Current Students

Xinyi Zhao

PhD student, Stern OM, 2017

  • PhD student in the NYU Stern OM PhD program, 2017-present
  • B.S. in Management Science from Tsinghua University, 2016
  • Co-advised with Prof. Wenqiang Xaio
  • Area: Supply chain financing, machine learning, demand estimation

Sandeep Chitla

PhD student, Stern OM, 2019

  • PhD student in the NYU Stern OM PhD program, 2019-present
  • B.Tech. in Mech. Engg. from IIT Madras, 2016

Alumni

Dmitry Mitrofanov

Assistant Professor at Boston College Carroll School of Mgmt., 2020-

  • First position: Assistant Professor at Boston College Carroll School of Mgmt., 2020-
  • Ph.D. in Business Administration, NYU Stern, 2020
  • Dissertation title: Choice-based demand models for emerging applications in retail and online platform operations
  • Second Place, MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2019
  • Finalist, IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Competition, 2019

Apostolos Filippas

Assistant Professor of Info, Tech, & Ops, Fordham University, 2019-

  • First position: Assistant Professor at Steven's Institute of Tech., 2018-2019
  • Current position: Assistant Professor at Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, 2019-
  • Ph.D. in Business Administration, NYU Stern, 2018
  • Dissertation title: Pricing, Mediating, and Learning in the Sharing Economy, 2018
  • Co-advised with Prof. Arun Sundararajan and Prof. John Horton

Ashwin Venkataraman

Assistant Professor of OM, UT Dallas, 2019

  • First positions:
    • Assistant Professor of OM, UT Dallas, 2019
    • Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard IQSS, 2018-2019
  • M.S. and PhD in Computer Science, NYU Courant, 2018
  • Dissertation title: Rethinking Customer Segmentation and Demand Learning in the Presence of Sparse, Diverse, and Large-scale Data, 2018
  • Co-advised with Prof. Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
  • George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (joint-second)

Antoine Désir

Assistant Professor at Tech. and OM, 2018

  • First position: Assistant Professor at Tech. and OM, 2018
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Google, NYC, 2017-2018
  • Ph.D. in IEOR, Columbia University, 2017
  • Primarily advised by Prof. Vineet Goyal
  • 2018 INFORMS RM&P Section Dissertation Award

Current Students

Dmitry Mitrofanov

- PhD student in the NYU Stern OM PhD program, 2014-2020 (expected)

- Assistant Professor at Boston College Carroll School of Mgmt., Sep 2020

- B.S. & M.S. in Applied Math and Phy., Moscow Institute of Phy. & Tech., 2013

- Area: machine learning, personalization, sharing economy

Xinyi Zhao

- PhD student in the NYU Stern OM PhD program, 2017-present

- B.S. in Management Science from Tsinghua University, 2016

- co-advised with Prof. Wenqiang Xaio

- Area: Supply chain financing, machine learning, demand estimation

Sandeep Chitla

- PhD student in the NYU Stern OM PhD program, 2019-present

- B.Tech. in Mech. Engg. from IIT Madras, 2016

Alumni

Dmitry Mitrofanov

- PhD student in the NYU Stern OM PhD program, 2014-2020 (expected)

- Assistant Professor at Boston College Carroll School of Mgmt., Sep 2020

- B.S. & M.S. in Applied Math and Phy., Moscow Institute of Phy. & Tech., 2013

- Area: machine learning, personalization, sharing economy

Ashwin Venkatarman

- First position: Assistant Professor of OM, UT Dallas, 2019

- Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard IQSS, 2018-2019

- M.S. and PhD in Computer Science, NYU Courant, 2018

- Dissertation: Rethinking Customer Segmentation and Demand Learning in the Presence of Sparse, Diverse, and Large-scale Data, 2018

- co-advised with Prof. Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

- George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (joint-second)

Apostolos Filippas

- First position: Assistant Professor at Steven's Institute of Tech., 2018

- Ph.D. in Business Administration, NYU Stern, 2018

- Dissertation: Pricing, Mediating, and Learning in the Sharing Economy, 2018

- co-advised with Prof. Arun Sundararajan and Prof. John Horton

Antoine Désir

- First position: Assistant Professor at Tech. and OM, 2018

- Postdoctoral Researcher at Google, NYC, 2017-2018

- Ph.D. in IEOR, Columbia University, 2017

- primarily advised by Prof. Vineet Goyal

- 2018 INFORMS RM&P Section Dissertation Award