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15
Dec
Preference Learning from (Ranked) Choices under a Mallows-Type Model
2:00 pm 3:30 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0302, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Yifan Feng, Assistant Professor, NUS Business School, Timothy Chan, Professor, Industrial Engineering Canada Research Chair in Novel Optimization and Analytics in Health Associate Director, Data Sciences Institute (DSI) Director, Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering (CARTE), University of Toronto
12
Dec
Asymptotic Optimality of Open-Loop Policies in Lost-Sales Inventory Models with Stochastic Lead Times
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0302, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Xingyu Bai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
07
Dec
Combining a Smart Pricing Policy with a Simple Replenishment Policy: Managing Uncertainties in the Presence of Stochastic Purchase Returns
2:00 pm 3:30 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0302, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Alys Liang, University of Michigan
06
Dec
Randomized Robust Price Optimization
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0302, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Xinyi Guan, UCLA Anderson School of Management
04
Dec
Nonprogressive Diffusion on Social Networks: Approximation and Applications
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0302, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Yunduan Lin, University of California Berkeley
28
Nov
Improving Farmers’ Welfare via Digital Agricultural Platforms
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, I4-01-03 (Level 1, Seminar Room), 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
Y. Karen Zheng, George M. Bunker Professor, Associate Professor, Operations Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
27
Nov
Bidding under Budget Constraints: Data-Driven Algorithms and Equilibrium Analysis
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0302, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Mr. Rachitesh Kumar, Columbia University
24
Nov
Data-driven Decisions in Supply Chains: Contracts, Algorithms and Efficiency
10:00 am 11:30 am
Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Auditorium, , HSS 4-7, 1 Hon Sui Sen Drive, Singapore 117588 (Map)
Ms. Xiaoyue Yan, Cornell University
22
Nov
Brand-Name versus Generic Drugs: An Empirical Study on Health Outcomes of Generic Atorvastatin Usage
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0302, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Ms. Xinyu Liang, University of Michigan
20
Nov
Optimal No-Regret Learning in Repeated First-Price Auctions
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0302, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Zhou Zhengyuan, Assistant Professor, New York University Stern School of Business
17
Nov
How Valuable is your Data? Learning Newsvendor Decisions one Sample at a Time
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1-0305, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Mr. Omar Mouchtaki, Columbia University
06
Oct
Data driven bunker procurement planning: working with the maritime industry
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library, Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library, Seminar Room 4-7, 1 Hon Sui Sen Drive, Singapore 117588 (Map)
Mabel C. Chou, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Sun Qinghe, Assistant Professor, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies (LMS), PolyU Business School, Li Wei, Research Fellow, National University of Singapore's Institute of Operations Research and Analytics
22
Sep
Crowd-judging on Two-sided Platforms: An Analysis of In-group Bias
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, I4-01-03 (Level 1 Seminar Room), 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
S. Alex Yang, Associate Professor, London Business School
15
Sep
Last mile innovations: The case of the Locker Alliance Network
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0205 , 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Chung Piaw Teo, Provost’s Chair Professor in NUS Business School, Executive Director of the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (IORA), National University of Singapore, Quanmeng Wang, Research Fellow, Institute of Operations Research and Analytics
08
Sep
Globally-Consistent Rule-Based Summary-Explanations for Machine Learning Models: Application to Credit-Risk Evaluation
10:00 am 11:30 am
via Zoom
Yaron Shaposhnik, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester
25
Aug
Sample-Based Online Generalized Assignment Problem with Unknown Poisson Arrivals
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 03-07, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Zhenzhen Yan, Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
10
Aug
Empowering Businesses with Data, Analytics, and Automation
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0206, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Michelle Xiao Wu, Co-Director, Data Science Lab at MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
04
Aug
Budget Pacing in Repeated Auctions: Regret and Efficiency without Convergence
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1-0202, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Bar Light, Assistant Professor, Tel Aviv University's School of Mathematics
28
Apr
Sustainability in the fast fashion industry
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, I4-01-03 (Level 1, Seminar Room) , 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
Javad Nasiry, Professor, Operations Management; Director, Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI), Desautels Faculty of Management McGill University
31
Mar
Deep Learning Based Causal Inference for Large-Scale Combinatorial Experiments: Theory and Empirical Evidence
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, I4-01-03 (Level 1 Seminar Room) , 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
Zhang Renyu, Philip, Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
23
Mar
Search Delegation Policies for Compliance Enforcement
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, I4-01-03 (Level 1, Seminar Room), 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
Saed Alizamir, Associate Professor, Yale School of Management
17
Mar
Locally robust models for optimization under tail-based data imbalance
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, I4-01-03 (Level 1 Seminar Room), 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
Karthyek Murthy, Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology & Design
03
Mar
The Golden Revolving Door: Hedging through Hiring Government Officials
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, I4-01-03 (Level 1 Seminar Room), 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
Jing Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics CUHK Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong
10
Feb
Representing Random Utility Choice Models with Neural Networks
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, 01-03, 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
Dr Antoine Desir, INSEAD
07
Feb
Got (optimal) milk?
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ2 4-13A, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Professor Timothy Chan, University of Toronto
27
Jan
Collaborating with the World Food Program to alleviate acute malnutrition among children in Africa
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, Level 1, 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
Ville Satopää, Assistant Professor, Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD
20
Jan
Batching and Optimal Multi-stage Bipartite Allocations
10:00 am 11:30 am
Via Zoom
Yiding Feng
18
Jan
Food Subsidies at the Base-of-the-Pyramid: Take-up, Substitution Effects and Nutrition
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 5-4, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Alp Sungu
13
Jan
Behavior-Aware Queueing: When Strategic Customers Meet Strategic Servers
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 5-3, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Yueyang Zhong, PhD candidate in Operations Management University of Chicago Booth School of Business
05
Jan
Uncertainty and Complexity in Healthcare Operations: How Hospitals Weather the Perfect Storm
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0304, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Professor Sarv Devaraj, Fred V. Duda Professor of Management, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
14
Dec
The (Surprising) Rate Optimality of Greedy Procedures for Large-Scale Ranking and Selection
10:30 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0509, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
L. Jeff Hong, Professor at Fudan University
13
Dec
Dimensioning and Pricing of Shared Vehicle Networks
10:00 am 11:00 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0304, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Saif Benjaafar
09
Dec
Inference for Ranking Problems
2:00 pm 3:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 2-04, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Xingyuan Fang, Ethan, Assistant Professor at Duke University
06
Dec
Revenue Management with Heterogeneous Resources
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, BIZ1 0204, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Mika Sumida
25
Nov
Constant Regret Re-solving Heuristics for Revenue Management Problems
10:00 am 11:30 am
Institute of Data Science, Innovation 4.0, TBA, 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Map)
He Wang
11
Nov
Constructing Quantiles via Forecast Errors: Theory and Empirical Evidence
10:00 am 11:30 am
NUS Business School, Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library, HSS 4-5, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Assistant Professor Long Zhao, National University of Singapore
04
Nov
Postgraduate program applications: simultaneous search, sequential outcomes, and reservation fees
10:00 am 11:30 am
Via Zoom
Professor Chen Ying-Ju, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
23
Jun
Traceability Technology Adoption in Supply Chain Networks
10:30 am 12:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 03-05, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Philippe Blaettchen, Assistant Professor in Management Analytics, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) City, University of London
09
Jun
Shared-ride Efficiency of Ride-hailing Platforms
11:00 am 12:00 pm
NUS Business School, Mochtar Riady Building, 03-07, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245 (Map)
Terry Taylor, Milton W. Terrill Chaired Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
22
Feb
The (Surprising) Rate Optimality of Greedy Procedures for Large-Scale Ranking and Selection
8:13 pm 9:00 pm
Shaw Foundation Alumni House, , Clove and Lemongrass Room Level 2, 11 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119244 (Map)