Santiago Balseiro

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.

His research develops novel methodological approaches that combine dynamic optimization, stochastic modeling, and game theory to address fundamental problems in the digital economy. His work tackles central problems in internet advertising while making methodological contributions to the area of large-scale sequential decision-making in the face of uncertainty and dynamic optimization with incentives. His research has been recognized by numerous awards, including the 2023 Donald P. Gaver Early Career Award, the 2014 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, and the 2023 Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize; and numerous best paper awards, including the 2022 Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize and the 2019 Revenue Management and Pricing Section Student Paper Prize. He serves as an associate editor for the INFORMS flagship journals Management Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Professor Balseiro graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business in 2013. Before joining Columbia, he was on the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.