I am an Applied Scientist at Uber, working on Dynamic Pricing. I use my knowledge and experience in Optimization, Statistics and Machine Learning to develop and deploy algorithms that guide pricing and operations strategies.

NEWS!

• Oct 2023 - Very excited to join the Trip Pricing team at Uber as an Applied Scientist! Looking forward to learning and working with such a talented team on the challenges of dynamic pricing!

• Jul 2023 - Our paper “Impatient or Selective? Estimation of Customer Preference in Scheduling Attended Home Delivery” was submitted (available in SSRN)! 

• Jan 2022 - Our paper  “The Value of Information and Flexibility with Temporal Commitments” forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management!

• Jun 2021 - So excited to join the Data Science team at Flexport!! Looking forward to working on the challenges of global trade logistics! 

• Apr 2021 - On April the 28th 2021 I defended my dissertation! So thankful for having such a great and distinguished committee: Sunil Chopra, Maria Ibanez, Simge Küçükyavuz, Karen Smilowitz and Jan Van Mieghem.

• Jan 2021- Thankful to be invited to present my work at Schulich School of Business, York University, and at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University!

• Jan 2021- I am honored and thankful to be invited to present at the Northwestern University IEMS seminars, as the recipient of the Nemhauser Best Paper Award!

• Dec 2021- Thankful to be invited to present my work at Georgia Tech H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and at the Business School of City, University of London.

• Oct 2020 - I am presenting at INFORMS in two sessions:

- Demand Visibility and Capacity Pooling in Contracts with Commitments. Session: TD29. Nov 10, 2020, 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM (Link to video)

- Estimation of Customer Preferences in Attended Home Delivery. Session: WD24. Nov 11, 2020, 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM (Link to video)

• Aug 2020 - Our paper  “The Value of Information and Flexibility with Temporal Commitments” is now under Major Revision in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management!

• Jul 2020 - I have been awarded a Terminal Year Fellowship and a NUTC Dissertation Year Fellowship! 

• May 2020 -  Two articles published. It is quite nice to read your own work in a journal format.

 - “Partial Information and Commitment in Dynamic Transportation Procurement”. Transportation Science .

 - “Estimating and Optimizing the Impact of Inventory on Consumer Choices in a Fashion Retail Setting”. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 

• Feb 2020 - Our papers featured in an article in Kellogg Insight! It is so interesting to read about your stuff from other people’s words, especially from such talented writers. I love how the writer presents our results. (Link.)

• Nov 2019 - This is SO EXCITING! We just won the Nemhauser Prize for Best Paper: “The Value of Information and Flexibility with Temporal Commitments”, co-authored with Sunil Chopra and Karen Smilowitz. 

• Oct 2019 - We have submitted our work:

Boada-Collado P,  Chopra S, Smilowitz K. (2019). “The Value of Information and Flexibility with Temporal Commitments”. Submitted. (Available at SSRN)

• Oct 2019 - the paper "Partial Information and Commitment in Dynamic Transportation Procurement" has been accepted in Transportation Science!!

• July 2019 - the paper "The Role of Partial Information and Commitment in Dynamic Transportation Procurement" is now under Minor Revision in Transportation Science. 

• May 2019 - I am very honored to be one of the three PhD students invited to present their research in the 2019 PhD Workshop on Advances in Operations Research Applied to Transportation and Logistics! It is so exciting to present my research in front of such a distinguished audience.

• May 2019 - I successfully passed my Prospectus Exam! Very happy to have had such a great committee:

                - Prof. Karen Smilowitz (chair)

                - Prof. Sunil Chopra (co-chair)

                - Prof. Simge Küçükyavuz

                - Prof. Jan A. Van Mieghem

• Feb 2019 - the paper "The Role of Partial Information and Commitment in Dynamic Transportation Procurement" is now under Major Revision in Transportation Science!

• Dec 2018 - I will be the Teaching Assistant of IEMS 365: Analytics for Social Good. See the course here.

• Oct 2018 -  Recently submitted paper:

Boada-Collado, Pol and Chopra, Sunil and Smilowitz, Karen. The Role of Partial Information and Commitment in Dynamic Transportation Procurement (July, 2018). Available at SSRN.

• Oct 2018 -  Recently accepted paper!

Boada-Collado P. and V. Martínez-de-Albéniz 2014. Estimating and Optimizing the Impact of Inventory on Consumer Choices in a Fashion Retail Setting, forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.