Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

Find seminars on operations, information, and technology that are open to the Stanford University community.

OIT seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. PT, unless otherwise indicated.

Winter 2026

Date & Time Speaker Title
Jan 14
12:00-1:00 pm
BC104
Vishan Nigam 
MIT
Specialization by design: the unequal geographic effects of modular product design
Jan 16
12:00-1:00 pm
C106
Tianyu Wang
Columbia University
Optimizer’s Information Criterion: Dissecting and Correcting Bias in Data-Driven Optimization
Jan 21
12:00-1:00 pm
BC104
Wenxin Zhang
Columbia University
Distributed Load Balancing for Large-Scale AI Systems joint paper with Robert Kleinberg, Vahab Mirrokni, Balasubramanian Sivian, Bartek Wydrowski
Jan 23
12:00-1:00 pm
C106
Wentao Weng
MIT
Scheduling with Uncertain Holding Costs and its Application to Content Moderation
Feb 25
12:00-1:00 pm
BC104
Jean Pauphilet 
London Business School
 
Mar 4
12:00-1:00 pm
BC104
Omer Karaduman
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
 
Mar 11
12:00-1:00 pm
BC104
Hummy Song
Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
 

Fall 2025

Date & Time Speaker Title
Sep 24
12:00-1:00 pm
BC130
Yuyan Wang
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Joint paper with Cheenar Banerjee, Samer Chucri and Minmin Chen
Sep 29
12:00-1:00 pm
BC104
Nicos Savva
London Business School
Is Continuity All We Need? A Modeling Approach to Evaluating Relational Continuity in Primary Care
Oct 8
12:00-1:00 pm
BC130
Nur Kaynar
Cornell University
Joint paper with Vishal Gaur and Ziwei Zhu
Oct 15
12:00-1:00 pm
BC130
Divya Singhvi
New York University

joint paper with Nishit Goyal, Alex Akira Okuno and Somya Singhvi
Nov 5
12:00-1:00 pm
BC130
Negin (Nikki) Golrezaei
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
joint paper with Sourav Sahoo
Nov 12
12:00-1:00 pm
BC130
Sytske Wijnsma
University of California, Berkeley
Smarter Products, Shorter Lifespans? The Environmental and Social Cost of Embedded Products
Nov 19
12:00-1:00 pm
BC130
Yue Hu
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Joint paper with Lin Zang, Ricky Roet-Green and Shujing Sung
Dec 2
12:00-1:00 pm
BC104
Ramandeep S. Randhawa
USC Marshall School of Business
Service Operations for Justice-On-Time: A Data-Driven Queueing Approach Joint paper with Nitin Bakshi and Jeunghyun Kim
Dec 10
12:00-1:00 pm
P107
Itai Gurvich
Northwestern University 
Deterministic Benchmarks to Inform Sequential Decisions Using Lookahead
Joint paper with Daniel Loredo Duran and Jan A. Mieghem 

Seminar Organizers

Associate Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Professor of Operations, Information & Technology