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Hongyao Ma is an Assistant Professor of Business in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at Columbia Business School. Her research is situated at the interface of computer science, economics and operations, with a particular focus on market design. Hongyao completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Harvard University in 2019, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Uber and then Caltech during 2019-2020. She obtained her M.S. in 2014 at Harvard, and B.E. in 2012 at Xi'an Jiaotong University, both in Electrical Engineering.
Miklos Sarvary is the Carson Family Professor of Business and the faculty lead for the Media and Technology Program at Columbia Business School. Miklos' broad research agenda focuses on media and information marketing. His most recent papers study ad blocking, online marketplace design and content bundling on social media. Previously, he worked on user-generated content, online/mobile advertising and media and telecommunications competition.
Omid Malekan is the the author of several books, including Re-Architecting Trust: the Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms as well as The Story of the Blockchain: A Beginner’s Guide to the Technology That Nobody Understands. An eight-year veteran of the crypto industry, his writing on this and related topics has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Spectator Magazine, and his own blog on Medium.
Laura Doval is the Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Business in the Economics Division at Columbia Business School. She is a microeconomic theorist working in the areas of mechanism design, market design, and information economics. Her work has been published in Econometrica and the Journal of Political Economy.
Professor Doval is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (Industrial Organization), and an Associate Editor at Theoretical Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and Economic Theory.
Hannah Li is an Assistant Professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on developing data science methods for social systems--marketplaces, education systems, and online platforms. Her research combines techniques from operations research, statistics, and economics to develop theoretical insights for practically motivated problems. She informs her work with industry experience, working for and collaborating with large online platforms.
Bo Cowgill is an Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School, a research affiliate at CESifo, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His elective, People Analytics and Strategy, won The Aspen Institute's 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award. He was also named to Poets and Quants’ 2020 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.
Kinshuk Jerath is the Arthur F. Burns Chair of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Professor of Business in the Marketing division at Columbia Business School. He is also the Chair of the Marketing Division. His research is in technology-enabled marketing, primarily in online advertising, online and offline retailing, sales force management and customer management. His research has appeared in top-tier marketing and operations management journals, such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science and Operations Research.
Santiago R. Balseiro is an Associate Professor of Business at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He is the Research Director of the Deming Center and a part-time research scientist at Google Research. He teaches the core MBA classes Business Analytics and Operations Management, and the core Ph.D. class Foundations of Optimization.
Professor Jian Li joined Columbia Business School in 2021. She graduated with a PhD from the Joint Program of Financial Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research interest lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. She is particularly interested in how financial intermediaries affect the real economy and how different types of financial institutions can contribute to financial instability.
Malek Ben Sliman is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School in the Marketing Department. Malek’s research interests lie in the application of machine learning, computer vision and NLP tools in the context of art valuation, social networks, marketing analytics and online retailing. As a practitioner, he had previously worked at Sotheby’s where he built models to track the evolution of artists’ prestige over time and to automatically predict the price of art during auctions.
Omar Besbes's primary research interests are in the area of data-driven decision-making with a focus on applications in e-commerce, pricing and revenue management, online advertising, operations management and general service systems. His research has been recognized by multiple prizes, including the 2019 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, the 2017 M&SOM society Young Scholar Prize, the 2013 M&SOM best paper award and the 2012 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section prize. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science and Operations Research.
