Ali Aouad
Assistant Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management
United States
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Top SchoolAli Aouad is an assistant professor and operations researcher specializing in AI-driven systems for supply chains, digital markets, and public sector decision-making, with 11 years of experience bridging academia and industry. He holds a PhD from MIT and advanced training from École Polytechnique, and has held faculty positions at London Business School and now MIT Sloan, plus a visiting scholar stint at Stanford GSB. His work blends rigorous theoretical modeling with practical marketplace and matching problems, informed by applied roles at Uber in marketplace optimization and consulting engagements in finance and strategy. He is comfortable translating academic insights into operational improvements—whether dynamic pricing, inventory optimization, or policy design—and has a track record of collaborating across academia, industry, and the public sector. A detail that's not obvious from titles alone: his background spans both high-frequency quantitative finance problems and large-scale marketplace engineering, giving him a rare ability to connect stochastic optimization with real-world platform constraints.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Operations Research at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPreparatory Class, Preparatory Class at Lycée Louis le GrandMaster's Degree, Applied Mathematics, Master's Degree, Applied Mathematics at Ecole polytechnique
French, Arabic, English
Github Skills (19)
multinomial8
greedy8
logit8
reward8
rubiks-cube8
binary-search7
placement7
crossword6
pattern-recognition6
optimization5
datastructures-algorithms5
rum5
loops5
dynamic4
selector4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ma-aouad/DynamicNP
Jun 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
rtm2130/MST
May 2019 - Jul 2022
Package for building Market Segmentation Trees, Choice Model Trees, and Isotonic Regression Trees
Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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