Ongoing Work

• 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

• 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

• Dynamic Run-Out Pricing for Perishable Goods

Publications

• 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
  • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 28(4), 1112–1132, 2026
• ⭐ Finalist, M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition, 2025

• 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
• ⭐ Finalist, MSOM Student Paper Competition 2026 (winner TBA)

• Prophet Inequalities with Cancellation Costs

  • With Rad Niazadeh, Pranav Nuti, and Jan Vondrák
  • Minor Revision at Operations Research
  • In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2026)
  • In Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2024)
  • Companion note, Bounded Best Buyers: Prophet Inequalities Revisited, Easy Peasy Workshop (EC 2026)
• ⭐ Finalist, APS Student Paper Prize 2026 (winner TBA)

• 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

Patents

• Machine Learning Based Overbooking Limit Optimization

  • With Andrew Vakhutinsky, Jason G. Bryant, Kirby Bosch, Zuxuan Huai, Boro Petrovic, Jorge Luis Rivero Perez, and Natalia Kosilova
  • US Patent Application No. 19/079,626, 2026