Mehdi Farahani

I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at  C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. Prior to joining University of Houston, I was an assistant professor at University of Miami, and a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, Center for Transportation & Logistics. I received my Ph.D. in Operations Management from Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas. 

My research interests include policy design for social goods, operations management for societal impact, market design, service operations management, and supply-chain contracting. My research has appeared in leading outlets including Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management.  My work has also received several distinctions, including winning the INFORMS MIF Best Paper Competition and earning an Honorable Mention for the POMS Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management Best Paper Award, and has been featured in INFORMS Analytics Collections.

At UH, I teach across PhD, MBA/EMBA, and graduate programs, including Demand and Supply Integration, Executive MBA Supply Chain Management, and a PhD course on Game Theory and its applications. I also serve on multiple doctoral dissertation committees. My PhD students' research has won runner-up at the POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Competition. 

I currently serve as an Associate Editor at Decision Sciences.