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
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.