Research Group & Mentoring

Prospective students

I am always excited to hear from prospective students who are interested in my research and eager to explore new ideas in the field. If you are passionate about machine learning and online decision making for digital marketplaces, I encourage you to apply to the Operations Research Center (ORC) here and list my name in your application. After you get admitted to MIT, please reach out to me directly.

Current postdoctoral researchers

• Suho Shin, joint postdoctoral researcher with Amin Saberi at Stanford University.

Current Ph.D. students

• Alireza Danaei, (MIT – OR Center), 09/2025-present, Advisee
• Yan Dai, (MIT – OR Center), 09/2024-present, Advisee (co-advised with Patrick Jaillet)
• Sourav Sahoo, (MIT – OR Center), 09/2023-present, Advisee
• Rigel Galgana (MIT – OR Center), 09/2022-present, Advisee

Alumni and former mentees

• Qinyi Chen (Ph.D., MIT Operations Research Center), 2020–2025. Advisee.

• Aaron Woldamanuel Wubshet (MIT LGO), 2023–2025. Advisee (co-advised with Duane Boning).

• Omid Sadeghi, (Postdoctoral Researcher), 2024, First position: Lead Research Scientist at 84.51°

• Jason Cheuk Nam Liang, (Ph.D. at MIT – OR Center), 2018 - 2023, Advisee (co-advised with Patrick Jaillet), First position: Quantitative Researcher at Citadel

• Fransisca Susan (Ph.D. at MIT – OR Center), 2019 - 2023, Advisee, First position: Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma

• Mahsa Derakhshan (University of Maryland), Mentee and Co-author, First position: Assistant Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University

• Jon Schneider (Princeton University), Mentee and Co-author, First position: Google Research

• Hedyeh Beyhaghi (Cornell University), Mentee and Co-author, First position: postdoctoral research fellow at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC) and Northwestern University

• Ololade O Olaleye, (MIT – LGO), Advisee (co-advised with Duane Boning)

• Stanislav Slavov (MS at MIT – ORC), 2020-2022, Advisee, First position: Quantitative Researcher at Man Numeric

• Felix Dumont (MIT – LGO), Advisee, First position: Data Scientist at Oliver Wyman

• Bidusha Poudyal (MIT – LGO), (Winner of the 2020 best MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) thesis award), Advisee (co-advised with Duane Boning), First position: Product Manager at Google