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Platform/Policy Design for Social Good
Offsetting Carbon with Lemons: Adverse Selection and Certification in the Voluntary Carbon Market , with F. Monachou, and I. Morgenstern, Working paper, 2026.Who to Offer, and When: Redesigning Feeding America’s Real-Time Donation Tool , with S. Lee, and D. Saban, Working paper, 2025.Why the Rooney Rule Fumbles: Limitations of Interview-stage Diversity Interventions in Labor Markets , with S. Farajollahzadeh, S. Lee, and F. Monachou, Major revision at Operations Research , 2025.
Conference version accepted to The 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2025
Oral presentation at The 5th ACM Conference on Equity & Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, & Optimization (EAAMO) , 2025
Dynamic Matching with Post-Allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement , with K. Bansak, S. Lee, R. Niazadeh, and E. Paulson, Management Science , 2025.
First place, MSOM Best Student Paper Prize, 2024 – Entrant: S. Lee First place, Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize (awarded by INFORMS Auctions and Market Design Section), 2024 – Entrant: S. Lee Honorable mention, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 2025 – Entrant: S. Lee Finalist, Service Science Best Student Paper Competition, 2025 – Entrant: S. Lee Conference version accepted to The 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2024
Extended abstract in The fifth annual Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) , 2024
Oral presentation at The 4th ACM Conference on Equity & Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, & Optimization (EAAMO) , 2024
Media: “Using Operations Research to Improve the Refugee Resettlement Process. ” Yale Insights
Redesigning VolunteerMatch’s Ranking Algorithm: Toward More Equitable Access to Volunteers , with S. Rodilitz, D. Saban, and A. Suresh, Management Science , 2025.
Subsumes “Analytics for Societal Impact: Improving Access to Volunteers on VolunteerMatch”
Honorable mention, Doing Good with Good OR Student Paper Competition, 2023 – Entrant: A. Suresh Winner, INFORMS Public Sector OR Best Video Award, 2023 here )Finalist, Revenue Management & Pricing Practice Award, 2024 Finalist, INFORMS Public Sector OR Best Paper Award, 2024 Finalist, Service Science Best Student Paper Competition, 2024 – Entrant: A. Suresh Media: “A Better Algorithm Can Bring Volunteers to More Organizations. ” Yale Insights (covered on YaleNews)
Accepted for presentation at the MSOM Sustainable Operations SIG , 2024
Markovian Search with Socially Aware Constraints , with M. R. Aminian and R. Niazadeh, Management Science , 2025.
Subsumes “Fair Markovian Search”
Third place, INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Award, 2023 – Entrant: M. R. Aminian Extended abstract in The fifth annual Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) , 2024
Oral presentation at The 4th ACM Conference on Equity & Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, & Optimization (EAAMO) , 2024
Media: “Algorithms and AI Can Make Hiring More Diverse. ” Chicago Booth Review
Online Algorithms for Matching Platforms with Multi-Channel Traffic , with S. Rodilitz, D. Saban, and A. Suresh, Management Science , 2024.
Commitment on Volunteer Crowdsourcing Platforms: Implications for Growth and Engagement , with I. Lo, A. Shameli, and S. Rodilitz, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management , 2024.
Fair Dynamic Rationing , with R. Niazadeh and S. Rodilitz, Management Science , 2023.
First place, Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize, 2021 (Awarded by INFORMS Auctions and Market Design Section) – Entrant: R. Niazadeh Conference version appeared in The 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2021
Extended abstract appeared in The second annual Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) , 2021
Spotlight presentation at INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing (RMP) , 2021
Oral presentation at The 1st ACM Conference on Equity & Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, & Optimization (EAAMO) , 2021
Accepted for presentation at the MSOM Service SIG , 2022 (10 selected out of 84)
Media: “How to Ration Scarce Resources Fairly. ” Chicago Booth Review
Media: “How to Distribute Scarce Medical Supplies in a Pandemic—and Do It Fairly. ” Yale Insights
Media: “Distributing Aid Fairly Amid Scarcity and Unknown Demand. ” UCLA Anderson Review
Information Design for Congested Social Services: Optimal Need-Based Persuasion , with J. Anunrojwong and K. Iyer, Management Science , 2023.
Conference version appeared in The 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2020
Accepted for oral presentation at The 4th Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) , 2020
Accepted for presentation at the MSOM Service SIG , 2021 (10 selected out of 100)
Featured Article: “Balancing Needs: Information Design Mitigates Congestion in Social Services. ” (Management Science Review)
Online Policies for Efficient Volunteer Crowdsourcing , with S. Rodilitz, Management Science , 2022.
Second place, MSOM Best Student Paper Prize, 2021 – Entrant: S. Rodilitz Third place, Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize, 2020 (Awarded by INFORMS Auctions and Market Design Section – Entrant: S. Rodilitz) Finalist, INFORMS Public Sector OR Best Paper Award, 2020 Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Award, 2021 – Entrant: S. Rodilitz Conference version appeared in The 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2020
Accepted for oral presentation at The 4th Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) , 2020
Extended abstract appeared in The second annual Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) , 2021
Media: “How Better Mobile Crowdsourcing Can Help Combat Food Waste and Feed the Hungry. ” Yale Insights (also covered on O.R. and Analytics in the News )
On Matching and Thickness in Heterogeneous Dynamic Markets , with I. Ashlagi, M. Burq, and P. Jaillet, Operations Research , 2018. | Presentation Video @ Simons
The effect of match-run frequencies on the number of transplants and waiting times in kidney exchange , with I. Ashlagi, A. Bingaman*, M. Burq, D. Gamarnik, C. Murphey*, A. E. Roth, M. L. Melcher*, and M. A. Rees*, American Journal of Transplantation , 2017.
* designates medical collaborators
Kidney exchange in dynamic sparse heterogenous pools , with I. Ashlagi, and P. Jaillet, Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2013.
Online/Matching Platforms
How Much Should a Conversational Recommender System Converse? , with A. Kumar and A. Tumu, Working paper, 2026.Robust Dynamic Staffing with Predictions , with Y. Feng, R. Niazadeh, and S. Neyshabouri, Minor revision at Operations Research , 2026.
Accepted for presentation at the MSOM Service SIG , 2024
Conference version accepted to The 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2025
Designing Approximately Optimal Search on Matching Platforms , with N. Immorlica, B. Lucier, and A. Wei, Management Science , 2022.
Third place, Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize, 2021 (Awarded by INFORMS Auctions and Market Design Section) – Entrant: A. Wei Conference version appeared in The 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2021
Learning Product Rankings Robust to Fake Users , with N. Golrezaei, J. Schneider, and S. Sekar, Operations Research , 2022.
Winner, Best OM Paper in Operations Research Award, 2025 Finalist, INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Competition, 2022 Winner, INFORMS MIF Paper Competition, 2023 Conference version appeared in The 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2021
Product Ranking on Online Platforms , with M. Derakhshan, N. Golrezaei, and V. Mirrokni, Management Science , 2020. | Presentation Video @ Google
Conference version appeared in The 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) , 2020
Accepted for presentation at the MSOM Service SIG , 2018 (8 selected out of 66)
Online Resource Allocation under Partially Predictable Demand , with D. Hwang and P. Jaillet, Operations Research , 2020. | Presentation Video @ BIRSOnline stochastic matching: Online actions based on offline statistics , with S. Oveis Gharan, A. Saberi, Mathematics of Operations Research , 2012.
Featured in Mathematics of Operations Research 50th Anniversary Editors’ List of 50 Influential Papers, 2026 Conference version appeared in The 22nd ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) , 2011
Social Platforms/Networks
Information Inundation on Platforms and Implications , with G. Allon and K. Drakopoulos, Operations Research , 2020.
Diffusion in Random Networks: Impact of Degree Distribution , with S. Misra and S. Rodilitz, Operations Research , 2019.
Extended abstract appeared in The 13th Workshop on the Economics Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon) , 2018
Impact of Network Structure on New Service Pricing , with S. Alizamir, N. Chen, and S. Kim, Mathematics of Operations Research , 2021.Dynamics of prisoner’s dilemma and the evolution of cooperation on networks , with A. Saberi, Proceedings of the 3rd Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS) , 2012.
Extended abstract appeared in The 6th Workshop on the Economics Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon) , 2011
Supermodular Network Games , with R. Johari, The 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing , 2009.
Other Topics
The Stochastic Container Relocation Problem , with V. Galle, S. Borjian Boroujeni, C. Barnhart, and P. Jaillet, Transportation Science , 2018.
Algorithms and experimental results are available here
An average-case asymptotic analysis of the Container Relocation Problem , with V. Galle, S. Borjian Boroujeni, C. Barnhart, and P. Jaillet, Operations Research Letters , 2016.Managing Relocation and Delay in Container Terminals with Flexible Service Policies , with S. Borjian Boroujeni, C. Barnhart, and P. Jaillet.Distributed Node Placement Algorithms for Constructing Well-Connected Sensor Networks , with A. J. Friend and A. Saberi, The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) , 2012.Efficient, Fully Local Algorithms for CIOQ Switches , with A. Firoozshahian, A. Goel, and B. Prabhakar, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) , 2007.High-fidelity and Time-driven Simulation of Large Wireless Networks with Parallel Processing , with H. Lee and D. C. Cox, IEEE Communications Magazine , 2009.High-Fidelity Simulation of Mobile Cellular Systems with Integrated Resource Allocation and Adaptive Antennas , with H. Lee, D. C. Cox, and N. K. Cheung, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) , 2007.
