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Daniel Freund is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research applies techniques from optimization, stochastic modeling, and revenue management to problems in transportation, online platforms, and humanitarian immigration among others. His work has been recognized with the MSOM Best OM Paper in OR Award (2023), the Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award (2021), the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award (2018), the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research and Analytics (2018), and a Best Paper award at the ACM SIGCAS COMPASS conference (2018). Daniel is an AE for Operations Research and frequently serves on ACM program committees (e.g., EC, EAAMO, TheWebConf).

Daniel holds a BSc in mathematics from the University of Warwick (UK), as well as an MS and a PhD in applied mathematics from Cornell University, where he was advised by David B. Shmoys. Before joining MIT, Daniel was a postdoc in Lyft's Marketplace Labs team.

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Daniel Freund wins INFORMS prize

March 13, 2024

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"On the Supply of Autonomous Vehicles in Platforms."

Daniel Freund, Jiayu (Kamessi) Zhao, and Ilan Lobel. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2024. SSRN Version.

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"The Dedicated Docket in US Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties."

Daniel Freund and Wentao Weng. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2024. SSRN Version.

"On the Supply of Autonomous Technologies in Open Platforms."

Freund, Daniel, Ilan Lobel, and Jiayu Zhao, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6816-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2024.

"Quantifying the Cost of Learning in Queueing Systems."

Daniel Freund, Theodoris Lykouris, and Wentao Weng. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, New Orleans, LA: December 2023. Download Paper.

"Overbooking with Bounded Loss."

Freund, Daniel and Jiayu Zhao. Mathematics of Operations Research Vol. 48, No. 3 (2023): 1344-1363. Supplemental Materials. Download Preprint.

"Group Fairness in Dynamic Refugee Assignment."

Daniel Freund, Thodoris Lykouris, Elizabeth Paulson, Brandley Sturt, and Wentao Weng. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, London, UK: July 2023.

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