I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in Management Science/ Operations Research at The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. My research advisors are René Caldentey and Rad Niazadeh.

I am interested in studying the interplay of Economics and Computer Science and enjoy looking at the real world problems using a mathematical lens. In particular, I am passionate about new paradigms in online resource allocation, matching in marketplace, and platform market design.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Before joining Booth, I did a master’s in Finance & Economics at London School of Economics, UK.

Talks

Non-Exclusive Notifications for Ride-Hailing at Lyft

• July 21–23 — RMP Conference, Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor
  Session details TBA
• July 14 — MSOM Conference, Harvard Business School, Boston
  Session TA12: Service - Ride-Hailing Dispatch and Repositioning | Hawes 302, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
• April 23 — Operations Management Rookiepalooza, Kellogg School of Management, Evanston
• March 27 — IOE-ISyE-MS&E Rising Stars Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ongoing Work

• Screening Gig-Economy Workers through Performance-Based Mechanisms

  • With René Caldentey and Gustavo Vulcano

• Steering Effort through Information Bundles

  • With René Caldentey and Ennio Stacchetti

• Non-Exclusive Notifications for Ride-Hailing at Lyft I: Single-Cycle Approximation Algorithms

  • With Rad Niazadeh, in collaboration with Lyft

• Non-Exclusive Notifications for Ride-Hailing at Lyft II: Simulations and Marketplace Analysis

  • With Rad Niazadeh, in collaboration with Lyft

• Data-Driven Pricing for Availability-Based Upgrades Under a Multiple Binary Choice Model with Copula

  • With Ovunc Yilmaz, Zifeng Zhao, Ruxian Wang and Andrew Vakhutinsky
  • Minor Revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
• ⭐ Finalist, M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition, 2025

Publications

• Online Job Assignment

  • With Yiding Feng, Ian Kash, and Rad Niazadeh
  • Major Revision at Operations Research
  • In Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2025)
  • Oral Presentation in MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG 2024

• A Stochastic Growth Model for Online Platforms

  • With René Caldentey
  • Major Revision at Management Science
  • In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2025)
• ⭐ Honorable Mention, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition 2025

• Prophet Inequalities with Cancellation Costs

  • With Rad Niazadeh, Pranav Nuti, and Jan Vondrák
  • Minor Revision at Operations Research
  • In Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2024)

• Online Matching with Cancellation Costs

  • With Yiding Feng and Rad Niazadeh
  • Major Revision at Operations Research
  • In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2023) appeared as “Online Resource Allocation with Buyback: Optimal Algorithms via Primal-Dual”

• Quantitative assessment can stabilize indirect reciprocity under imperfect information

  • With Laura Schmid, Christian Hilbe, and Krishnendu Chatterjee
  • Nature Communications 2023

• Circuit Imbalance Measures and Linear Programming

  • With Bento Natura and László Végh
  • Surveys in Combinatorics 2022