Mohammad Zhalechian

Department: Operations & Decision Technologies

Campus: Bloomington

Areas of Expertise

Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics, Data-Driven Optimization, Sequential Decision-Making, Healthcare, Service Operations Management

Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 2023 – present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2022 – 2023

2026 INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF) Paper Competition (Finalist)
2025 Operations and Decision Technologies (ODT) Faculty Scholar for Research Excellence
2025 Kelley School of Business Research Award
2022 POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management (CHOM) Best Paper Competition (Finalist)
2022 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement
2022 Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
2021 IOE Richard C. Wilson Prize for Best Paper on Service Systems (1st place)
2020 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society (DAS) Best Student Paper Competition (2nd place)
2020 INFORMS Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied OR in Health Services (Finalist)
2020 Joel and Lorraine Brown Graduate Student Instructor of the Semester

Zhalechian, M., Saghafian, S., and Robles, O. (2026). Harmonizing Safety and Speed: A Human-Algorithm Approach to Enhance the FDA's Medical Device Clearance Policy. Management Science, in press.
Keyvanshokooh, E., Zhalechian, M., Shi, C., Van Oyen, M., and Kazemian, P. (2025). Contextual Learning with Online Convex Optimization: Theory and Application to Medical Decision-Making. Management Science, 71(12), 10442–10464.
Dean, A., Zhalechian, M., and Van Oyen, M. P. (2025). Dynamic care unit placements under unknown demand with learning. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27(5), 1396–1414.
Zhalechian, M., Keyvanshokooh, E., Shi, C., and Van Oyen, M. (2023). Data-Driven Hospital Admission Control: A Learning Approach. Operations Research, 71(6), 2111–2129.
Zhalechian, M., Keyvanshokooh, E., Shi, C., and Van Oyen, M. (2022). Online Resource Allocation with Personalized Learning. Operations Research, 70(4), 2138-2161.

Edited on August 17, 2026