Preprints/Working Papers
1. Potty Parity
Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Ming Hu
Status: Management Science (forthcoming)
Keywords: Queueing
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?
3. Sharing Newsvendors
Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Ming Hu
Status: Under review at Operations Research (First round: Major Revision)
Keywords: Network games
Awards: Selected for presentation at MSOM SIG 2023
4. Learning Customer Preferences from Bundle Sales Data
Ningyuan Chen, Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Guan Wang
Status: R&R at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Keywords: EM algorithm, bundle, demand estimation
Awards: Winner of CORS Best Student Paper, Open Category 2023
5. Simultaneous vs. Sequential Product Release
Hojat Abdollahnejad, Ningyuan Chen, Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Ming Hu
Status: Major Revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Keywords: Learning, Reviews, Buzz economy
Media: McGill Delve, How Bingeable TV Protects Against Negative Criticism
6. Robust One-Shot Price Experimentation
Ali Daei Nabi, Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Ming Hu
Status: 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)
2. Why the Rooney Rule Fumbles: Limitations of Interview-stage Diversity Interventions in Labor Markets
Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Soonbong Lee, Vahideh Manshadi, and Faidra Monachou
Status: 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) and 2025 ACM
Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (ACM EAAMO 2025)