2020-2021

Various events planned by the Department of Operations and Decision Technologies in 2020–2021 that support professional development, provide networking opportunities and enrich educational experiences for our students and faculty.

Please contact odt@indiana.edu with any questions or for additional information.

Spring 2021
Date/Time	Event Title and Speakers
March 5, 2-2:30pm	Inventory Record Inaccuracy Explains Price Rigidity in Perishables Ioannis (Yannis) Stamatopoulos, Assistant Professor, UT-Austin
March 5, 2:45-3:15pm	Preserving User Privacy Through Ephemeral Sharing Design: A Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment in the Online Dating Context Nina Huang, Associate Professor, University of Houston
March 12, 2-2:30pm	Optimization of Distribution Network Configuration for Pediatric Vaccines Zahra Azadi, Assistant Professor, University of Miami
March 12, 2:45-3:15pm	Resilience in the Storm: Adaptive Robo-Advisors Outperform Human Investors during the COVID-19 Financial Market Turmoil Chewei Liu, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
March 19, 2-2:30pm	Title TBA Jonathan Helm, Associate Professor, Indiana University
March 19, 2:45-3:15pm	Information Provision in Two-Sided Platforms: Optimizing for Supply Wenchang Zhang, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
March 26, 2-2:30pm	Agency or Wholesale? The Role of Retail Pass-Through Amy Pan, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
March 26, 2:45-3:15pm	Right Contest at the Right Time? How Visiting Delay Affects Submission Behavior in Crowdsourcing Contests Brian Lee, Assistant Professor, Penn State University
April 2, 2-2:30pm	Improving Patient Transfer Protocols for Regional Stroke Networks Beste Kucukyazici, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
April 2, 2:45-3:15pm	Title TBA Victor Benjamin, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
April 9, 2-2:30pm	Collaborative Care for Mental and Physical Health Sandeep Rath, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
April 9, 2:45-3:15pm	Omni-Channel Retailing with Consumer Fairness Concern Wenxin Xu, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
April 16, 2-2:30pm	Diamonds in the Rough: Leveraging Click Data to Spotlight Underrated Products Sajad Modaresi, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
April 16, 2:45-3:15pm	Regulating Professional Players in Peer-to-Peer Markets: Evidence from Airbnb Zaiyan Wei, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
April 23, 2-2:30pm	Driving in a Man’s World: Intra-occupational Gender Segregation in the Trucking Industry Alex Scott, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
April 23, 2:45-3:15pm	Interpretable Recommender System with Heterogeneous Information: A Geometric Deep Learning Perspective Yan Leng, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
April 30, 2-2:30pm	Delay Information in Virtual Queues: A Large Scale Field Experiment on a Ridesharing Platform Qiuping Yu, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
April 30, 2:45-3:15pm	Preference Elicitation for Participatory Budgeting Gerdus Benade, Assistant Professor, Boston University
May 7, 2-2:30pm	Customer Behavioral Feedback in Queueing Systems Sergey Naumov, Assistant Professor, Penn State University
May 7, 2:45-3:15pm	Title TBA Kyung Sun (Melissa) Rhee, Assistant Professor, University of Florida

Date/Time	Event Title and Speakers
August 28 2-2:30pm	Risk-Sharing Agreements for New Medical Treatments Ozge Yapar, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
August 28 2:45-3:15pm	The Impact of Sponsored Listings on Online Marketplaces: Evidence from a Large-scale Field Experiment Siddhartha Sharma, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
September 4 2-2:30pm	Net-Metered Distributed Renewable Energy: A Peril for Utilities? Nur Sunar, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina
September 4 2:45-3:15pm	To Brush or Not to Brush: Product Rankings, Consumer Search and Fake Orders Luyi Yang, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
September 11 2-2:30pm	Digital Privacy Ruslan Momot, Assistant Professor, HEC Paris
September 11 2:45-3:15pm	Do You Really Know If It’s True? How Asking Users to Rate Stories Affects Belief in Fake News on Social Media Tricia Moravec, Assistant Professor, UT Austin
September 18 2-2:30pm	How Subsidies Affect Asymmetric Procurement Auctions: Comparing Experimental Results to Theory Joel Wooten, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
September 18 2:45-3:15pm	Imitate, Innovate on Your Own or Listen to Your Customers? The Case of Mobile Apps Ashish Agarwal, Associate Professor, UT-Austin
September 25 2-2:30pm	Pick-up, Delivery, or Both? An Online Grocer’s Optimal Fulfillment Models Chloe Glaeser, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina
September 25 2:45-3:15pm	Does Scarcity Affect Environmental Performance? Evidence from Manufacturing Facilities in Texas Suvrat Dhanorkar, Assistant Professor, Penn State University
October 2 2-2:30pm	Online-Exclusive or Hybrid? Channel Merchandising Strategies for Ship-to-Store Implementation Necati Ertekin, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
October 2 2:45-3:15pm	An Empirical Study of Food Waste in US Food Bank Luv Sharma, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
October 9 2-2:30pm	Managing Judicial Delays in a Resource-Constrained Setting: The Supreme Court of India Nitin Bakshi, Associate Professor, University of Utah
October 9 2:45-3:15pm	Small Business Preference Programs for R&D Contracts in Public Sector Procurement: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government Anant Mishra, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
October 16 2-2:30pm	Learning from Clickstream Data in Online Retail Bharadwaj Kadiyala, Assistant Professor, University of Utah
October 16 2:45-3:15pm	Relevance or Profits? Cost-Regulated Recommender System Design in Digital Streaming Services Shawn (Xinxue) Qu, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
October 23 2-2:30pm	Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with Fixed Ordering Cost and Incomplete Demand Information Yining Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
October 23 2:45-3:15pm	TBA Dylan Walker, Assistant Professor, Boston University
October 30 2-2:30pm	Designing Reward Structure for Crowdfunding Campaign Manpreet Hora, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
October 30 2:45-3:15pm	Scoring a Touchdown with Variable Pricing: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the NFL Ticket Markets Necati Tereyagoglu, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
November 6 2-2:30pm	Doing Less to Do More? Optimal Service to Portfolio of Non-Profits that Serve Distressed Individuals Moravid Rahmani, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
November 6 2:45-3:15pm	Using Predictive Analytics to Reduce Uncertainty in Enterprise Risk Management Hossein Ghasemkani, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
November 13 2-2:30pm	Does Leader Disability Status Improve Operational Outcomes of Workers with Disabilities? An Empirical Analysis in an Apparel Context Sriram Narayaman, Professor, Kesseler Family Endowed Faculty Fellow of Supply Chain Management, Michigan State University
November 13 2:45-3:15pm	TBD Donghyuk Shin, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
November 20 2-2:30pm	Hypertension Management: A Value of Information Perspective Vedat Verter, John H. McConnel Endowed Chair Professor & Chairperson, Michigan State University
November 20 2:45-3:15pm	Trade-In or Sell in My P2P-Marketplace: A Game-Theoretic-Analysis of Profit and Environmental Impact Emre M. Demirezen, Assistant Professor, University of Florida

Fall 2020

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