Advisees & Fellows
Ph.D. Students
Jacob Jameson
Current Ph.D. advisee
Ibrahima (Ibou) Dieye
Current Ph.D. advisee
Sidian Lin
Current Ph.D. advisee
Amy Wickett
Ph.D., Dec. 2022
Role: Committee Member. Dissertation Title: “Essays on Diversity.” Position on Graduation: Applied Scientist II at Uber.
Stuart Iler
Ph.D., May 2022
Role: Committee Member. Dissertation Title: Essays on Shock Propagation in Economic Production Networks.” Position on Graduation: Consultant at Resources for Future. Other committee members: Robert Stavins (HKS) and Joseph Aldy (HKS).
Raha Imanirad
Ph.D., June 2020
Role: Chair. Dissertation Title: “Essays on Emergency Department Physician Performance”. Position on Graduation: Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Schulich School of Business, York University. Other committee members: Ananth Raman (HBS) and Ryan Buell (HBS).
Lina Song
Ph.D., May 2020
Role: Chair. Dissertation Title: “Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Management: The Role of Provider Market and Public Policy”. Position on Graduation: Assistant Professor of Operations and Technology, University College London, School of Management. Other committee members: Joseph Newhouse (HMS and HKS) and Mary Beth Landrum (HMS).
Vidit Munshi
Ph.D., May 2020
Role: Committee Member. Dissertation Title: “Risk-Based Strategies for Population Screening and Disease Management”. Position on Graduation: Lecturer, Questrom School of Business, Boston University. Other committee members: Jane Kim (HSPH) and Ankur Pandya (HSPH).
Alireza Boloori
Ph.D., Apr. 2019
Role: Chair. Dissertation Title: “Data-Driven Decision-Making for Medications Management Modalities”. Position on Graduation: Assistant Professor (Dept. of Statistics and Probability), Michigan State University. Current Position: Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, University of Washington.
Austin Bren
Ph.D., Apr. 2018
Role: Chair. Dissertation Title: “Data-Driven Robust Optimization in Healthcare Applications”. Position on Graduation: Operations Research Scientist at Opex Analytics.
Aysegul Demirtas
Ph.D., Feb. 2018
Role: Co-Chair. Dissertation Title: “The Optimal Control of Child Delivery for Women with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy”. Position on Graduation: Data Scientist at Intel.
Bahareh Azarnoush (Ph.D., Dec. 2014), Role: Committee Member. Dissertation Title: “Holistic Learning for Multi-Target and Network Monitoring Problems”. Position on Graduation: Data Scientist at Netflix.
Postdoc Fellows
Minmin Zhang
July 2025-July 2026
Ph.D. (2025) in Operations Management, University of Texas, Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management. Position: Postdoc Fellow Affiliate at the Harvard PIAS-Lab.
Lihi Idan
Jan 2024-Jan 2025
Ph.D. (2022) in Computer Science from Yale University. Position Postdoc Fellow Affiliate at the Harvard PIAS-Lab.
Sina Aghaei
Jan 2024-Jan 2025
Ph.D. (2023) in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society at the University of Southern California. Position: Postdoc Fellow at the Harvard PIAS-Lab.
Hossein Hejazian
Feb 2024-Feb 2025
Ph.D. (2024) in Operations Management, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. Position: Postdoc Fellow at the Harvard PIAS-Lab.
Agni Orfanoudaki
June 2021-June 2023
Ph.D. (2021) in Operations Research from MIT. Ph.D. advisor: Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas. Research area: The intersection of Optimization and Machine Learning with applications to healthcare. Position: Postdoc Fellow at the Harvard PIAS-Lab. Current Position: Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University.
Mohammad Zhalechian
July 2022-July 2024
Ph.D. (2022) in Industrial and Operations Engineering from University of Michigan. Research Area: the intersection of Statistical Machine Learning and Operations Research. Position: Postdoc Fellow at the Harvard PIAS-Lab. Current Position: Assistant Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
Arshya Feizi
April 2022-April 2023
Ph.D. (2022) in Operations Management from Boston University. Research area: Hospital Operations. Position: Postdoc Fellow at the Harvard PIAS-Lab. Current Position: Associate at Analysis Group.
Xi Xiong
July 2021-July 2022
Ph.D. (2021) in Transportation Planning and Engineering from New York University. Research area: Multi-agent reinforcement learning. Position: Postdoc Visiting Fellow at the Harvard PIAS-Lab.
Senior Fellows
Solamz Rashidi CEO and Founder, ExecutiveAI, Inventor of The Human Amplification Index
Miklós Szócska (M.D.), Former Minister of State for Health of Hungary, the Director of The Health Services Management Training Centre, and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Kyu Rhee (M.D., MPP), Senior Vice President and Aetna Chief Medical Officer at CVS Health, and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Brian Denton (M.D., Ph.D.), Stephen M. Pollock Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, and Department Chair.
Adel Hamaizia (Ph.D.), Managing Director at London-based Highbridge Advisory.
Omar Robles (Ph.D., MBA), Managing Partner at Emerging Health Consulting and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Abdullah Alibrahi (Ph.D., MS.), Assistant Professor of Industrial & Management Systems Engineering at the College of Engineering & Petroleum, Kuwait University, and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Middle East Initiative.