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 2024

Date & Time Speaker Title
Jan 17
12:00pm - 1:00pm
G102
Jose Blanchet
Stanford University
Making Good Decisions with Incorrect Models
Based on joint work with Jiajin Li, Sirui Lin, Markus Pelger, Greg Zanotti, and Xuhui Zhang
 
Jan 24
12:00pm - 1:00pm
C105
Mohsen Bayati
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Casual Message Passing: A Method for Experiments with Unknown and General Network Interference 
Jan 31
12:00pm - 1:00pm
C106
Beril Toktay
Georgia Tech, Scheller College of Business
 
Market Mechanisms for Waste Management 
Feb 07
12:00pm - 1:00pm
B400
Elisa Long
University of California, Los Angeles
Digital Footprints: Leveraging Smartphone Location Data to Analyze High-Stakes Decision-Making 
Feb 14
12:00pm - 1:00pm
E104
Luyi Yang
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Too Good to Go: Combating Food Waste with Surprise Clearance joint paper with Man Yu
Feb 21
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M109
Ozlem Ergun
Northeastern University, College of Engineering
Examining Resiliency in Pharmaceutical Drug Supply Chains Incorporating Stakeholder Behaviors
Mar 06
12:00pm - 1:00pm
C105
Park Sinchaisri
Hass School of Business, UC Berkeley
Improving Human Sequential Decision-Making with Reinforcement Learning
Mar 13
12:00pm - 1:00pm
BC332
Andrew Daw
University of Southern California
 
Asymmetries of Service: Interdependence and Synchronicity joint paper with Galit Yom-Tov 

Spring 2024

Date & Time Speaker Title
Apr 03
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBA
Elena Katok
University of Dallas
 
Apr 17
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBA
Sanjog Misra
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
 
Apr 24
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBA
Kyle R. Myers
Harvard Business School
 
May 01
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBA
Zhen Lian
Yale University
 
May 08
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBA
Nicola Secomandi
Rice University
 
May 22
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBA
IIan Lobel
New York University
 
May 29
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBA
Dorothee Honhon
The University of Texas at Dallas
 
Jun 05
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBA
Dan Iancu
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
 
 

Fall 2023

Date & Time Speaker Title
Sep 27
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Ellen Vitercik
Stanford University
Leveraging Reviews: Learning to Price with Buyer and Seller Uncertainty joint paper with Wenshuo Guo, Nika Haghtalab, and Kirthevasan Kandasamy
Oct 04
12:00pm - 1:00pm
BC104
Rahul Mazumder
MIT
Optimization lenses in learning combinatorial structures in statistical learning (
Oct 11
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Devavrat Shah
MIT EECS
On counterfactual inference with unobserved confounding via exponential family ( )
Oct 25
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Vishal Gaur
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
joint paper with Kashish Arora
Nov 01
12:00pm - 1:00pm
B400
Yuan Zhong
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Flexibility design for parallel processing systems ( )
Nov 08
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Vineet Goyal
Columbia University
MNL-Bandits in Non-stationary Environments joint work with Ayoub Foussoul and Varun Gupta
Nov 15
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Hongyao Ma
Columbia Business School 
Iterative Network Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms (
Nov 29
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Tinglong Dai
John Hopkins Carey Business School
Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Healthcare Workflows: Models and Insights ( )
Dec 05
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Fernando Bernstein
Duke University 
Data-Driven Population Tracking in Large Service Systems ( )
     

Seminar Organizers

Assistant Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology