Rim Hariss
Title:
Assistant Professor, Operations Management
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
- Alley, M., Biggs, M., Hariss, R., Hermann, C., Li, M., Perakis, G., Pricing for Heterogeneous Products: Analytics of Ticket Reselling, Articles in Advance in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Biggs, M., Hariss, R., Perakis, G., Optimizing Objective Functions Determined from Random Forests, Articles in Advance in Production and Operations Management
- Hariss, R., Perakis, G., Sinchaisri, W., Zheng, Y., Markdown Pricing with Quality Perception, major revision in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Hariss, R. , Perakis, G., Zheng, Y., Promotions in the Presence of Rewards Programs, working paper
- Hariss, R. , Sun, W., Gifford, W., Location-based Audience Segmentation and Personalized Geo-targeting via Random Walks, working paper
Control and Equilibrium Models
- Thai, J., Hariss, R., Bayen, A., A Multi-convex Approach to Latency Inference and Control in Traffic Equilibria from Sparse Data, American Control Conference (ACC), 2015, 689-695
- Thai, J., Hariss, R., Bayen, A., Approximate Bilevel Programming via Pareto Optimization for Imputation and Control of Optimization and Equilibrium Models, European Control Conference (ECC), 2015, 322-327
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
- 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
