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 |
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| 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 |
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| Mar 4 12:00-1:00 pm BC104 |
Omer Karaduman Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
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| Mar 11 12:00-1:00 pm BC104 |
Hummy Song Wharton, University of Pennsylvania |
Fall 2025
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Sep 24 12:00-1:00 pm BC130 |
Yuyan Wang Stanford Graduate School of Business |
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| 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
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| Oct 8 12:00-1:00 pm BC130 |
Nur Kaynar Cornell University |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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
Jann Spiess
Associate Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
Ömer Karaduman
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology
Yue Hu
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
Mohsen Bayati
The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Professor of Operations, Information & Technology