Associate Professor of Business Analytics and Operations
University of Pittsburgh School of Business
My research interests include revenue management and pricing, retail analytics, nonprofit operations, supply chain management, and the operations-marketing interface, with publications in leading journals including Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. My work has also been recognized with research, teaching, and service awards from Pitt Business and professional societies such as INFORMS, MSOM, and POMS.
Currently, I serve as the PhD Program Coordinator for the Business Analytics and Operations area and as a faculty board member at the Center for Supply Chain Management at Pitt Business. I received my Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and my M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and B.Sc. in Industrial Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology.
Highlights
A demand model can forecast well and still get the decision wrong. This paper combines demand decomposition with constrained regularization to keep pricing and assortment counterfactuals economically coherent while preserving predictive flexibility. Counterfactually Stable Demand Learning for Dynamic Assortments: Demand Decomposition and Constrained Regularization.
View working paperLaunch buzz cuts both ways: fashionability raises early appeal but accelerates obsolescence, so dynamic pricing can call for either more or less fashion-forward design depending on when demand arrives. When Fashion Fades: Designing Products Under Dynamic Pricing.
View working paperPayment reliability is energy access: targeted node support and carefully designed grace can prevent avoidable lockouts while protecting provider value. Last-Mile PAYGo Energy: Allocating Support Across Fragile Payment Nodes in Developing Economies.
View working paperCause marketing can serve as a competitive strategy, but it has to be the right kind. Are All Cause Contributions Created Equal? Operational and Competitive Implications of Transactional and Non-Transactional Cause Marketing.
View working paperCustomers need more protection, not less. Is Your Price Personalized? Alleviating Customer Concerns with Inventory Availability Information.
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