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Rim Hariss

Title: 
Assistant Professor, Operations Management
Rim Hariss
Contact Information
Email address: 
rim.hariss [at] mcgill.ca
Alternate email address: 
nathalie.beaupre [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Bronfman Building [Map]
1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
H3A 1G5

Degree(s): 

PhD in Operations Research (2019), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

MS  in Applied Mathematics (2014), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, FRANCE

BS in Mathematics and Engineering (2013), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, FRANCE

Area(s): 
Operations Management
Link(s): 
Curriculum Vitae
Office: 
530
Courses: 

MGCR 472- Operations Management

MGSC 434- Data-driven models for Operations Analytics

MGSC 695- Decision Analytics and Modelling for Operations

Group: 
Faculty
Tenured & Tenure Track
Research areas: 
Big Data & Machine Learning
Data Analytics
Dynamic Pricing & Inventory Control
Empirical/Behavioral Operations Management
Retail Operations Management
Revenue Management
Selected publications: 

Operations Management / Operations Research

 

  • Hariss, R., Perakis G., Zheng Y. Dynamic Pricing with Consumer Point Dynamics in Reward Programs. Working Paper. 

  • Hariss R., Pouliot G. Stable and Interpretable Distillation of Black Box Models: The Average Tree Approach. Working Paper.

 

Control and Equilibrium Models

 

 

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

Awards

  • 2019 Finalist MSOM Practice Based Research Competition for Pricing for Heterogeneous Products: Analytics of Ticket Reselling
  • 2018 Winner of INFORMS Data Mining Best Theoretical Paper Competition for Optimizing Objective Functions Determined from Random Forests
  • 2017 Runner-up Best Operations Research Center Student Paper- MIT for Markdown Pricing with Quality Perception and Optimism

 

Grants and Fellowships

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant (IDG)

               Role: Principal Investigator.

               Title: Behavioral Pricing in Luxury Retail: The Role of Cross-Market Deal Seeking Funding

               Length: 2025 –2027

               Funding Amount: $53,224 (Share: 100%).

               Co-applicants: Gopalakrishnan, S; Ray, S. 

  • Internal Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant.
    Role: Principal Investigator.
    Title: Optimal Promotional Budget Allocation for Jointly Maximizing Revenue and Customer Retention in Subscription Retailing
    Length: 2021-2023.
    Total Amount: $5,000 (Share: 100%).
  • McGill Startup Grant: Amount: $45,000, 2019-2022
  • Jean Gaillard Fellowship award, 2014
  • Egide grant awarded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2011-2014
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