, 2024), among many others.

Professor Manshadi serves as an associate editor for Management Science and Operations Research, and as the vice president of the Auctions & Market Design section at INFORMS. She also contributes to the ACM SIGecom, having served as the Program Co-Chair of EAAMO ’23 and as the Track/Area/Tutorial Chair for EC and EAAMO. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, where she also received MS degrees in statistics and electrical engineering. Before joining Yale, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the MIT Operations Research Center.