Jiayu Kamessi Zhao

I am a 5th (final) year PhD student at MIT Operations Research Center


Ph.D. in Operations Research at MIT, 2020-2025 (expected)
B.S. in Operations Research at Columbia University, 2016-2020

kamessi@mit.edu [✉️]
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About Me

I am a final year PhD student at the Operations Research Center at MIT, where I am advised by Prof. Daniel Freund. Prior to my PhD, I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University in 2020 with a B.S. degree in Operations Research.

My research studies how two-sided service platforms, via algorithm and market designs, can incentivize agents' flexibility to enhance operational efficiency. Through the lens of flexibility designs, I (i) manage incentives across both supply and demand sides of platforms to improve matching efficiency, and (ii) align agents' incentives to adopt new technologies, such as deploying autonomous vehicles on mobility platforms. In tackling these challenges, I apply tools from game theory and stochastic decision-making to transportation, e-commerce, and other platform applications. In summer 2023 and 2024, I worked at Uber Eats Realtime Pricing Team as an applied scientist intern.

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