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Daniel Freund

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Daniel Freund, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

Biography

Daniel Freund is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research applies techniques from optimization, stochastic modeling, and revenue management to problems in transportation, online platforms, and humanitarian immigration among others. His work has been recognized with the MSOM Best OM Paper in OR Award (2023), the Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award (2021), the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award (2018), the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research and Analytics (2018), and a Best Paper award at the ACM SIGCAS COMPASS conference (2018). Daniel is an AE for Operations Research and frequently serves on ACM program committees (e.g., EC, EAAMO, TheWebConf).

Daniel holds a BSc in mathematics from the University of Warwick (UK), as well as an MS and a PhD in applied mathematics from Cornell University, where he was advised by David B. Shmoys. Before joining MIT, Daniel was a postdoc in Lyft's Marketplace Labs team.

(You may also be looking for my name-fellow and colleague, Robert M. Freund's personal website.)

Featured Research

"On the Supply of Autonomous Vehicles in Platforms."
Daniel Freund, Jiayu (Kamessi) Zhao, and Ilan Lobel. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2024. SSRN Version.

"The Dedicated Docket in US Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties."
Daniel Freund and Wentao Weng. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2024. SSRN Version.

"Pricing and Optimization in Shared Vehicle Systems: An Approximation Framework."
Siddhartha Banerjee, Daniel Freund, and Thodoris Lykouris. Operations Research, Forthcoming. Download Paper.

"Driver Positioning and Incentive Budgeting with an Escrow Mechanism for Ride-Sharing Platforms."
Hao Yi Ong, Daniel Freund, Davide Crapis. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics Vol. 51, No. 5 (2021): 373–390.

Areas of Interest

  • Analytics
  • Combinatorial Optimization
  • Management Science
  • Operations Management
  • Sharing Economy

Media Highlights

Surge in Wendy’s complaints exposes limits to consumer tolerance of unstable prices

The limit to where, when and for what U.S. consumers will trade more cash for convenience.

Bike-sharing system wins 2018 Wagner Prize

A team from Cornell University and Motivate was awarded the 2018 Wagner Prize for its unique application of analytics and O.R. to improve the placement of bike docking stations and create an inventive approach to replenish and rebalance docking stations.

Citi Bike breaks the cycle of empty stations

“Bike sharing is an amazing piece of moving cities to a more sustainable foundation. Cities are being congested by cars and other fossil fuel-driven vehicular traffic, and more extensive use of bikes as a means of personal transport is a great step forward.” - David Shmoys