Nikos Trichakis

Nikolaos K. Trichakis Associate Professor of Operations Management MIT Sloan School of Management Operations Research Center

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Research

Fairness and Ethics in Analytics, Data-driven and Robust Optimization, Resource Allocation, Healthcare Operations, Supply Chain Management, Revenue Management, Financing of Operations

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Journal Publications

• Fairness in Operations

  1. The Price of Fairness (with D. Bertsimas and V. F. Farias) (Operations Research, Vol. 59, No.1, 2011)

  2. On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off (with D. Bertsimas and V. F. Farias) (Management Science, Vol. 58, No. 12, 2012) (Appendices)

  3. Fairness and Efficiency in Multiportfolio Optimization (with D. A. Iancu) (Operations Research, Vol. 62, No. 6, 2014) (Appendices)

  4. Ethics-by-design: Efficient, Fair and Inclusive Resource Allocation using Machine Learning (with T. P. Papalexopoulos, D. Bertsimas, I. G. Cohen, R. R. Goff and D. E. Stewart) (Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2022)

• Finance/Operations Interface and Revenue Management

  5. Is Operating Flexibility Harmful Under Debt? (with D. A. Iancu and G. Tsoukalas) (Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 6, 2017)

     • 2018 M&SOM Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management Best Paper Award, First Prize

  6. Dynamic Pricing under Debt: Spiraling Distortions and Efficiency Losses (with O. Besbes and D. A. Iancu) (Management Science, Vol. 64, No. 10, 2018) (Appendices)

  7. On the Financing Benefits of Supply Chain Transparency and Blockchain Adoption (Management Science, Vol. 66, No. 10, 2020) (with J. Chod, G. Tsoukalas, H. Aspegren, and M. Weber)

     • 2022 Best OM Paper in Management Science, Finalists

     • 2021 M&SOM Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management Best Paper Award, First Prize

     • 2018 INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Best Working Paper Award, Third Prize

  8. Supplier Diversification under Buyer Risk (with J. Chod and G. Tsoukalas) (Management Science, Vol. 65, No. 7, 2019)

  9. On the Efficacy of Static Prices for Revenue Management in the Face of Strategic Customers (with Y. Chen and V. F. Farias) (Management Science, Vol. 65, No. 12, 2019)

  10. Technical Note–On Revenue Management with Strategic Customers Choosing When and What to Buy (with Y. Chen) (Operations Research, Vol. 69, No.1, 2021)

  11. On the Learning Benefits of Resource Flexibility (with J. Chod and M. Markakis) (Management Science, Vol. 67, No. 10, 2021)

  12. Loyalty Program Liabilites and Point Values (with S.-Y. Chun and D. A. Iancu) (M&SOM, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2020)

  13. Platform Tokenization: Financing, Governance, and Moral Hazard (with J. Chod and S. A. Yang) (Management Science, Vol. 68, No.9, 2022)

• Optimization

  14. Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization (with D. A. Iancu) (Management Science, Vol. 60, No. 1, 2014)

      • 2013 INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition, First Prize

      • 2018 INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researchers Paper Prize, First Prize

  15. Robust Multiclass Queuing Theory for Wait Time Estimation in Resource Allocation Systems (with C. Bandi and P. Vayanos) (Management Science, Vol. 65, No. 1, 2019)

  16. Designing Response Supply Chain Against Bioattacks (with P. Y. Zhang and D. Simchi-Levi) (Operations Research, Vol. 67, No. 5, 2019)

      • 2020 INFORMS Koopman Prize Winner

      • 2018 POMS Best Paper Award, Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management, Second Prize

      • 2017 POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Competition, Second Prize

  17. Monitoring With Limited Information (with D.-Y. Yoon and D. A. Iancu) (Management Science, Vol. 67, No. 7, 2021)

  18. Dynamic Project Expediting: A Stochastic Shortest-Path Approach (Management Science, forthcoming) (with L. Bertazzi and R. Mogre)

• Healthcare

  19. Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation (with D. Bertsimas and V. F. Farias) (Operations Research, Vol. 61, No. 1, 2013) (Appendices)

      • 2011 INFORMS Pierskalla Award, Finalists

  20. Data-driven Appointment Scheduling Under Uncertainty: The Case of an Infusion Unit in a Cancer Center (with A. Mandelbaum, P. Momcilovic, S. Kadish, R. Leib and C. A. Bunnell) (Management Science, Vol. 66, No. 1, 2020)

  21. Forecasting COVID-19 and Analyzing the Effect of Government Interventions (with M. L. Li, H. T. Bouardi, O. S. Lami, T. A. Trikalinos and D. Bertsimas) (Operations Research, forthcoming)

  22. Accept or Decline? An Analytics-Based Decision Tool for Kidney Offer Evaluation (with D. Bertsimas, J. Kung, D. Wojciechowski and P. A. Vagefi) (Transplantation, 101(12):2898–2904, Dec 2017)

      • Editorial

  23. Development and validation of an Optimized Prediction of Mortality (OPOM) for candidates awaiting liver transplantation (with D. Bertsimas, J. Kung, Y. Wang, R. Hirose and P. A. Vagefi) (American Journal of Transplantation, 2018;00:1–10)

      • Featured in JAMA (JAMA. 2019;321(10):930. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.7155)

      • opom.online

      • Accepted at the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 19th Annual State of the Art Winter Symposium

  24. Balancing Efficiency and Fairness in Liver Transplant Access: Tradeoff Curves for the Assessment of Organ Distribution Policies (Transplantation, 2020 May;104(5):981-987) (with D. Bertsimas, T. Papalexopoulos, Y. Wang, R. Hirose and P. A. Vagefi)

      • Editorial

      • github

  25. The Rise and Fall of MELD and the Need for an Optimized Machine Learning Approach for Liver Allocation (Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 25(2):p 122-125, April 2020) (with D. Bertsimas, R. Hirose and P. A. Vagefi)

  26. Joint Patient Selection and Scheduling under No-Shows: Theory and Application in Proton Therapy (Production and Operations Management, forthcoming) (with S. Saghafian, R. Zhu and H. A. Shih)

  27. Applying Analytics to Design Lung Transplant Allocation Policy (INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, forthcoming) (with T. P. Papalexopoulos, D. Bertsimas, J. Alcorn, R. R. Goff and D. E. Stewart)

      • 2022 Daniel H. Wagner Prize, Finalists

Under Review

• For journal publication

  28. Product-Driven Questionnaire Design for Product Display Recommendations (with J. Amar and C. Bandi)

  29. Preventing Opioid Overdose: From Prediction to Operationalization (with J. O. Jonasson, N. Kaw, D. Sinha, A. Chen, J. Conte, A. Restaino and S. Volpe)

  30. Pareto Adaptive Robust Optimality via a Fourier-Motzkin Elimination Lens (with D. Bertsimas, S. C. M. ten Eikelder and D. den Hertog)

  31. Reshaping National Organ Allocation Policy (with T. P. Papalexopoulos, D. Bertsimas, J. Alcorn, R. R. Goff and D. E. Stewart)

  32. On the Impact of Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 through Self-Testing in Greece (with S. Gilmour, S. Sapounas, K. Drakopoulos, P. Jaillet and Gkikas Magiorkinis)

Other Publications

• Conference publications

  33. Quantifying the electronic medical record implementation to stabilization curve (with S. Kadish, A. Senderovich, R. Leib, A. Mandelbaum, P. Momcilovic, and C. A. Bunnell) (Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 35, No. 8, 2017)

  34. Dynamic Network Utility Maximization with Delivery Contracts (with S. Boyd and A. Zymnis) (Proceedings IFAC World Congress, p.2907-2912, Seoul, July 2008)

  35. An Interior-Point Method for Large Scale Network Utility Maximization (with S. Boyd, D. O'Neill and A. Zymnis) (Proceedings of the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 2007)

• Thesis

  • Fairness in Operations: From Theory to Practice (MIT thesis, 2011)

    • 2012 INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, Third Prize

Papers In Preparation

• Decomposing Volume's Impact on Performance: Lessons from Kidney Transplantation (with R. Huckman and P. A. Saynisch)

• Distribution Free Algorithms for Network Revenue Management (with J. Amar)

Teaching

• Published Material

  • Curtis LLP: A Case on Cases (Harvard Business School Case 616-049, June 2016)

  • Financing Curtis LLP (Harvard Business School Case 616-050, February 2016)

  • Lotus F1 Team (with S. Thomke, J. Lenhardt, and D. Beyersdorfer) (Harvard Business School Case 616-055, March 2016)

  • Credem: Banking on Cheese (with G. Tsoukalas and E. Moloney) (Harvard Business School Case 615-046, February 2015)

  • Credem: Banking on Cheese (Harvard Business School Teaching Note 615-071, March 2015)

  • Infection Control at Massachusetts General Hospital (with R. Huckman) (Harvard Business School Case 614-044, November 2013)

  • Infection Control at Massachusetts General Hospital (with R. Huckman) (Harvard Business School Teaching Note 615-056, March 2015)

• Courses

  • 15.761 Introduction to Operations Management, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, 2021, 2023

  • 15.764 The Theory of Operations Management, Spring 2017, Spring 2020

  • 15.763 Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chain Design, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023

  • HBS 2135 Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor, HBS, Winter 2015, 2016

  • RCTOM Technology and Operations Management, HBS, Fall 2013, 2012, 2011

  • HBS 4480 Operations Management, HBS, Fall 2012

  • 15.761 Introduction to Operations Management, (assistant), Spring 2010

  • 15.764 The Theory of Operations Management, (assistant), Spring 2009

  • 15.071 The Edge: Decision Methodologies for Managers, (assistant), Spring 2008

  • EE141 Engineering Electromagnetics, (assistant), Stanford University, Fall 2006