Nasser Barjesteh
Assistant Professor
Operations Management and Statistics
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

About Me

Nasser Barjesteh



Hello! My name is Nasser Barjesteh. I'm an Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Statistics at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. My research focuses on the analysis of complex stochastic systems with applications in service opertations, revenue management, and manufacturing. I study these systems from both the analytical and empirical perspectives. From a methodological perspective, I am interested in structural estimation, stochastic control, and stochastic modeling.

Education

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Booth School of Business
Ph.D. in Management Science/Operations Management and MBA
Dissertation: Pricing and Matching in Service and Manufacturing Systems (Link)
Advisors: Baris Ata and Sunil Kumar

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
M.Sc. in Statistics

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
B.Sc. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering

Research

Spatial pricing: An empirical analysis of taxi rides in New York City
With Baris Ata and Sunil Kumar. (Link)

Dynamic dispatch and centralized relocation of cars in ride-hailing platforms
With Baris Ata and Sunil Kumar, Major Revision at Operations Research. (Link)

An approximate analysis of dynamic pricing, outsourcing, and scheduling policies for a multiclass make-to-stock queue in the heavy traffic regime
With Baris Ata, Forthcoming at Operations Research. (Link)

Multi-class state-dependent service systems with returns
With Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi, Naval Research Logistics 2021, 68:631:662. (Link)
Service Science Section’s Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2016.

Teaching

University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
Instructor
Undergraduate, Operations Management, 2020 - Present, Evaluations: 4.4 and 4.5 (out of 5)
Ph.D., Stochastic Modeling: Approximations and Control, 2023.

The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Teaching Assistant
Executive M.B.A., Managerial Decision Modeling, 2017 - 2018, Evaluations: 4.9 and 5.0 (out of 5)
M.B.A., Managerial Decision Modeling, 2016 - 2019
M.B.A., Operations Management: Business Process Fundamentals, 2016 - 2019
M.B.A., Project Management, 2019
Ph.D., Stochastic Processes, 2017 - 2018

University of Toronto, Department of Statistics
Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate, Statistical Theory, 2013 - 2014
Undergraduate, The Practice of Statistics, 2014
Undergraduate, Probability with Computer Applications, 2014

University of Waterloo, Department of Electrical and Computer
Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate, Computer Networks, 2012 - 2013

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