Accepted/Published Papers
1. "Potty Parity" Farajollahzadeh, Setareh, and Ming Hu, Management Science (forthcoming)
Keywords: EDI, Queueing Games, Process Flexibility
Awards: Finalist, INFORMS DEI Best Student Paper 2024
Finalist, CORS Best Student Paper, Applied Probability and Queueing 2023
Media: Rotman Insights, Refreshing your office space? Have you considered your potty parity? [Media Link]
2. "(Case Study) "Potty Parity: Stadium Restroom Design", Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Ming Hu, Vahid Roshanaei, INFORMS Transaction on Education, 2025.
Keywords: Queueing Theory, EDI, Pooling, Process Flexibility
Awards: Winner, INFORMS Case Competition 2024
Working Papers
3. "Sharing Newsvendors," Farajollahzadeh, Setareh , Ming Hu, Under review at Operations Research (First round: Major Revision)
Keywords: Network games, Newsvendor Models, Transshipment, Social Network Design
Awards: Selected for presentation at MSOM SIG 2023
4. "Why the Rooney Rule Fumbles: Limitations of Interview-stage Diversity Interventions in Labor Markets", Farajollahzadeh, Setareh , Soonbong Lee, Vahideh Manshadi, and Faidra Monachou, Major Revision at Operations Research
Keywords: Diversity, Matching with Interviews, Labor Markets
Conference: Extended abstract published in the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC 2025)
Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (ACM EAAMO 2025)
5. "Simultaneous vs. Sequential Product Release", Abdollahnejad, Hojat , Ningyuan Chen, Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Ming Hu, Major Revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Keywords: Learning, Reviews, Buzz economy, Demand Rotation
Media: McGill Delve, How Bingeable TV Protects Against Negative Criticism
6. "Robust One-Shot Price Experimentation", Daei Nabi, Ali, Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Ming Hu, Major Revision at Management Science
Keywords: Experiment, Robust Pricing, Value of Information
Practice Impact: pricingservice.ai, From Research to Revenue: The Science Behind One-Shot Price Experiments for Hotels
Conference: Extended abstract to appear in the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC 2025)
7. "Learning Customer Preferences from Bundle Sales Data", Chen, Ningyuan , Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Guan Wang, Reject & Resubmit at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Keywords: EM algorithm, bundle, demand estimation
Awards: Winner of CORS Best Student Paper, Open Category 2023
8. "An Invisible Workforce: Managing Quality in the AI Supply Chain", Farajollahzadeh, Setareh, Rob Glew
Status: To be submitted.
Keywords: Citizen Science, Data Annotation, Learned Industriousness, Crowdsourcing Platforms