Bharadwaj Kadiyala
Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Systems
David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah.
bkadiyala [at] eccles [dot] utah [dot] edu
1655 Campus Center Dr. SFEBB 7235, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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About
About
I am an Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Systems at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. My research examines the interplay between learning and economic incentives through an operational lens, with applications across traditional supply chains and content platforms.
My current work on content platforms studies how user incentives shape the consumption and generation of content, the role platforms play in information dissemination, and content moderation. Earlier work investigates learning and incentive problems in inventory management and retail operations.
Before joining Utah, I completed my PhD at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, and served as an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2017 to 2019.
Research
Research
Under Revision/Working Papers (draft available upon request)
Content Moderation as a Public Good (with W. Hwang)
Invited for presentation at 2026 Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference
Learning from Consideration Sets: Blackwell Sufficiency and Dynamic Assortments. (with D. Honhon and C. Ulu) [SSRN] [Under Review]
Finalist, 2017 POMS College of SCM Student Paper Competition (under the title "Learning from Clickstream Data in Online Retail")
Invited for presentation at 2025 MSOM Conference
Poisson Disorder Problem with Continuous Control of Costly Observations. (with S. Dayanik)
Published/Accepted Papers
Baker, G. and B. Kadiyala (2026). A System for Dynamically Tracking Content Moderation on Reddit. ACL 2026 (Systems Demo)
Please use this link to access the software system: https://github.com/kadiyala-lab/moderation-monitoring
Kadiyala, B. and D. Shin (2024). Social Learning and Content Quality Under Polarization. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26(6):2237-2255.[https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2022.0533] [SSRN]
First Place, 2023 INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Competition
Invited for presentation at 2023 MSOM Conference
Kadiyala, B., Ö. Özer, and A. S. Şimşek (2024). Dual Value of Delayed Incentives: An Empirical Investigation of Gift Card Promotions. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26(5):1806-1825. [https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2022.0218] [SSRN]
Kadiyala, B., R. Phillips, A. S. Şimşek, and G. van Ryzin (2023). 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] [SSRN]
Kadiyala, B., Ö. Özer, 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] [SSRN]
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] [SSRN]
Book Chapter
Kadiyala, B., H. Lee, and Ö. Özer (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] [SSRN]
Teaching
Teaching
I currently teach analytical decision models (introductory operations research) and statistics and predictive analytics in the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program at the David Eccles School of Business.
David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah
Spring 2026, Spring 2025, 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, The University of Texas at Dallas
Fall 2015
Operations Management
Service
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 (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
Session chair, 15th Utah Winter Operations Conference (2022)
Session chair, POMS Annual Conference (2026, 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
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