Vahideh Manshadi

Vahideh Manshadi is an Associate Professor of Operations at Yale School of Management. She is also affiliated with the Yale Institute for Network Science, the Department of Statistics and Data Science, and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics.

Her current research focuses on the operation of online and matching platforms, especially those with societal impact, including volunteer crowdsourcing, organ allocation, and information (news) platforms. She has collaborated with nationwide platform-based nonprofits, including Food Rescue US and VolunteerMatch. She has also worked on operational problems in e-commerce platforms such as online shopping and advertising. At Yale, she teaches the MBA elective “Big Data” and the Ph.D. course “Models of Operations Research and Management.”

Professor Manshadi serves as an associate editor for the journals Management Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Further, she has served as the track chair of the Applied Modeling track for the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC ’21) and the area chair for the 1st ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21). She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, where she also received MS degrees in statistics and electrical engineering. Before joining Yale, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the MIT Operations Research Center.

EDUCATION

• PhD , Stanford University, 2011
• MS , Stanford University, 2011
• BS , Sharif University of Technology, 2003

SELECTED ARTICLES

Diffusion in Random Networks: Impact of Degree Distribution V. H. Manshadi, S. Misra, and S. Rodilitz Operations Research Forthcoming

On Matching and Thickness in Heterogeneous Dynamic Markets I. Ashlagi, M. Burq, P. Jaillet, V. H. Manshadi Operations Research Forthcoming

The Stochastic Container Relocation Problem V. Galle, V. H. Manshadi, S. Borjian, C. Barnhart, and P. Jaillet Transportation Science 2018

The effect of match-run frequencies on the number of transplants and waiting times in kidney exchange I. Ashlagi, A. Bingaman, M. Burq, V. H. Manshadi, D. Gamarnik, C. Murphey, A. E. Roth, M. L. Melcher, and M. A. Rees American Journal of Transplantation 2017

An Average-Case Asymptotic Analysis of the Container Relocation Problem V. H. Manshadi, S. Borjian, V. Galle, C. Barnhart, and P. Jaillet Operations Research Letters 2016

SELECTED WORKING PAPERS

Product Ranking on Online Platforms M. Derakhshan, N. Golrezaei, V. H. Manshadi, and V. Mirrokni 2019

Information Inundation on Platforms and Implications G. Allon, K. Drakopoulos, and V. H. Manshadi 2019

Online Resource Allocation under Partially Predictable Demand D. Hwang, P. Jaillet, and V. H. Manshadi, 2018, submitted

Dynamic Stochastic Optimization of Relocations in Container Terminals S. Borjian, V. H. Manshadi, C. Barnhart, and P. Jaillet 2013

Impact of Network Structure on New Service Pricing S. Alizamir, N. Chen, S. Kim, and V. H. Manshadi, 2018