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. "Bundling or Discounting? Field Experiments for Healthy and Unhealthy Food," with M. Cohen, and S. Ray. Major revision at Management Science

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

Working Papers

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

5. "Wait-or-Buy: Perishables with a Too-Good-To-Go Channel," with Bekci, R. Y., Working paper

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

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

Books

8. 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