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Research and Publications

Selected Journal Publications (incl. minor revisions)

  1. "The Dedicated Docket in U.S. Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties." Minor Revision in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2026). Freund, Daniel and Wentao Weng
    • Earlier versions of this paper were accepted at EC 2024 and EAAMO 2024
    • Runner-up for the 2024 Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award
    • Winner of the 2024 Service Science Best DEIJ Paper Award
  2. "The Transient Cost of Learning in Queueing Systems." Minor Revision in Operations Research (2025). Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, and Wentao Weng
    • An earlier version of this paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2023
  3. "On the Supply of Autonomous Technologies in Open Platforms." Freund, Daniel, Ilan Lobel, and Jiayu Zhao. Forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.  SSRN Preprint.
  4. "Pricing Fast and Slow: Limitations of Dynamic Pricing Mechanisms in Ride-Hailing." Freund, Daniel and Garrett J. van Ryzin. Forthcoming at Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. SSRN Preprint.
    • A version of this paper was accepted for presentation at the EC 2021 Workshop on the Design of Online Platforms and at MSOM 2022
    • My talk at Cornell
  5. "Good Prophets Know When the End is Near." Banerjee, Siddhartha and Daniel Freund. Management Science. Vol. 71, No. 6 (2025): 4877-4894. SSRN Preprint.
    • An earlier version of this paper was accepted at SIGMETRICS 2020
    • My talk at Simons
    • Winner of the 2021 INFORMS APS Best Publication Award
  6. "Fair Incentives for Repeated Engagement." Freund, Daniel and Chamsi Hssaine.Production & Operations Management. Vol. 34, No. 1 (2025): 16-29. arXiv Preprint.
    • An earlier version of this paper was accepted at WINE 2023
  7. "Efficient Decentralized Multi-agent Learning in Asymmetric Bipartite Queuing Systems." Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, and Wentao Weng. Operations Research. Vol. 72, No. 3 (2024): 1049-1070. arXiv Preprint.
  8. "Overbooking with Bounded Loss." Freund, Daniel, and Jiayu Zhao. Mathematics of Operations Research. Vol. 48, No. 3 (2023): 1344-1363. arXiv Preprint.
  9. "Minimizing Multimodular Functions and Allocating Capacity in Bike-Sharing Systems." Freund, Daniel, Shane G. Henderson, and David B. Shmoys. Operations Research.Vol. 70, No. 5 (2022): 2715-2731.  arXiv Preprint. Supplemental Materials.
    • An earlier version of this paper was accepted at IPCO 2017
    • Winner of the MSOM Best OM Paper in Operations Research Award 2023
    • Finalist for the 2017 INFORMS George Nicholson Paper Award and the 2018 POM Applied Research Challenge
  10. "Pricing and Optimization in Shared Vehicle Systems: An Approximation Framework." Banerjee, Siddhartha, Daniel Freund, and Thodoris Lykouris. Operations Research Vol. 70, No. 3 (2022): 1783-1805. arXiv Preprint.
    • An earlier version of this paper was accepted for presentation at EC 2017 & the 2017 Marketplace Innovation Workshop
    • Thodoris's talk at EC
    • Finalist for the 2017 INFORMS APS Best Student Paper Award
  11. "Driver Positioning and Incentive Budgeting with an Escrow Mechanism for Ridesharing Platforms." Yi Ong, Hao, Daniel Freund, and Davide Crapis. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics. Vol 51, No. 5 (2021): 373-390. arXiv Preprint.
  12. "Budgeted Prize-Collecting Traveling Salesman and Minimum Spanning Tree Problems." Paul, Alice, Daniel Freund, Aaron Ferber, David B. Shmoys, and David P. Williamson. Mathematics of Operations Research Vol. 45, No. 2 (2020): 576–590. Erratum.
    • An earlier version of this paper was accepted at ESA 2017.
  13. "Analytics and Bikes: Riding Tandem with Motivate to Improve Mobility." Freund, Daniel, Shane G. Henderson, Eoin O'Mahony, and David B. Shmoys. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics Vol. 49, No. 5 (2019): 310-323.

Working Papers

  1. "Regulating wait-driven requests in queues." Freund, Daniel, David Hausman, and Wentao Weng
  2. "Two-Sided Flexibility in Platforms." Freund, Daniel, Sebastien Martin, and Jiayu Zhao
    • Major Revision in Operations Research (2025).
    • A version of this paper was accepted for presentation at MSOM 2024 and RMP 2024
    • Winner of the 2024 ORC Best Student Paper Award
  3. "Group fairness in dynamic refugee assignment." Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, Elisabeth Paulson, Bradley Sturt, and Wentao Weng
    • Major Revision in Operations Research (2025).
    • An earlier version of this paper was accepted for presentation at EC 2023, FORC 2023 & the 2023 Marketplace Innovation Workshop
    • My talk at TOC4Fairness
  4. "Spatial Matching under Multihoming." Amanihamedani, Alireza, Ali Aouad, and Daniel Freund
    • Major Revision in Operations Research (2024).
    • A version of this paper was accepted for presentation at RMP 2023
  5. "On the Power of Delayed Flexibility: Balls, Bins, and a Few Opaque Promotions." Freund, Daniel, Chamsi Hssaine, and Jiayu Zhao
    • Major Revision in Operations Research (2026).
  6. "Online matching and market imbalance." Barrientos, Benjamin, Daniel Freund, and Daniela Saban.
  7. "Toward Practical Robustness Auditing for Linear Regression." Freund, Daniel and Samuel B. Hopkins

Other published articles, Op-eds, and book chapters

Refereed conference publications not listed above