Ali Aouad
Associate Professor
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
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Operations Research at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster's Degree Applied Mathematics, Master's Degree Applied Mathematics at École PolytechniquePreparatory Class, Preparatory Class at Lycée Louis le Grand
French, Arabic, English
Github Skills (10)
segmentation9
gurobi7
logit7
rum6
algorithms4
python3
optimization3
tensorflow3
machine-learning1
ml1
Programming languages (3)
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
segmentation
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