IORA Seminar Series

Hamsa Bastani is an Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on developing novel machine learning algorithms for data-driven decision-making, with applications to healthcare operations, social good, and revenue management. She designs methods for sequential decision-making, transfer learning and human-in-the-loop analytics. Her applied work uses […]

Van-Anh Truong joined the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at the Columbia University in 2010. She received a Bachelor's degree from University of Waterloo in Mathematics in 2002, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Operations Research in 2007. Before coming to Columbia, she was a quantitative associate at Credit Suisse, and a quantitative researcher at […]

Yilun Chen is an assistant professor in the School of Data Science at CUHK Shenzhen (currently on leave), and a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia Business School. He obtained a PhD in Operations Research at Cornell University in 2021. Yilun’s research interest lies broadly in applied probability, with a specific focus on decision-making under uncertainty and […]

Kimon Drakopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations at USC Marshall School of Business, where he researches complex networked systems, control of contagion, information design and information economics. During the Summer of 2020 he served as the Chief Data Scientist of the Greek National COVID-19 Taskforce and Data Science and Operations Advisor to the Greek […]

Junyu Zhang is an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management (ISEM), National University of Singapore. Before joining NUS, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2020. And he received his B.Sc. degree from […]