Professor Bimpikis' research agenda broadly explores the following two themes: (i) Strategic interactions in networks and their implications on firms' operational decision making; (ii) The design and operations of online marketplaces with a particular emphasis on optimizing information disclosure policies.
Kostas Bimpikis is an associate professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He received his PhD in Operations Research at MIT working with Daron Acemoglu and Asu Ozdaglar. Before coming to Stanford, he spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Microsoft Research New England.
The course is aimed at students who already have a background or demonstrated aptitude for quantitative analysis, and thus are comfortable with a more rapid coverage of the topics, in more depth and breadth, than in OIT 245.
This year-long course takes a hands-on approach to learning about conducting research in Operations, Information and Technology. It will cover a broad spectrum of cutting-edge research in OIT from conceiving an idea to formulating a research...
In recent years network models have been used in different application domains, ranging from social networks to supply chains and from financial networks to transportation networks. Examples of existing work in networks include exploring how to...
This course provides basic skills in quantitative modeling. The objective is to familiarize students with the main steps in an analytical approach to business decision making: constructing an abstract model for a relevant business problem,...