{"id":276,"date":"2023-01-04T18:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/dfreund\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:15:28","slug":"research-and-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/dfreund\/research-and-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-276\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-276-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-276-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-276-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_mit-pf-wysiwyg widget_mit_pf_wysiwyg panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><h2 class=\"widget-title\">Selected Journal Publications (incl. minor revisions)<\/h2><div class=\"textwidget\"><ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4785713#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"The Dedicated Docket in U.S. Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties.\"<\/a> Minor Revision in <em>Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management<\/em> (2026). Freund, Daniel and Wentao Weng\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier versions of this paper were accepted at EC 2024 and EAAMO 2024<\/li>\n<li><strong>Runner-up for the 2024 Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner of the <\/strong><strong>2024 Service Science Best DEIJ Paper Award<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2308.07817\">\"The Transient Cost of Learning in Queueing Systems.\"<\/a> Minor Revision in <em>Operations Research<\/em> (2025). Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, and Wentao Weng\n<ul>\n<li>An earlier version of this paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1287\/msom.2024.1175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"On the Supply of Autonomous Technologies in Open Platforms.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, Ilan Lobel, and Jiayu Zhao. Forthcoming in <em>Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management<\/em>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4178508\">SSRN Preprint.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Versions of this paper were accepted for presentation at MSOM SC SIG 2024, EC 2024, and RMP 2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MHZ17S3qypI\">My talk at the MIT Mobility Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0968090X25003183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Pricing Fast and Slow: Limitations of Dynamic Pricing Mechanisms in Ride-Hailing.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel and Garrett J. van Ryzin. Forthcoming at <em>Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3931844\">SSRN Preprint.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A version of this paper was accepted for presentation at the EC 2021 Workshop on the Design of Online Platforms and at MSOM 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cFDzdRO-jt4\">My talk at Cornell<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1287\/mnsc.2023.04307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Good Prophets Know When the End is Near.\"<\/a> Banerjee, Siddhartha and Daniel Freund. <em>Management Science<\/em>. Vol. 71, No. 6 (2025): 4877-4894. <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3479189\">SSRN Preprint<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li>An earlier version of this paper was accepted at SIGMETRICS 2020<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EYOo-KMrenc\">My talk at Simons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner of the 2021 INFORMS APS Best Publication Award<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/10591478241273874?icid=int.sj-full-text.citing-articles.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Fair Incentives for Repeated Engagement.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel and Chamsi Hssaine.<em>Production &amp; Operations Management<\/em>. Vol. 34, No. 1 (2025): 16-29. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2111.00002.pdf\">arXiv Preprint<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li>An earlier version of this paper was accepted at WINE 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1287\/opre.2022.0291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Efficient Decentralized Multi-agent Learning in Asymmetric Bipartite Queuing Systems.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, and Wentao Weng. <em>Operations Research<\/em>. Vol. 72, No. 3 (2024): 1049-1070. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2206.03324.pdf\">arXiv Preprint<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li>An earlier version of this paper was accepted at COLT 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2zXVK4Em0VY\">My talk in the SNAPP seminar series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Finalist for the 2022 INFORMS APS Best Student Paper Award<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/moor.2022.1293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Overbooking with Bounded Loss.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, and Jiayu Zhao. <em>Mathematics of Operations Research<\/em>. Vol. 48, No. 3 (2023): 1344-1363. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2204.11148.pdf\">arXiv Preprint<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li>An earlier version of this paper was accepted at EC 2021<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BIYaMyaLaQ0\">Kamessi's (Jiayu's) talk at EC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/opre.2022.2320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Minimizing Multimodular Functions and Allocating Capacity in Bike-Sharing Systems.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, Shane G. Henderson, and David B. Shmoys. <em>Operations Research<\/em>.Vol. 70, No. 5 (2022): 2715-2731.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1611.09304.pdf\">arXiv Preprint<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/suppl\/10.1287\/opre.2022.2320\/suppl_file\/opre.2022.2320.sm1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supplemental Materials.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>An earlier version of this paper was accepted at IPCO 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner of the MSOM Best OM Paper in <em>Operations Research<\/em>\u00a0Award 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Finalist for the 2017 INFORMS George Nicholson Paper Award and the 2018 POM Applied Research Challenge<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/opre.2021.2165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Pricing and Optimization in Shared Vehicle Systems: An Approximation Framework.\"<\/a> Banerjee, Siddhartha, Daniel Freund, and Thodoris Lykouris.<em> Operations Research<\/em> Vol. 70, No. 3 (2022): 1783-1805. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1608.06819.pdf\">arXiv Preprint.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>An earlier version of this paper was accepted for presentation at EC 2017 &amp; the 2017 Marketplace Innovation Workshop<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K_q6tMmOyuc\">Thodoris's talk at EC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Finalist for the 2017 INFORMS APS Best Student Paper Award<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/inte.2021.1091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Driver Positioning and Incentive Budgeting with an Escrow Mechanism for Ridesharing Platforms.\"<\/a> Yi Ong, Hao, Daniel Freund, and Davide Crapis. <em>INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics<\/em>. Vol 51, No. 5 (2021): 373-390. <a href=\"http:\/\/Driver Positioning and Incentive Budgeting with an Escrow Mechanism for Ridesharing Platforms\">arXiv Preprint.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Accepted for presentation at the 2021\u00a0Marketplace Innovation Workshop<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/informs-analytics-collections\/online-marketplaces\/on-demand-platforms\">Featured in the INFORMS Analytics Collection on Online Marketplaces<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dr-eKymTACg\">Our talk at INFORMS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Basis for Patent <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US12430701B1\/en\">US12430701B1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Finalist for the 2020 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Paper Competition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/moor.2019.1002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Budgeted Prize-Collecting Traveling Salesman and Minimum Spanning Tree Problems.\"<\/a> Paul, Alice, Daniel Freund, Aaron Ferber, David B. Shmoys, and David P. Williamson. <em>Mathematics of Operations Research<\/em> Vol. 45, No. 2 (2020): 576\u2013590. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/epdf\/10.1287\/moor.2022.1340\">Erratum<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li>An earlier version of this paper was accepted at ESA 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/inte.2019.1005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Analytics and Bikes: Riding Tandem with Motivate to Improve Mobility.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, Shane G. Henderson, Eoin O'Mahony, and David B. Shmoys. <em>INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics<\/em> Vol. 49, No. 5 (2019): 310-323.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/78sGrEFOHUQ\">Our talk at INFORMS<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/informs-analytics-collections\/online-marketplaces\/resource-sharing-platforms\">Featured in the INFORMS Analytics Collection on Online Marketplaces<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner of the 2018 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Paper Competition.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-276-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_mit-pf-wysiwyg widget_mit_pf_wysiwyg\" data-index=\"1\" ><h2 class=\"widget-title\">Working Papers<\/h2><div class=\"textwidget\"><ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5284321\">\"Regulating wait-driven requests in queues.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, David Hausman, and Wentao Weng\n<ul>\n<li>Major Revision in <em>Management Science<\/em>\u00a0(2025).<\/li>\n<li>An early version of this paper was accepted at EC 2025<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1FQorKlLjcA&amp;t=906s\">My talk at the MIT SERC Symposium<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2404.04709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Two-Sided Flexibility in Platforms.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, Sebastien Martin, and Jiayu Zhao\n<ul>\n<li>Major Revision in <em>Operations Research<\/em> (2025).<\/li>\n<li>A version of this paper was accepted for presentation at MSOM 2024 and RMP 2024<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner of the 2024 ORC Best Student Paper Award<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2301.10642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Group fairness in dynamic refugee assignment.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, Elisabeth Paulson, Bradley Sturt, and Wentao Weng\n<ul>\n<li>Major Revision in <em>Operations Research<\/em> (2025).<\/li>\n<li>An earlier version of this paper was accepted for presentation at EC 2023, FORC 2023 &amp; the 2023 Marketplace Innovation Workshop<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CUX7iIkYpng\">My talk at TOC4Fairness<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4488342\">\"Spatial Matching under Multihoming.\"<\/a> Amanihamedani, Alireza, Ali Aouad, and Daniel Freund\n<ul>\n<li>Major Revision in <em>Operations Research<\/em> (2024).<\/li>\n<li>A version of this paper was accepted for presentation at RMP 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2306.01968\">\"On the Power of Delayed Flexibility: Balls, Bins, and a Few Opaque Promotions.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, Chamsi Hssaine, and Jiayu Zhao\n<ul>\n<li>Major Revision in <em>Operations Research<\/em> (2026).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2502.07731\">\"Online matching and market imbalance.\"<\/a> Barrientos, Benjamin, Daniel Freund, and Daniela Saban.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6208698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"The Value of a Little Flexibility in Stable Matching.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, Sebastien Martin, and Jiayu Zhao<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2307.16315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Toward Practical Robustness Auditing for Linear Regression.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel and Samuel B. Hopkins<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-276-0-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_mit-pf-wysiwyg widget_mit_pf_wysiwyg\" data-index=\"2\" ><h2 class=\"widget-title\">Other published articles, Op-eds, and book chapters<\/h2><div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1145\/3639539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"<\/a><a class=\"gsc_oci_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3639539\" data-clk=\"hl=en&amp;sa=T&amp;ei=yR8UZrexLtPLy9YPkpyZkAQ\">Improving Refugees\u2019 Integration with Online Resource Allocation<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3339399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, <em>Communications of the ACM<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3339399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future.\"<\/a> Gomes, Carla, et al. <em>Communications of the ACM<\/em> Vol. 62, No. 9 (2019): 55-65.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-35032-1_15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Data-Driven Rebalancing Methods for Bike-Share Systems.\"<\/a> 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 H\u00e4usler, Joe Naoum-Sawaya, and Robert Shorten, 255-278. Springer, 2020.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-01863-4_18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Bike Sharing.\"<\/a> 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.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/blog\/observations\/how-bike-sharing-can-be-more-efficient\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"How Bike Sharing Can Be More Efficient.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel. <em>Scientific American<\/em>.\u00a0(2019).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0166218X17303426?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Rank Aggregation: New Bounds for MCx.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel and David P. Williamson. <em>Discrete Applied Mathematics<\/em> Vol. 252, No. 10 (2019): 28-36.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0195669817301191?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Contagious Sets in Dense Graphs.\"<\/a> Freund, Daniel, Matthias Poloczek, and Daniel Reichman.<em> European Journal of Combinatorics<\/em> Vol. 68, (2018): 66-78.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-276-0-0-3\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_mit-pf-wysiwyg widget_mit_pf_wysiwyg panel-last-child\" data-index=\"3\" ><h2 class=\"widget-title\">Refereed conference publications not listed above<\/h2><div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3209811.3209866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Bike Angels: An Analysis of Citi Bike's Incentive Program.\"<\/a> 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.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7822125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Simulation Optimization for a Large-scale Bike-sharing System.\"<\/a> Nanjing Jian, Daniel Freund, Holly M. Wiberg, and Shane G. Henderson. In Proceedings of the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference, Arlington, VA: December 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-662-46494-6_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Secure Physical Computation using Disposable Circuits.\"<\/a> 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.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-662-44381-1_18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Physical Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Physical Properties.\"<\/a> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected Journal Publications (incl. minor revisions) &#8220;The Dedicated Docket in U.S. Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties.&#8221; Minor Revision in Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management (2026). 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