Dragos Florin Ciocan

About Me

I am currently an assistant professor of technology and operations management at INSEAD's campus in Fontainebleau, France. My research interests are broadly in analytics and revenue management. My recent work has focused on understanding the behavior of large online advertising markets, interpretable decision making, and designing optimization methods for massive scale data.

I obtained my PhD in Operations Management in 2014 from MIT Sloan, where I had the pleasure of working with Professor Vivek Farias. Before that, I completed my BA degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Harvard College, completing my undergrad thesis with Professor Salil Vadhan. 

I have spent time working at Google Research NYC, and in Morgan Stanley's fixed income division.

Journal Publications

1. Price Delegation with Learning Agents, with Atalay Atasu and Antoine Desir, forthcoming in Management Science. 

2. Fair Resource Allocation in a Volatile Marketplace, with MohammadHossein Bateni, Yiwei Chen and Vahab Mirrokni, Operations Research.  

3. Truthful Equilibrium in Sponsored Search with Endogenous Budgets, with Krishnamurthy Iyer, Operations Research.

4. Revenue Management with Repeated Customer Interactions, with Andre Calmon and Gonzalo Romero, Management Science.

5. Interpretable Optimal Stopping, with Velibor Mišić, Management Science.

6. Efficient Ranking and Selection in Parallel Computing Environments, with Eric Ni, Shane Henderson and Susan Hunter, Operations Research.

7. Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Resource Allocation, with Vivek Farias, Mathematics of Operations Research.

Working Papers

1. Quantifying the Benefits of Targeting for Pandemic Response, with Sergio Gomez, Dan Iancu, Xavier Warnes and Spyros Zoumpoulis, under review.

2. A Distributed Scheme for Solving Massive Scale Allocation Linear Programs, with MohammadHossein Bateni, Vivek Farias and Vahab Mirrokni.

3. Fast Demand Learning for Ad-Display Allocation, with Vivek Farias.

Conference Publications

1. Fair Resource Allocation in A Volatile Marketplace, with MohammadHossein Bateni, Yiwei Chen and Vahab Mirrokni, EC2016.

2. Comparing Message Passing Interface and MapReduce for large-scale parallel ranking and selection, with Eric Ni, Shane Henderson and Susan Hunter, WSC 2015.

3. Interactive and Noninteractive Zero Knowledge are Equivalent in the Help Model, with Andre Chailloux, Iordanis Kerenidis and Salil Vadhan, Theory of Cryptography Conference 2008.