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Unlike most of my posts, this one is very personal.

Over the past months, eligibility for COVID-19 vaccination has expanded, and it was recently announced that all Americans are now eligible.

In a previous post, I wrote about several strategies for reducing turnaround times for COVID tests.

COVID testing is a key tool for fighting the virus.

The Power of Pooling One of the central lessons from the waiting time unit of my operations management course is "the power of pooling"1: a single centralized system can result in lower waiting times than many independent systems.

One of the units in my operations management course is on variability and waiting time.

"Find the bottleneck, and address it!"

Many people have had their eyes on election polls recently.

Last week I had the pleasure of seeing Nikhil Devanur present Static pricing for multi-unit prophet inequalities, which is joint with Thodoris Lykouris and Shuchi Chawla.

On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of seeing Nikhil Devanur present Static pricing for multi-unit prophet inequalities, which is joint with Thodoris Lykouris and Shuchi Chawla.

Motivation Several years ago, I was looking for speakers on Amazon.

Increasingly, priorities viewed as design lever.

I often find myself explaining stable matching to researchers who have little background in matching, but are familiar with queueing theory.

In February 2019, the Brookings Institution published The Opportunities and Risks of K-12 Student Placement Algorithms, which includes the following quote: Even if DA algorithms are relatively simple, predicting how student assignment policies will affect…

Overview The Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a need to ration scarce medical supplies.

Changes to School Admissions in NYC New York has made some recent changes to their middle and high school admissions process.

The Proposal My friend Shengwu Li pointed me to the following (eight year old) Marginal Revolution blog post titled “A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit.”

Prologue: Running in Graduate School The motivation for this post comes from my time in graduate school.

Motivation Many researchers rely on grants to fund their work.

My research usually starts from the premise that there is a shortage of some item, which triggers the need for an allocation policy.

Before COVID-19 took over, the hottest news story was the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary.

The final unit of my operations course is on inventory management.

Today, we’ll address a question that comes up frequently in policy discussions: whether government programs should be means-tested.

Motivation This fall, I started playing basketball with other junior faculty members.

Continuing on a theme from yesterday’s post, let’s stick with the airline industry.

In the past year, Delta has rolled out biometric boarding for international flights from Atlanta, Salt Lake City, and my home airport of Minneapolis/Saint Paul.

Today’s post is about a topic that caught my eye during my first year of graduate school: inferring win probabilities from betting lines.

Today I'm writing about a process that many of my friends from graduate school have faced: the lottery for H1B visas.

Last night, LeBron James became the first player to have a triple double against all 30 NBA teams.

Setting the Scene Your team is down 14 points, and scores a touchdown with four minutes left to pull within 8.

\(\newcommand{\fbar}{\overline{F}}\) \(\newcommand{\E}{\mathbb{E}}\) 1 Motivation At INFORMS, I saw a talk by Jingxing (Rowena) Gan, about her paper Inventory, Speculators, and Initial Coin Offerings (joint with Gerry Tsoukalas and Serguei Netessine).

Motivation A common piece of investing advice goes as follows:1 Stock-based funds have higher long-term return potential but also have relatively high volatility.