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Assaf Zeevi

Kravis Professor of Business
Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Assaf Zeevi
Contact
Office: 1115 Kravis
Phone: (212) 8549678
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
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Curriculum Vitae

Assaf Zeevi is the Kravis Professor of Business at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Operations Research, Statistics, and Machine Learning. In particular, he has been developing theory and algorithms for reinforcement learning, Bandit problems, stochastic optimization,  statistical learning and stochastic networks. Application domains include online retail platforms, healthcare analytics, dynamic pricing engines, recommender systems, and social learning in online marketplaces. 

Assaf received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Cum Laude) from the Technion, in Israel, and subsequently his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He spent time as a visitor at Stanford University, the Technion and Tel Aviv University. He is the recipient of several teaching and research awards including a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, an IBM Faculty Award, Google Research Award, as well as several best paper awards including the 2019 Lanchester Prize.  Assaf has recently served a term as Vice Dean at Columbia Business School and Editor-in-Chief of Stochastic Systems (the flagship journal of INFORMS' Applied Probability Society). He also serves on various other editorial boards and program committees in the Operations Research and Machine Learning communities, as well as scientific advisory boards for startup companies in the high technology sector.

Education
BSc, Technion; MS, 1997; MS, Stanford; PhD, 2001
Joined CBS
2001

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  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Journal Article
Besbes, Omar, Yonatan Gur, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Optimal Exploration-Exploitation in a Multi-armed Bandit Problem with Non-stationary Rewards.”
Stochastic Systems
vol.
9
, (December 01, 2019):
319
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337
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar, Yonatan Gur, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Optimization in Online Content Recommendation Services: Beyond Click-Through-Rates.”
Manufacturing & Service Operations
vol.
18
, (January 28, 2016):
15
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33
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Assaf Zeevi
. “On the (Surprising) Sufficiency of Linear Models for Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning.”
Management Science
vol.
61
, (April 01, 2015):
723
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739
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar, Yonatan Gur, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Non-Stationary Stochastic Optimization.”
Operations Research
vol.
63
, (January 01, 2015):
1227
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1244
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Assaf Zeevi
. “Blind Network Revenue Management.”
Operations Research
vol.
60
, (January 01, 2012):
1537
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1550
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Journal Article
Zeevi, Assaf and Alexander Goldenshluger
. “A Note on Performance Limitations in Bandit Problems with Side Information.”
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
vol.
57
, (March 01, 2011):
1707
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1713
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Journal Article
Allon, Gad and Assaf Zeevi
. “A Note on the Relationship Among Capacity, Pricing, and Inventory in a Make-to-Stock System.”
Production and Operations Management
vol.
20
, (January 01, 2011):
143
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151
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Assaf Zeevi
. “On the minimax complexity of pricing in a changing environment.”
Operations Research
vol.
59
, (January 01, 2011):
66
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79
.
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Journal Article
Broadie, Mark, Deniz Cicek, and Assaf Zeevi
. “General Bounds and Finite-Time Improvement for the Kiefer-Wolfowitz Stochastic Approximation Algorithm.”
Operations Research
vol.
59
, (January 01, 2011):
1211
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1224
.
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Assaf Zeevi
. “Testing the Validity of a Demand Model: An Operations Perspective.”
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
vol.
12
, (January 01, 2010):
162
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183
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Journal Article
Zeevi, Assaf, Achal Bassambo, and Ramandeep Randhawa
. “Capacity sizing under parameter uncertainty: Safety staffing principles revisited.”
Management Science
vol.
56
, (January 01, 2010):
1668
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1686
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Journal Article
Besbes, Omar and Assaf Zeevi
. “Dynamic Pricing Without Knowing the Demand Function: Risk Bounds and Near-Optimal Algorithms.”
Operations Research
vol.
57
, (November 01, 2009):
1407
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1420
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Journal Article
Bassamboo, Achal and Assaf Zeevi
. “On a data-driven method for staffing large call centers.”
Operations Research
vol.
57
, (June 01, 2009):
417
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726
.
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Journal Article
Bassamboo, Achal, J. Richard Harrison, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Pointwise stationary fluid models for stochastic processing networks.”
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
vol.
11
, (January 01, 2009):
70
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89
.
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Journal Article
Goldenshluger, Alexander and Assaf Zeevi
. “Woodroofe's one-armed bandit problem revisited.”
Annals of Applied Probability
vol.
19
, (January 01, 2009):
1603
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1633
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Journal Article
Glynn, Peter and Assaf Zeevi
. “Bounding stationary expectations of Markov processes.”
IMS Collections
vol.
4
, (January 01, 2008):
195
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214
.
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Journal Article
Goldenshluger, Alexander, A. Juditsky, A. Tsybakov, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Change-point estimation from indirect observations. 1. Minimax complexity.”
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques
vol.
44
, (January 01, 2008):
787
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818
.
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Journal Article
Goldenshluger, Alexander, A. Juditsky, A. Tsybakov, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Change-point estimation from indirect observations. 2. Adaptation.”
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques
vol.
44
, (January 01, 2008):
819
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836
.
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Journal Article
Bassamboo, Achal, Sandeep Juneja, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Portfolio credit risk with extremal dependence: Asymptotic analysis and efficient simulation.”
Operations Research
vol.
56
, (January 01, 2008):
593
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606
.
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Journal Article
Bassamboo, Achal, Sandeep Juneja, and Assaf Zeevi
. “On the inefficiency of state-independent importance sampling in the presence of heavy tails.”
Operations Research Letters
vol.
35
, (March 01, 2007):
251
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260
.
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Journal Article
Goldenshluger, Alexander and Assaf Zeevi
. “Recovering convex boundaries from blurred and noisy observations.”
The Annals of Statistics
vol.
34
, (June 01, 2006):
1375
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1394
.
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Journal Article
Goldenshluger, Alexander, A. Tsybakov, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Optimal change-point estimation from indirect observations.”
The Annals of Statistics
vol.
34
, (February 01, 2006):
350
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372
.
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Journal Article
Gamarnik, David and Assaf Zeevi
. “Validity of heavy traffic steady-state approximations in generalized Jackson networks.”
The Annals of Applied Probability
vol.
16
, (February 01, 2006):
56
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90
.
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Journal Article
Bassamboo, Achal, J. Richard Harrison, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Design and control of a large call center: Asymptotic analysis of an LP-based method.”
Operations Research
vol.
54
, (January 01, 2006):
419
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435
.
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Journal Article
Maglaras, Costis and Assaf Zeevi
. “Pricing and Design of Differential Services: Approximate Analysis and Structural Insights.”
Operations Research
vol.
53
, no.
2
(March 01, 2005):
242
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262
.
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Journal Article
Bassamboo, Achal, J. Richard Harrison, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Dynamic routing and admission control in high-volume service systems: Asymptotic analysis via multi-scale fluid limits.”
Queueing Systems
vol.
51
, (January 01, 2005):
249
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285
.
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Journal Article
Harrison, J. Richard and Assaf Zeevi
. “A Method for Staffing Large Call Centers Based on Stochastic Fluid Models.”
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
vol.
7
, (January 01, 2005):
20
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36
.
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Journal Article
Goldenshluger, Alexander and Assaf Zeevi
. “The Hough transform estimator.”
The Annals of Statistics
vol.
32
, (October 01, 2004):
1908
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1932
.
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Journal Article
Zeevi, Assaf
. “Recurrence properties of autoregressive processes with super-heavy-tailed innovations.”
Journal of Applied Probability
vol.
41
, (September 01, 2004):
639
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653
.
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Journal Article
Zeevi, Assaf and Peter Glynn
. “Estimating tail decay for stationary sequences via extreme values.”
Advances in Applied Probability
vol.
36
, (March 01, 2004):
198
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226
.
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Journal Article
Harrison, J. Richard and Assaf Zeevi
. “Dynamic scheduling of a multiclass queue in the Halfin-Whitt heavy traffic regime.”
Operations Research
vol.
52
, (January 01, 2004):
243
-
257
.
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Journal Article
Maglaras, Costis and Assaf Zeevi
. “Diffusion Approximations for a Markovian Multi-Class Service System with 'Guaranteed' and 'Best-Effort' Service Levels.”
Mathematics of Operations Research
vol.
29
, no.
4
(January 01, 2004):
786
-
813
.
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Journal Article
Maglaras, Costis and Assaf Zeevi
. “Pricing and Capacity Sizing for Systems with Shared Resources: Scaling Relations and Approximate Solutions.”
Management Science
vol.
49
, (January 01, 2003):
1018
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38
.
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Journal Article
Waks, Edo, Assaf Zeevi , and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
. “Security of quantum key distribution with entangled photons against individual attacks.”
Physical Review A
vol.
65
, (January 01, 2002):
052310-1
-
16
.
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Journal Article
Goldenshluger, Alexander and Assaf Zeevi
. “Nonasymptotic bounds for autoregressive time series modeling.”
Annals of Statistics
vol.
29
, (April 01, 2001):
417
-
444
.
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Journal Article
Glynn, Peter and Assaf Zeevi
. “On the maximum workload of a queue fed by fractional Brownian motion.”
The Annals of Applied Probability
vol.
10
, (January 01, 2000):
1084
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1099
.
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Journal Article
Zeevi, Assaf, Ronny Meir, and V. Maiorov
. “Error bounds for functional approximation and estimation using mixtures of experts.”
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
vol.
44
, (May 01, 1998):
1010
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1025
.
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Journal Article
Zeevi, Assaf and Ronny Meir
. “Density estimation through convex combinations of densities: Approximation and estimation bounds.”
Neural Networks
vol.
10
, (January 01, 1997):
99
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109
.
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Working Paper
Federgruen, Awi, Santiago R. Balseiro, and Assaf Zeevi
. An integrated model for capacity planning and dynamic control in call center networks with general SLAs. May 01, 2011.
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Working Paper
Maglaras, Costis, John Yao, and Assaf Zeevi
. Revenue maximization in a queueing system offering differentiated services. February 15, 2011.
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Working Paper
Zeevi, Assaf and Alexander Goldenshluger
. A Linear Response Bandit Problem. November 15, 2010.
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Working Paper
Zeevi, Assaf and Denis Saure
. Optimal dynamic assortment planning. February 15, 2010.
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Working Paper
Zeevi, Assaf, N. Bora Keskin, and J. Richard Harrison
. Bayesian dynamic pricing policies: Learning and earning under a binary prior distribution. January 14, 2010.
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Working Paper
Federgruen, Awi and Assaf Zeevi
. Assessing financial product solutions to America's retirement income planning: A closer look at annuity lifetime withdrawal guarantees and target date mutual funds. January 01, 2010.
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Chapter
Zeevi, Assaf and Philippe Rigolet
. “Nonparametric bandits with covariates.” In
Proceedings of the 23rd conference on learning theory (COLT)
, edited by
A. T. Kalai and M. Mohri
,
54
-
66
.
New York
:
Association for Computing Machinery
, 2010.
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Chapter
Zeevi, Assaf
. “Revenue Maximization Through Smart Inventory Management in Reservation-Based Online Advertising.” In
The Twelfth Workshop on Mathematical Performance Modeling and Analysis
,
New York
:
ACM SIGMETRICS
, 2010.
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Chapter
Zeevi, Assaf and Ana Radovanovic
. “Revenue Maximization in Reservation-based Online Advertising Through Dynamic Inventory Management.” In
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
, edited by
R. Srikant and P. G. Voulgaris
,
1502
-
1509
.
Allerton, IL
:
IEEE
, 2010.
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Chapter
Mashal, Roy, Marco Naldi, and Assaf Zeevi
. “Extreme events and multi-name credit derivatives.” In
Credit Derivatives: The Definitive Guide
, edited by
Jon Gregory
,
313
-
338
.
New York
:
Risk Books
, 2003.
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Chapter
Glynn, Peter and Assaf Zeevi
. “Estimating tail probabilities in queues via extremal statistics.” In
Analysis of Communication Networks: Call Centres, Traffic and Performance
, edited by
David R. McDonald and Stephen R. E. Turner
,
135
-
158
.
Providence
:
American Mathematical Society
, 2000.
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Article

Assaf Zeevi Named School’s Vice Dean for Research

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PhD student Denis Saure wins 2009 MSOM prize

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Assaf Zeevi Is The Recipient Of A Faculty Early Career Development Award

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Deconstructing the Price of Diamonds

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I wish to thank the funding agencies and grants listed below for their support. I also wish to thank the research funds provided by the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.

 

National Science Foundation

IGERT: "From Data to Solutions: A New Ph.D. Program in Transformational Data \& Information Sciences Research and Innovation'' [PI, Julia HIrschberg, Computer Science, Columbia University], 7/2012-6/2017
CCF: "Promoting secondary spectrum markets via profitability-driven
methods and algorithms,'' [w/ David Starobinski and Murat
Alanyali, Boston University] 6/2010 - 6-2014

DMII: "CAREER: Design and Analysis of Differentiated Services," 6/2005-6/2010

Israel-US Binational Science Foundation:

Grant #2010021 "Minimax procedures for sequential estimation and optimization,'' [with A. Goldenshluger, Haifa U] 10/2011 -- 10/2015

Grant #2006075 "Nonparametric Estimation and Sequential Adaptive Allocation," [with A. Goldenshluger, Haifa U] 10/2007 -- 10/2011
 

IBM Faculty Award: (2008-2009)
Optimal Design of Global Service Delivery Operations''

 

Google Research Award: (2009-2010)
Robust and Decentralized Algorithms for Reservation-based On-line Advertisement''

 

Additional funding was provided by the following institutes and foundations:

The Caesarea Rothschild Foundation

The Center for Excellence in e-Business (CEBIZ)

The Center for International Business Education and Research(CIBER)

The Chazen Institute.

Vashist Avadhanula (graduated 2018, co-advised with S. Agrawal and V. Goyal)
Current Position: Head of Data Science, Retail Media Platform, Moloco
Thesis title: The MNL-Bandit Problem: Theory and Applications;

Dongwook Shin (graduated 2017, co-advised with M. Broadie)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Business School, HKUST (Hong Kong)
Thesis title: Tractable Algorithms for Dynamic Learning and Pricing with Online Product Reviews

Oren Anava (graduated 2016, co-advised with S. Mannor and E. Hazan)
Current position: Research staff member, Voleon
Thesis title: Machine Learning and Temporal Data

John Yao (graduated 2015, co-advised with C. Maglaras)
Current position: Assistant Professor, IE department, University of Miami
Thesis title:Asymptotic Analysis of Service Systems with Congestion Sensitive Customers

Yonatan Gur (graduated 2013, co-advised with O. Besbes)
Current position: Assistant Professor, GSB, Stanford University
Thesis title: Sequential Optimization in a Changing Environment: Theory and  Application to Content Recommendation Systems

Bora Keskin (graduated 2012, co-advised with J.M Harrison)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Booth GSB, Chicago University
Thesis title: Learning and earning; Algorithms and Analysis 

Denis Saure (graduated 2011, co-advised with O. Besbes)
Current position: Associate Professor, ISE Department, University of Chile
Thesis title: Essays in Consumer Choice-based Assortment Planning 

Deniz Cicek ( graduated 20, co-advised with M. Broadie)
First position: Barclay's capital
Thesis title: Topics in Stochastic Approximation

Itay Gurvich ( graduated 2008, co-advised with C. Maglaras and W. Whitt )
Current position: Associate Professor, ORIE, Cornell University
Thesis title: Staffing and Control of Many Server Service Systems

Omar Besbes (graduated 2007)
Current position: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
Thesis title: Revenue Management under Model Uncertainty: Theory and Methods

Zhen Wu (graduated 2006)
First position: Research Associate, CSFB
Thesis title: Essays on Portfolio Credit Risk

Achal Bassamboo (graduated 2005, co-advised with Mike Harrison )
Current position: Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Thesis title: Pointwise Stationary Fluid Models for the Design and Control of Stochastic Processing Networks

Gad Allon (graduated 2005, primary adviser Awi Federgruen)
Current position: Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Thesis title: Competition in Service Industries

Roy Mashal (graduated 2003)
First position: Vice President, Lehman Brothers
Thesis title: Inferring Dependencies Between Financial Assets with Applications to Multiname Credit Derivatives

 

Editorial Boards:

  • Editor in Chief Stochastic Systems , 2014 -- 2017
  • Departmental Editor Management Science, 2009 -- 2014.
  • Associate Editor Operations Research, 2006 -- 2012, 2017 -- present
  • Associate Editor Mathematics of Operations Research, 2005 -- 2010, 2017 -- present
  • Associate Editor Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2004 -- 2006, and 2007 -- 2010
  • Associate Editor Management Science, 2004 -- 2006

 

Prize committees:

  •   Lanchester Prize (INFORMS): 2006-2019 (chair 2018)
  •   Nicholson Prize (INFORMS): 2007-2009
  •   Erlang Prize (APS Society): 2010-2012
  •   Best Paper Award (APS Society): 2010-2012 (chair 2012)
     

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