Gabriel Weintraub

Professor, Operations, Information & Technology
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Gabriel Weintraub

The Amman Mineral Professor of Operations, Information & Technology

The Katherine and David deWilde Faculty Scholar for 2023–2024

Research Statement

Gabriel Weintraub’s research is in the areas of operations, management science, industrial organization, data science, and market design. Most recently, he has become particularly interested in studying the operations, optimization, and economics of digital platforms.

Research Interests

  • Management Science
  • Operations
  • Data Science
  • Online Platforms
  • Market Design
  • Industrial Organization

Bio

Weintraub is the Amman Mineral Professor of Operations, Information & Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds a PhD in management science and engineering and a MA in economics, both from Stanford University. His research is in the areas of data science, operations, management science, industrial organization, and market design. He is particularly interested in developing mathematical, computational, and econometric models to study the economics and the optimization of digital platforms. After obtaining his PhD at Stanford, he spent ten years as faculty at Columbia Business School. He is a recipient of the IFORS Prize for “Operations Research in Development 2002,” given every three years to the best application of operations research/management science in a developing country. He also received the MSOM Young Scholar Prize 2015 that “recognizes exceptional young researchers who have made outstanding contributions to scholarship in operations management.” He was part of the Chilean team that received the 2022 Edelman Award (Informs top prize for applied analytics) for using data and analytics to improve response strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has advised and worked with several online platforms.

Academic Degrees

  • PhD in Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2006
  • MA in Economics, Stanford University, 2005
  • Industrial Engineering Degree, University of Chile, 1999
  • BS in Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, 1997

Academic Appointments

  • The Amman Mineral Professor of Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2022–present
  • Professor, Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2021–22
  • Associate Professor, Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2016–21
  • Associate Professor of Business; Decision, Risk & Operations Division, Columbia Business School; 2015–16
  • Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business; Decision, Risk & Operations Division, Columbia Business School; 2013–15
  • Associate Professor; Decision, Risk, & Operations Division, Columbia Business School, 2010–12
  • Assistant Professor; Decision, Risk & Operations Division, Columbia Business School, 2006–10
  • Visiting Scholar; Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; 2006–07
  • Full-Time Instructor; Industrial Engineering Department, University of Chile; 1999–2001

Professional Experience

  • Adviser; AI+Catalyst, Reach Capital; August 2023–present
  • Senior Adviser, Outschool, 2022–present
  • Senior Adviser, Betterfly, 2021–present
  • Senior Adviser, Boam, Inc. (previously Feastfox), 2021–present
  • Senior Adviser, Feastfox, 2019–21
  • Advisory Board ad honorem, Start-Up Chile, 2016–21
  • Senior Adviser, Airbnb, 2018–20
  • Senior Adviser, AppNexus, 2018–19
  • Co-Investigator, joint project with Dirección ChileCompra funded by Fondef Chile, 2017–18
  • Chief Economist, AppNexus, 2016–18
  • Market Design Consultant, AppNexus, 2015–16
  • Co-Principal Investigator, joint project with Dirección ChileCompra funded by Chile-Columbia University Fund Grant, 2014
  • Project Lead, project funded by Dirección ChileCompra and Chazen Institute of International Business, 2011–12

Awards and Honors

  • Edelman Award: part of the Chilean team that received the 2022 Edelman Award (Informs top prize for applied analytics) for using data and analytics to improve response strategies to the COVID19 pandemic, 2022
  • 2nd place at RMP Jeff McGill Student Paper Award, Co-advisor of Hannah Li, 2021
  • Lacob Family Faculty Scholar, 2017–19
  • MSOM Young Scholar Prize, 2015
  • Finalist of the INFORMS George Dantzig Dissertation Award, Co-advisor of Daniela Saban, 2015
  • Second place M&SOM Student Paper Competition with the paper “Procurement Mechanisms for Differentiated Products”, advising Daniela Saban, 2015
  • Finalist INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition with the paper “Repeated Auctions with Budgets in Ad Exchanges: Approximations and Design”, co-advising Santiago Balseiro, 2014
  • Recipient of the INFORMS George Dantzig Dissertation Award, Co-advisor of Santiago Balseiro, 2014
  • Finalist M&SOM Student Paper Competition with the paper “Structural Estimation of a Large Scale Combinatorial Auction”, co-advising Sang Won Kim, 2012
  • Second Place INFORMS JFIG paper competition for the paper “An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Solving Large Scale Dynamic Oligopoly Models” (with V. Farias, and D. Saure), 2009
  • IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies) Prize for Operations Research in Development, 2002
  • Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship, 2001–02
  • Chilean “Presidential Fellowship” for graduate studies abroad (declined), 2001
  • Best Student Award of the 1999 class of the School of Engineering, University of Chile, 1999
  • Best Teaching Assistant Award, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Chile, 1998
  • Dean’s List, School of Engineering, University of Chile, 1993–99
  • University of Chile School of Engineering Fellowship, 1993

Publications

Journal Articles

Je-ok Choi, Daniela Saban, Gabriel Weintraub
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
March 2023 Vol. 25 Issue 2 Pages 613–630
L.J. Basso, M. Goic, M. Olivares, D. Sauré, C. Thraves, A. Carranza, Gabriel Weintraub, J. Covarrubias, C. Escobedo, N. Jara, A. Moreno, D. Arancibia, M. Fuenzalida, J.P. Uribe, F. Zuñiga, M. Zuñiga, M. O’Ryan, E. Santelices, J.P. Torres, M. Badal, M. Bozanic, S. Cancino, E. Lara, I. Neira
INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics
January 2023 Vol. 53 Issue 1 Pages 9–31
Ramesh Johari, Hannah Li, Inessa Liskovich, Gabriel Weintraub
Management Science
October 2022 Vol. 68 Issue 10 Pages 7065–7791
Hannah Li, Geng Zhao, Ramesh Johari, Gabriel Weintraub
Proceedings of The Web Conference 2022
April 2022
Aldo Carranza, Marcel Goic, Eduardo Lara, Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Weintraub, Julio Covarrubia, Cristian Escobedo, Natalia Jara, Leonardo J. Basso
Management Science
January 21, 2022 Vol. 68 Issue 3 Pages 1591–2376
Bar Light, Gabriel Weintraub
Operations Research
January 2022 Vol. 70 Issue 1 Pages 585–605
Dirk Bergemann, Francisco Castro, Gabriel Weintraub
Games and Economic Behavior
January 2022 Vol. 131 Pages 275–291
Daniela Saban, Gabriel Weintraub
Operations Research
May 2021 Vol. 69 Issue 3 Pages 683–1013
Dirk Bergemann, Francisco Castro, Gabriel Weintraub
Journal of Economic Theory
July 2020 Vol. 188
Santiago Balseiro, Omar Besbes, Gabriel Weintraub
Operations Research
May 2019 Vol. 67 Issue 3 Pages 711-730
Yonatan Gur, ‪Lijian Lu, Gabriel Weintraub
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
September 2017 Vol. 19 Issue 4 Pages 586-603
Bar Ifrach, Gabriel Weintraub
The Review of Economic Studies
July 2017 Vol. 84 Issue 3 Pages 1106-1150
Sang Won Kim, Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Weintraub
Management Science
October 8, 2016 Vol. 60 Issue 5 Pages 1180-1201
Santiago R. Balseiro, Omar Besbes, Gabriel Weintraub
Management Science
January 27, 2016 Vol. 61 Issue 4 Pages 864-884
Lanier Benkard, Przemyslaw Jeziorski, Gabriel Weintraub
The RAND Journal of Economics
October 2015 Vol. 46 Issue 4 Pages 671–708
Sachin Adlakha, Ramesh Johan, Gabriel Weintraub
Journal of Economic Theory
March 2015 Vol. 156 Pages 269-316
Paul Njoroge, Asuman Ozdaglar, Nicolás E. Stier-Moses, Gabriel Weintraub
Review of Network Economics
February 2014 Vol. 12 Issue 4 Pages 355-402
Vivek Farias, Denis Saure, Gabriel Weintraub
The RAND Journal of Economics
June 2012 Vol. 43 Issue 2 Pages 253-282
Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Weintraub, Rafael Epstein, Daniel Young
Management Science
April 28, 2012 Vol. 58 Issue 8 Pages 1458-1481
Dominic DiPalantino, Ramesh Johan, Gabriel Weintraub
Operations Research Letters
September 2011 Vol. 39 Issue 5 Pages 390-396
Gabriel Weintraub, Lanier Benkard, Ben Van Roy
Journal of Economic Theory
September 2011 Vol. 146 Issue 5 Pages 1965–1994
Gabriel Weintraub, Ramesh Johari, Benjamin Van Roy
Operations Research
September 2010 Vol. 58 Issue 5 Pages 1303-1317
Gabriel Weintraub, Lanier Benkard, Benjamin Van Roy
Operations Research
June 3, 2010 Vol. 58 Issue 4 Pages 1247–1265
Gabriel Weintraub, Lanier Benkard, Ben Van Roy
Econometrica
November 2008 Vol. 76 Issue 6 Pages 1375–1411
Rafael Epstein, Lysette Henriquez, Jaime Catalan, Gabriel Weintraub, Cristian Martinez, Francisco Espejo
International Transactions in Operational Research
November 2004 Vol. 11 Issue 6 Pages 593-612
Susana V. Mondschein, Gabriel Weintraub
Production and Operations Management
June 2003 Vol. 12 Issue 2 Pages 266-286
Rafael Epstein, Lysette Henriquez, Jaime Catalan, Gabriel Weintraub, Cristian Martinez
Interfaces
December 1, 2002 Vol. 32 Issue 6 Pages 1-14

Working Papers

M. Olivares, Daniela Saban, Gabriel Weintraub, E. Lara, P. Zanocco, P. Moreno April 2023
H. Li, R. Johari, I. Liskovich, R. Lobel, A. Murthy, Gabriel Weintraub 2023
Shumpei Goke, Gabriel Weintraub, Ralph Mastromonaco, Sam Seljan January 2022
C.L. Benkard, P. Jeziorski, Gabriel Weintraub 2019

Service to the Profession

Professional Society Affiliations

  • Informs
  • AEA
  • Econometric Society

Student Advising & Collaboration

  • Je-ok Choi, PhD 2023, ICME, Stanford, co-advised with Daniela Saban
  • Aldo Carranza, PhD 2023, ICME, Stanford University, primary advisor Susan Athey
  • Shumpei Goke, PhD 2022, Economics Department, Stanford University, primary advisor Brad Larsen. First position: Lyft DS.
  • Hannah Li, PhD 2022, Stanford University, co-advised with Ramesh Johari. First position: Post-Doc MIT CSAIL and Assistant Prof. Columbia DRO.
  • Bar Light, PhD 2021, Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford GSB, co-advised with Ramesh Johari. First position: Post-doc MSR and Tel-Aviv University Stats/OR
  • Francisco Castro, PhD 2019, Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School, co-advised with Omar Besbes and Ilan Lobel. First position: Post-doc Uber, Assistant Prof. UCLA Anderson
  • Eyal Levy, MSc 2017, Operations Management, University of Chile, co-advised with Marcelo Olivares. First position: Consultant IE University of Chile
  • Daniela Saban, PhD 2015, Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School, co-advised with Jay Sethuraman. First position: Assistant Prof., Stanford GSB
  • Lijian Lu, PhD 2016, Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School, co-advised with Awi Federgruen. First position: Goldman Sachs
  • Yonatan Gur, PhD 2014, Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School, primary advisors Omar Besbes and Assaf Zeevi. First position: Assistant Prof., Stanford GSB
  • Santiago Balseiro, PhD 2013, Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School, co-advised with Omar Besbes. First position: Assistant Prof., Duke Fuqua Business School
  • Sang Won Kim, PhD 2013, Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School, co-advised with Marcelo Olivares. First position: Assistant Prof., The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Bar Ifrach, PhD 2012, Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School, co-advised with Costis Maglaras. First position: Post-doc MS&E Stanford University
  • Denis Saure, PhD 2010, Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School, primary advisor Assaf Zeevi. First position: Assistant Prof. IE Pittsburg University
  • Sachin Adlakha, PhD 2010, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, primary advisors Andrea Goldsmith and Ramesh Johari. First position: Post-doc Caltech
  • Paul Njoroge, PhD 2010, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), MIT, primary advisor Asu Ozdaglar. First position: Corporate research Liberty Mutual
  • Daniel Yung, MSc 2009, Operations Management, University of Chile, co-advised with Marcelo Olivares and Rafael Epstein. First position: Consultant IE University of Chile

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