{"id":187,"date":"2026-06-10T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:09:06","slug":"advising","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/advising\/","title":{"rendered":"Advising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Ph.D. Advisor:\u00a0<a class=\"ublue\" href=\"https:\/\/scottrodilitz.com\/\">Scott Rodilitz<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>, Yale, Ph.D. in Operations, 2021.\u00a0<em>Placement: Assistant Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management (Honorable Mention, INFORMS George Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2021)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D. Co-advisor:\u00a0<a class=\"ublue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.akshaya-suresh.com\/\">Akshaya Suresh<\/a><\/strong>, Yale, Ph.D. candidate in Operations (primary advisor: Ed Kaplan)<br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D. Advisor:\u00a0<a class=\"ublue\" href=\"https:\/\/soonbong-lee.github.io\/\">Soonbong Lee<\/a><\/strong>, Yale, Ph.D. student in Operations<br \/>\n<strong>Postdoc Advisor:\u00a0<a class=\"ublue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ydfeng.us\/\">Yiding Feng<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(jointly with R. Niazadeh)<br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D. Thesis Committee &amp; Coauthor: Virgile Galle<\/strong>, MIT, Ph.D. in Operations Research, 2018<br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D. Thesis Committee &amp; Coauthor: Dawsen Hwang<\/strong>, MIT, Ph.D. in EECS, 2016<br \/>\n<strong>Mentor &amp; Coauthor: Maximilien Burq<\/strong>, MIT, Ph.D. in Operations Research, 2019<br \/>\n<strong>Mentor &amp; Coauthor: Alex Wei<\/strong>, UC Berkeley, Ph.D. student in CS<br \/>\n<strong>Coauthor: Jerry Anunrojwong<\/strong>, Columbia GSB, Ph.D. student in DRO<br \/>\n<strong>Coauthor: Mahsa Derakhshan<\/strong>, University of Maryland, Ph.D. in CS, 2021<br \/>\n<strong>Coauthor: Setareh Borjian<\/strong>, MIT, M.S. in Operations Research, 2016<br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Cheng Hua<\/strong>, Yale, Ph.D. in Operations, 2020<br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Tong Wang<\/strong>, Yale, Ph.D. in CEE, 2022<br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Michael Blair<\/strong>, Yale, Ph.D. in Operations, 2023<br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Hannah Wang<\/strong>, Yale, Ph.D. student in YSE<br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D. Thesis Committee: Yen-Shao Chen<\/strong>, Yale, Ph.D. candidate in Operations[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ph.D. Advisor:\u00a0Scott Rodilitz\u00a0, Yale, Ph.D. in Operations, 2021.\u00a0Placement: Assistant Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management (Honorable Mention, INFORMS George Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2021) Ph.D. Co-advisor:\u00a0Akshaya Suresh, Yale, Ph.D. candidate in Operations (primary advisor: Ed Kaplan) Ph.D. Advisor:\u00a0Soonbong Lee, Yale, Ph.D. student in Operations Postdoc Advisor:\u00a0Yiding Feng\u00a0(jointly with R. Niazadeh) Ph.D. Thesis Committee &amp; Coauthor: Virgile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/vahidehmanshadi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}