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Arash Asadpour serves as Associate Professor in the Business & Economics field at Baruch College - CUNY, holding a position in the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management within the Zicklin School of Business. He obtained his Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2010, specializing in Operations Research with a doctoral thesis entitled "Rounding by Sampling" under the supervision of Amin Saberi. Earlier, he completed a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology from 2001 to 2005. Originally from Iran, born in 1984, Asadpour's career trajectory includes a tenure as Assistant Professor of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business from 2011 to 2018. During this period, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Decision Models and Analytics, as well as doctoral-level Linear and Non-linear Optimization.
Asadpour's academic interests center on optimization, online marketplaces, matching and search markets, with practical applications in ridesharing platforms, online advertising, and retailing. He is listed as a subject matter expert in operations research, quantitative modeling, data science and analytics, and operations management by Baruch College. His influential publications encompass "Minimum Earnings Regulation and the Stability of Marketplaces" co-authored with Ilan Lobel and Garrett J. van Ryzin (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2023), "Sequential Submodular Maximization and Applications to Ranking an Assortment of Products" with Rad Niazadeh, Amin Saberi, and Ali Shameli (2022), "Maximizing Stochastic Monotone Submodular Functions" with Hamid Nazerzadeh (Management Science, 2016), and "Santa Claus Meets Hypergraph Matchings" with Uriel Feige and Amin Saberi (ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2012). With over 1,191 citations on Google Scholar, his research impacts market design and operations management. Additionally, he contributes to the Ph.D. program as doctoral faculty at Zicklin School of Business.
