Send us a text Evelyn Xiao-Yue Gong is an Assistant Professor of OM at Tepper. She has a PhD from the ORC at MIT, where she was advised by David Simchi-Levi and Jim Orlin. She spent summers at Google Research, Microsoft, HelloFresh, and DE Shaw. Her main research pertains to AI for supply chain and sustainability. She also works on assortment optimization and data-driven decision making. In the first half of the episode, we discuss her journey from being a PhD student to an assistant profess...
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Send us a text Evelyn Xiao-Yue Gong is an Assistant Professor of OM at Tepper. She has a PhD from the ORC at MIT, where she was advised by David Simchi-Levi and Jim Orlin. She spent summers at Google Research, Microsoft, HelloFresh, and DE Shaw. Her main research pertains to AI for supply chain and sustainability. She also works on assortment optimization and data-driven decision making. In the first half of the episode, we discuss her journey from being a PhD student to an assistant profess...
Dr. Michael Hamilton: Pricing Loot Boxes and Opaque Goods
Optimizing You
50 minutes
2 years ago
Dr. Michael Hamilton: Pricing Loot Boxes and Opaque Goods
Send us a text Michael Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics and Operations at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business. He received his PhD in 2019 in OR from Columbia University advised by Adam Elmachtoub. Before that he studied math at Rutgers. He studies pricing, prescriptive analytics, and market design. We discuss how Michael decided to study OR, reasons why he enjoys his position as a professor, his research on pricing with Loot boxes and Opaque goods,...
Optimizing You
Send us a text Evelyn Xiao-Yue Gong is an Assistant Professor of OM at Tepper. She has a PhD from the ORC at MIT, where she was advised by David Simchi-Levi and Jim Orlin. She spent summers at Google Research, Microsoft, HelloFresh, and DE Shaw. Her main research pertains to AI for supply chain and sustainability. She also works on assortment optimization and data-driven decision making. In the first half of the episode, we discuss her journey from being a PhD student to an assistant profess...
