PhD Candidate @ MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Email: efata at mit dot edu

Hi! I am a PhD candidate in Controls, department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. I am also affiliated with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have the pleasure of being co-advised by Prof. David Simchi-Levi and Prof. Georgia Perakis.

My current research interests are in the areas of optimization algorithms and machine learning with applications to revenue management, pricing, and online marketplaces. Previously, I have conducted research in the areas of vehicle routing, multi-agent systems, graph-theoretic analysis of large-scale systems, and game theory.

Here is the link to my Google scholar page.

Papers Accepted or Under Review

• Learning Optimal Online Advertising Portfolios with Periodic Budgets With L. Baardman, A. Pani, and G. Perakis Under review, revision requested Finalist in George Nicholson Student Paper Competition (2018) Finalist in IBM Best Student Paper Award (2019)
• A Game of Public Facilities on Networks With S. Alamdari Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2018)
• A Notion of Robustness in Complex Networks With H. Zhang, and S. Sundaram IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS 2015)
• Persistent Monitoring in Discrete Environments: Minimizing the Maximum Weighted Latency Between Observations With S. Alamdari, and S. Smith The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR 2014) Preliminary conference version appeared in the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2013)
• Distributed Dominating Sets on Grids With S. Smith, and S. Sundaram American Control Conference (ACC 2013)

Preprints and Works in Progress

• Multi-stage and Multi-customer Assortment Optimization with Inventory Constraints With W. Ma, and D. Simchi-Levi
• Performance Guarantees for Revenue Maximization in Online Type Matching With W. Ma, and D. Simchi-Levi
• Dynamic Creative Content Optimization in Online Display Advertising With L. Baardman, A. Pani, and G. Perakis
• Comparison of Classical and Nonlinear Models for Short-Term Electricity Price Prediction With I. Kadota, and I. Schneider