Designing School Choice for Diversity in the San Francisco Unified School District
Irene Lo, Katherine Mentzer, Mobin YahyazadenJeloudar, Henry O'Connell, Joseph Monardo & Itai Ashlagi. Accepted at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Preliminary version with authors Max Allman, Itai Ashlagi, Irene Lo, Juliette Love, Katherine Mentzer, Henry O'Connell & Lulabel Ruiz-Setz appeared in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'22), 2022, pp. 290-291.
Balancing Welfare and Distributional Goals in School Choice
Justin Hadad, Irene Lo & Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov. Accepted at the 27th Conference on Economics and Computation, 2026.
Overbooking with Preferences and Priorities: When Popularity Drives Inequality
Andrei Graur, Irene Lo & Katherine Mentzer. Major Revision at Management Science.
Preliminary version appeared in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO'23).
Information Acquisition in Matching Markets: The Role of Price Discovery
Nicole Immorlica, Jacob Leshno, Irene Lo & Brendan Lucier. Working paper.
Optimization Meets Participation: Iterative Zone Generation for School Assignment
Mobin Y. Jeloudar, Irene Lo & Katherine Mentzer. Submitted.
Best Paper Award, EAAMO 2025
Preliminary version to appear in Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO'25).
Commitment on Volunteer Crowdsourcing Platforms: Implications for Growth and Engagement
Irene Lo, Vahideh Manshadi, Scott Rodilitz & Ali Shameli. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26(5), 2024, pp. 1787-1805.
Rank-Heterogeneous Preference Models for School Choice
Amel Awadelkarim, Arjun Seshadri, Itai Ashlagi, Irene Lo & Johan Ugander. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Mining (KDD'23), 2023, pp. 47-56.
Optimizing Strategies for Post-Disaster Reconstruction of School Systems
Irene Alisjahbana, Andrei Graur, Irene Lo & Anne Kiremidjian. In Reliability Engineering & System Safety 219, 2022.
The Cutoff Structure of Top Trading Cycles in School Choice
Jacob Leshno & Irene Lo, Review of Economic Studies 88 (4), 2021, pp. 1582-1623. [online appendix]
Auctions & Market Design Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize, Second Place
Decentralized Matching in a Probabilistic Environment
Mobin Yahyazadeh Jeloudar, Irene Lo, Tristan Pollner & Amin Saberi. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'21), pp. 635-653.
Dynamic Matching in School Choice: Efficient Seat Reassignment After Late Cancellations
Itai Feigenbaum, Yash Kanoria, Irene Lo & Jay Sethuraman, Management Science 66(11), 2020, pp. 5341-5361.
Dynamic Contracting for Payment for Ecosystem Services
Irene Lo & Anushka Murthy. Submitted.
Blockchain Mediated Persuasion
Kimon Drakopoulos, Irene Lo & Justin Mulvaney. Submitted.
Preliminary version appeared in Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'23), p. 538.
Two-Sided Benefits of Price Transparency in Informal Supply Chains
Yuan Shi, Joann de Zegher & Irene Lo. Accepted at Management Science .
POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Award, 2nd place
Preliminary version appeared in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization 2022 (EAAMO'22).
Simple and Approximately Optimal Contracts for Payment for Ecosystem Services
Itai Ashlagi, Wanyi Li & Irene Lo. Management Science, 69 (12), 2023, pp.7821-7837.
Crowdsourcing Market Information from Competitors
Joann de Zegher & Irene Lo. Submitted.
Coloring Square-Free Berge Graphs
Maria Chudnovsky, Irene Lo, Frédéric Maffray, Nicolas Trotignon & Kristina Vušković, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 135 (2019), 96-128.
The Extremal Function for Disconnected Minors
Endre Csóka, Irene Lo, Sergey Norin, Hehui Wu & Liana Yepremyan, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 126 (2017), 162-174.
Decomposing & Clique-Coloring (Diamond, Odd Hole)-Free Graphs
Maria Chudnovsky & Irene Lo, Journal of Graph Theory 86(1) (2017), 5-41.
Irene Lo, working paper.
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