Research

Interests 

Content platforms, retail ops, delayed incentives, information-incentive issues

Work in Progress

• Poisson Disorder Problem with Continuous Control of Costly Observations. (with S. Dayanik)

• Signaling Quality with Delayed Incentives. (with A. Aflaki and D. Shin)

• Content Moderation and Liability. (with W. Hwang and D. Shin)

Papers Under Review/Revision

• Social Learning and Content Quality under Polarization. (with D. Shin) 

  • Minor revision at M&SOM

  • First Place, Service Science Best Cluster Paper Competition (2023)

• Learning from Consideration Sets. (with D. Honhon and C. Ulu)

Accepted/Published Papers

• Kadiyala, B., Ö. Özer, and A. Bensoussan (2020). A Mechanism Design Approach to Vendor Managed Inventory. Management Science 66(6):2628-2652. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3297 

• Kadiyala, B., Ö. Özalp, and A. S. Şimşek (2021). Data-Driven Approaches to Targeting Promotion E-mails: The Case of Delayed Incentives. Production and Operations Management, 30(3): 766-782. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13316

• Kadiyala, B., R. Phillips,  A. S. Şimşek, and G. van Ryzin (2022). Predicting Transaction Outcomes Under Customized Pricing with Discretion: A Structural Estimation Approach. Production and Operations Management, 32(6): 1654-1673. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13931

• Kadiyala, B., Ö. Özalp, and A. S. Şimşek (2024). Dual Value of Delayed Incentives: An Empirical Investigation of Gift Card Promotions. Accepted at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Book Chapter

• Kadiyala, B., Lee, H., and Özer, Ö. (2023). Information and incentives in inventory management models. In J.-S. Song (Ed.) Research Handbook on Inventory Management, Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377103.00020

Teaching

David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah

Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020

• Analytical Decision Models I (OSC 6610) and Analytical Decision Models II (OIS 6611)

• Statistics and Predictive Analytics (IS 6489)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Spring 2018, Fall 2018

• Operations Management

Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas

Fall 2015

• Operations Management

Service

Referee

Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, MSOM SiG

Activities

• Session chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)

• Session chair, 15th Utah Winter Operations Conference (2022)

• Session chair, POMS Annual Conference (2020, 2019)

• Session chair, INFORMS International Conference (2018)

• Organizing committee–Academic, MSOM Conference, Dallas (2018)

• Judge

  • INFORMS BOM Best Working Paper Competition (2023) 

  • MSOM Student Paper Competition (2018) 

  • POMS-HK Student Paper Competition (2018)

Memberships

• INFORMS, MSOM, POMS, Phi Kappa Phi