Selected Journal Publications
- "Good Prophets Know When the End is Near." Banerjee, Siddhartha and Daniel Freund. Forthcoming at Management Science. 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
- "Fair Incentives for Repeated Engagement." Freund, Daniel and Chamsi Hssaine. Forthcoming at Production & Operations Management. arXiv Preprint.
- An earlier version of this paper was accepted at WINE 2023
- "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.
- An earlier version of this paper was accepted at COLT 2022
- My talk in the SNAPP seminar series
- Finalist for the 2022 INFORMS APS Best Student Paper Award
- "Overbooking with Bounded Loss." Freund, Daniel, and Jiayu Zhao. Mathematics of Operations Research. Vol. 48, No. 3 (2023): 1344-1363. arXiv Preprint.
- An earlier version of this paper was accepted at EC 2021
- Kamessi's (Jiayu's) talk at EC
- "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
- "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
- "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.
- Accepted for presentation at the 2021 Marketplace Innovation Workshop
- Featured in the INFORMS Analytics Collection on Online Marketplaces
- Our talk at INFORMS
- Finalist for the 2020 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Paper Competition
- "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.
- "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.
- Our talk at INFORMS.
- Featured in the INFORMS Analytics Collection on Online Marketplaces.
- Winner of the 2018 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Paper Competition.
Working Papers
- "The Dedicated Docket in U.S. Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties." 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
- "On the Supply of Autonomous Technologies in Open Platforms." Freund, Daniel, Ilan Lobel, and Jiayu Zhao
- Versions of this paper were accepted for presentation at MSOM SC SIG 2024, EC 2024, and RMP 2023
- My talk at the MIT Mobility Forum
- "Two-Sided Flexibility in Platforms." Freund, Daniel, Sebastien Martin, and Jiayu Zhao
- A version of this paper was accepted for presentation at MSOM 2024 and RMP 2024
- Winner of the 2024 ORC Best Student Paper Award
- "Quantifying the Cost of Learning in Queueing Systems." Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, and Wentao Weng
- An earlier version of this paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2023
- "Group fairness in dynamic refugee assignment." Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, Elisabeth Paulson, Bradley Sturt, and Wentao Weng
- An earlier version of this paper was accepted for presentation at EC 2023, FORC 2023 & the 2023 Marketplace Innovation Workshop
- My talk at TOC4Fairness
- "Spatial Matching under Multihoming." Amanihamedani, Alireza, Ali Aouad, and Daniel Freund
- A version of this paper was accepted for presentation at RMP 2023
- "Pricing Fast and Slow: Limitations of Dynamic Pricing Mechanisms in Ride-Hailing." Freund, Daniel and Garrett J. van Ryzin
- 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
- "Toward Practical Robustness Auditing for Linear Regression." Freund, Daniel and Samuel B. Hopkins
- "End-of-Horizon Load Balancing Problems: Algorithms and Insights." Freund, Daniel, Chamsi Hssaine, and Jiayu Zhao
Other published articles, Op-eds, and book chapters
- "Improving Refugees’ Integration with Online Resource Allocation." Freund, Daniel, Communications of the ACM.
- "Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future." Gomes, Carla, et al. Communications of the ACM Vol. 62, No. 9 (2019): 55-65.
- "Data-Driven Rebalancing Methods for Bike-Share Systems." Freund, Daniel, Ashkan Norouzi-Fard, Alice Paul, Carter Wang Shane G. Henderson, and David B. Shmoys. In Analytics for the Sharing Economy: Mathematics, Engineering and Business Perspectives, edited by Bissan Ghaddar, Emanuele Crisostomi, Florian Häusler, Joe Naoum-Sawaya, and Robert Shorten, 255-278. Springer, 2020.
- "Bike Sharing." Freund, Daniel, Shane G. Henderson, and David B. Shmoys. In Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand, edited by Ming Hu, 435-459. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019.
- "How Bike Sharing Can Be More Efficient." Freund, Daniel. Scientific American. (2019).
- "Rank Aggregation: New Bounds for MCx." Freund, Daniel and David P. Williamson. Discrete Applied Mathematics Vol. 252, No. 10 (2019): 28-36.
- "Contagious Sets in Dense Graphs." Freund, Daniel, Matthias Poloczek, and Daniel Reichman. European Journal of Combinatorics Vol. 68, (2018): 66-78.
Refereed conference publications not listed above
- "Bike Angels: An Analysis of Citi Bike's Incentive Program." Daniel Freund, Hangil Chung, and David B. Shmoys. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, San Jose, CA: June 2018.
- Best Paper Award
- "Simulation Optimization for a Large-scale Bike-sharing System." Nanjing Jian, Daniel Freund, Holly M. Wiberg, and Shane G. Henderson. In Proceedings of the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference, Arlington, VA: December 2016.
- "Secure Physical Computation using Disposable Circuits." Daniel Freund, Ben Fisch, and Moni Naor. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual IACR Theory of Cryptography Conference TCC 2015: Theory of Cryptography, edited by Jesper Buus Nielsen and Yevgeniy Dodis. Warsaw, Poland: March 2015.
- "Physical Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Physical Properties." Daniel Freund, Ben Fisch, and Moni Naor. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2014: Advances in Cryptology, edited by Juan A. Garay and Rosario Gennaro. Santa Barbara, CA: August 2014.