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Biography<\/h2>\n
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Daniel Freund is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.<\/span><\/p>\n

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, among others, with the PSOR Best Paper Award (2nd place, 2024), 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<\/em> and <\/em><\/span>frequently serves on ACM program committees (e.g.<\/em>, EC, EAAMO, TheWebConf).<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>

(You may also be looking for my name-fellow and colleague,\u00a0Robert M. Freund's personal website<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Featured Research<\/h2>

\"On the Supply of Autonomous Vehicles in Platforms.\"
\n<\/strong>Daniel Freund, Jiayu (Kamessi) Zhao, and Ilan Lobel. In\u00a0Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation<\/em>, 2024. SSRN Version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"The Dedicated Docket in US Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties.\"
\n<\/strong>Daniel Freund and Wentao Weng. In\u00a0Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation<\/em>, 2024. SSRN Version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Pricing and Optimization in Shared Vehicle Systems: An Approximation Framework.<\/strong>\"<\/a>
\nSiddhartha Banerjee, Daniel Freund, and Thodoris Lykouris. Operations<\/em> Research<\/em>, Forthcoming. Download Paper.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Driver Positioning and Incentive Budgeting with an Escrow Mechanism for Ride-Sharing Platforms.\"<\/strong><\/a>
\nHao Yi Ong, Daniel Freund, Davide Crapis. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics<\/em> Vol. 51, No. 5 (2021): 373\u2013390.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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