Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

Find seminars on operations, information, and technology that are open to the Stanford University community.

OIT seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. PT, unless otherwise indicated.

Winter 2025

Date & Time Speaker Title
Jan 8
12:00 - 1:00pm
M105
Akshit Kumar
Columbia Business School
Dynamic Resource Allocation: Theory and Practice
Jan 9
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Angela Kohlenberg
Kellogg School of Management
Greedy Matching of Impatient Agents: The Role of Inventory
Jan 15
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Aras Selvi
Imperial College
Differential Privacy via Distributionally Robust Optimization
Jan 16
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Jiayu Kamessi Zhao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Two-Sided Flexibility in Platforms
Jan 21
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Ethan Che
Columbia Business School
Differentiable Discrete Event Simulation for Queuing Network Control
Jan 22
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Daniel Halpern
Harvard University
Tracking Truth with Liquid Democracy
Feb 26
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Stefan Wager
Stanford University
Optimal Mechanisms for Demand Response: An Indifference Set Approach joint paper with Mohammad Mehrabi and Omer Karaduman
Mar 05
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Bahar Taskesen
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
 
Mar 12
12:00pm - 1:00pm
BC130
Rouba Ibrahim
School on Management, University College of London

 

 

Spring 2025

Date & Time Speaker Title
Apr 9
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBD
Rakesh Vohra
University of Pennsylvania
 
Apr 16
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBD
Auyon Siddiq
University of California, Los Angeles
 
Apr 23
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBD
Ramesh Johari
Stanford University
 
Apr 30
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBD
Bora Keskin
Duke University
 
May 7
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBD
Vasiliki Kostami
HEC Paris Business School
 
May 21
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBD
Serguei Netessine
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
 
May 28
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBD
Donald Lee
Emory University
 
 
June 05
12:00pm - 1:00pm
TBD
Kartik Hosanagar
The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
 

Fall 2024

Date & Time Speaker Title
Oct 2
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105

Stefanos Zenios
Stanford GSB 
Does Lean Startup Work? Evidence from Randomized Control Trials
   
Oct 9
12:00pm - 1:15pm
M105
Benjamin Olken
MIT Economics
Joint with Political Economy
 
Oct 15
12:00 - 1:00 pm
M105
Student Presentations  
Oct 16
12:00 - 1:00 pm
M105
Student Presentations  
Oct 30
12:00pm - 1:00pm
E247
Dorothee Honhon
The University of Texas at Dallas
It’s still good! Date labels & food waste
Nov 6
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Achal Bassamboo
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Asymptotically Optimal Adaptive A/B Tests for Average Treatment Effect
Nov 13
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Mert Demirer
MIT Sloan School of Management
How On-Demand Inputs Change Firm Production and Business Dynamism: The Case of Cloud Computing Joint paper with James Brand
Nov 20
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Ali Fattahi
John Hopkins Carey Business School
Dec 3
12:00pm - 1:00pm
M105
Brian T. Tomlin
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Joint paper with Tao Lu

 

Seminar Organizers

Associate Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
The Investment Group of Santa Barbara Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Operations, Information & Technology