I am an assistant professor in the department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. I develop and harness tools from operations research, computer science theory, and economic theory to allocate resources more effectively and equitably. I am especially interested in market design for applications in education, the environment, and the developing world. I lead the Stanford Impact Lab on Equitable Access to Education. I was a co-organizer of the Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) research initiative, through which I had the pleasure of launching a new ACM conference series and co-chairing the 1st ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO '21). I am honored to be a William T Grant Scholar.
I am affiliated with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Stanford Golub Capital Social Impact Lab, the Stanford King Center for Global Development, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, as well as the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the economics department at Stanford University, supervised by Al Roth. I obtained my Ph.D. in operations research from Columbia University under the supervision of Jay Sethuraman and Jacob Leshno, and graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in mathematics.
You can contact me at ilo [at] stanford [dot] edu.
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Andrei Graur (co-advised with Aaron Sidford)
Anushka Murthy (co-advised with Ramesh Johari)
Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov
May 2025: Honored to have been selected as a William T Grant Scholar.
April 2025: Excited to co-organize a Rising Stars Workshop with Georgia Tech ISyE, Stanford MS&E, and Michigan IOE the Stanford MS&E PRO committee to broaden participation in research and increase ties between promising junior researchers in the areas of industrial engineering, operations research, and management science.
December 2024: Our paper "Two-sided Benefits of Price Transparency in Smallholder Supply Chains" (with Joann de Zegher & Yuan Shi) is accepted at Management Science.