Publications of Pavithra Harsha

In reverse chronological order.

1. Learning Personalized Product Recommendations with Customer Disengagement
   • Authors:Hamsa Bastani , Pavithra Harsha, Georgia Perakis, Divya Singhvi .
   • Forthcoming in MSOM Journal [ pdf ].
   • Award:
     • Second place in 2019 INFORMS Service Science Best Paper Award
2. A prescriptive machine learning framework to the price-setting newsvendor problem
   • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Dharmashankar Subramanian, Ramesh Natarajan.
   • INFORMS Journal on Optimization, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp 227-314, 2021 [ pdf ].
   • Superquantile regression decomposition code in MATLAB using CPLEX [ Code, Sample X, Sample Y ].
3. Demand modeling in the presence of unobserved lost sales
   • Authors: Shivaram Subramanian, Pavithra Harsha.
   • Management Science,Volume 67, Issue 6, pp 3803-3833, 2020 [ pdf ].
4. A Data-Driven Approach to Personalized Bundle Pricing and Recommendation
   • Authors:Markus Ettl, Pavithra Harsha, Anna Papush, Georgia Perakis.
   • MSOM Journal, Volume 22, Issue 3, pp 461-480, 2020 [ pdf ].
   • Award:
     • Winner of 2017 INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award
5. Designing price incentives in a network with social interactions
   • Authors: Maxime Cohen, Pavithra Harsha.
   • MSOM Journal, Volume 22, Issue 2, pp 292-309, 2020 [ pdf ].
6. Dynamic Pricing of omnichannel inventories
   • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Shivaram Subramanian, Joline Uichanco.
   • MSOM Journal, Volume 21, Issue 1, pp 47-65, February 2019 [ pdf ].
   • Awards:
     • Winner of 2017 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award
     • Honorable Mention - 2017 MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition
7. A practical price optimization approach for omni-channel retailing
   • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Shivaram Subramanian, Markus Ettl.
   • INFORMS Journal of Optimization, Volume 1, Issue 3, pp 185-264, Summer 2019 [ pdf ].
8. Optimal management and sizing of energy storage with renewable energy under dynamic pricing
   • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Munther Dahleh.
   • Dynamic prices
     • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp 1164-1181, May 2015 [ pdf ].
   • Constant price
     • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, December 2011 [ pdf ].
9. A framework for the analysis of probabilistic demand response schemes
   • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Mayank Sharma, Ramesh Natarajan, Soumyadip Ghosh.
   • IEEE Transactions of Smart Grid, Volume 4, Issue 4, pp 2274-2284, December 2013.
   • [ pdf ]
10. Markdown Optimization for a Fashion e-tailer: The Impact of Returning Customers
    • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Zachery Leung, Georgia Perakis.
    • INFORMS Manufacturing and Services Operations Management (MSOM) Conference, June 2011, 2012.
    • In preparation.
11. Tractable markdown optimization for single and multiple items under uncertainty
    • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Georgia Perakis.
    • Multiple items
      • INFORMS Manufacturing and Services Operations Management (MSOM) Conference, June 2011.
    • Single item
      • INFORMS Manufacturing and Services Operations Management (MSOM) Conference, June 2010].
    • In preparation.
12. Airline response to airport slot auctions
    • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Cynthia Barnhart, David C. Parkes.
    • In preparation.
13. Strong activity rules for iterative combinatorial auctions
    • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Cynthia Barnhart, David C. Parkes, Haoqi Zhang.
    • Computers and Operations Research Volume 37, Issue 7, pp 1271-1284, July 2010.
    • [ pdf ]
14. Quantum auctions
    • Authors: Tad Hogg, Pavithra Harsha, Kay-Yut Chen.
    • International Journal of Quantum Information Volume 5, Number 5, pp 751-780, October 2007.
    • [ pdf ]
15. Analytical approach for selection of optimal feed rate in efficient machining of sculptured surfaces
    • Authors: Pavithra Harsha, Vikram Gavini, Ramesh N. Babu.
    • Proceedings of the international conference on manufacturing automation, Hong Kong, pp 227-236, 10-12 December 2002.

Doctoral Thesis

• Mitigating Airport Congestion: Market Mechanisms and Airline Response Models
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Sep 2008.
  • Advisors: Cynthia Barnhart and David C. Parkes.
  • [ Abstract | Extended Abstract | Thesis ]
  • Awards:
    • Honorable mention in 2009 INFORMS Aviation's Application Dissertation Prize
    • Honorable mention in 2009 INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Dissertation Prize

Pavithra Harsha