The Workshop on "Experimentation for Decision-Making", co-hosted by the Decision, Risk and Operations Division and the Deming Center for Operational Innovation and Excellence at Columbia Business School, is a high-impact forum designed to foster collaboration between academic researchers and industry practitioners. This intensive, one-day event brings together the operations community and industry leaders to discuss complex problems and collaborate on real-world solutions.
Academic participants get a firsthand look at the daily operational challenges faced by corporations, public organizations, and NGOs. Simultaneously, industry professionals gain access to cutting-edge research and tools that they can apply directly to their work.
May 2026
Friday, May 1st, 2026
Geffen Hall
Plenary Speakers:
- Nell Thomas, Shopify
- Nathan Kallus, Cornell/Netflix
- Ron Berman, Wharton
Sessions:
Field Experiments:
- Dante Donati
- Zhichen Chen
- Ali Goli
- Hyesoo Lee
- Canberk Ucel
Experimentation in Complex Environments:
- Winston Chou
- Kevin Lee
- Jaume Vives-i-Bastida
- Tobias Huelden
- Chonghuan Wang
- Eaman Jahani
Leveraging Data Availability:
- Renyu (Philip) Zhang
- Lihua Lei
- Mengjie (Magie) Cheng
- Ben Levine
Beyond Estimation: Experiments for Downstream Decisions:
- Roman Garnett
- Isaac Scheinfeld
- Tu Ni
- Brian St. Thomas
Emerging Topics:
- Anna Matlin
- Joel Persson
- Grace (Jiarui) Fan
- Jerry Lin
- Jingyan Wang
Posters:
- Omar Bennouna
- Hongyu Chen
- Nicolás Ferrari-Ortiz
- Stefan Hut
- Seungwoo Kim
- Yu-Shiou (Willy) Lin
- Michael Lindon
- Mo Liu
- Robin Na
- Tobias Nowacki
- Tomoya Sasaki
- Eric Schwartz
- Alp Sungu
- Zhe Wang
- Xintong Yu
- Renyu (Philip) Zhang
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