Published and Accepted Papers

1. "Incentivizing Healthy Food Choices Using Add-on Bundling: A Field Experiment," with M. C. Cohen, and S. Ray, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(6):1981-2014, 2024.

   • Finalist in the 2025 Informs MIF Paper Competition

   • Second Place in the 2023 POMS CBOM Junior Scholar Paper Competition

   • Media coverage: McGill Newsroom, La Presse (in French)

2. "Data-driven conditional robust optimization," with A. R. Chenreddy, and E. Delage,  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35 (2022): 9525-9537.

Manuscripts Under Review

3. "Discounting or Add-On Bundling? Field Experiments for Healthy and Unhealthy Snacks," with M. Cohen, and S. Ray. Major revision at Management Science

   • Finalist in the 2025 Informs Service Science Best Student Paper Award

4. "Reducing Food Waste Through Social Impact Partnerships," with M. Cohen, and S. Ray, Submitted.

Working Papers

5. "Managing Clearance Availability: Strategic Waiting and Release Caps in Perishable Retail," with R. Y. Bekci, Working paper.

6. "The Summary Effect: How AI-Generated Review Summaries Influence Consumer Choice," with A. R. Chenreddy, Working paper.

7. "Causal Inference in Gamified Sustainability: Cooperation and Competition," with M. S. Shalique, and H. Saranga, Working paper.

8. "Off-Policy Optimization of Portfolio Allocation Policies under Constraints," with T. Tulabandhula, arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.11715 (2020).

Books

9. N. Bandi, M. C. Cohen, S. Ray, "Behavioral Retail Operations: Tactics to Win Customers," Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management, 2024 (ISBN 978-1-63828-437-6)

Thesis

"Behavioral Retail Operations to Incentivize Customers," Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University, June 2025

11th GERAD Excellence Scholarship Competition for the Best Doctoral Thesis