I recently had the honor of being a guest on Resoundingly Human, the official podcast of @INFORMS. In this episode, we delve into the fascinating realm of operations research in the #gaming industry, examining its past, now and future.
https://t.co/JhKPLV2lot
Check out our blog post in Management Science Review on "Pricing with Fairness". This is going to be a bigger topic as algorithmic pricing continues to rise. PS @leixiao322 is no longer a student, he is now a professor at HKU Business School! https://t.co/qj5lbUoKTh @maxccohen
SIGecom Seminar Series: Friday at 11am ET, we have
Tristan Pollner: Improved Online Contention Resolution for Matchings and Applications to the Gig Economy
Xiao Lei: Matchmaking Strategies for Maximizing Player Engagement in Video Games
(https://t.co/Ghg3tAp6VK for more info)
How should a video game decide which players to match against each other? And what if there are AI bots or players can pay-to-win? With @leixiao322 (on the job market) and Mingliu Chen leading the way, we have some answers: https://t.co/uINVKzzdSM
With @maxccohen and my student @leixiao322, we provide a framework for enforcing fairness in the context of pricing. Fairness can mean similar prices, surplus, or demand across different protected groups, and each has different effects on social welfare https://t.co/EnWImfOlaC
An initial draft that summarizes OR/IE models and tools for #COVID19 related problems is online now. See the 22-page full version here: https://t.co/ZvO1U5Rm0J and a shorter read on https://t.co/Nh1wSmYJmK It also contains online data resources we found. 1/n
Happy to present our loot box paper at Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management @SEM_Tsinghua ! Check out our paper (https://t.co/3opdfFdyW1) with Ningyuan Chen @ManagementUTM , my advisor @Adam235711 and Michel Hamilton @KatzPittBiz