A Brief Introduction

👋 Greetings!

I’m Mohammad Reza—a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Management Sciences / Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, advised by Prof. Rad Niazadeh. I hold an M.B.A. from Chicago Booth and dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology.

I am on the academic job market for 2026–27.

My research develops algorithms for online allocation, optimization, and mechanism design, with applications to socially responsible operations, education, nonprofits, and human-centric platforms.

This site is a window into my research, teaching, presentations, honors and awards, service, and a few personal interests—thanks for stopping by!

🔬 Research Overview

Algorithms that allocate scarce resources should serve the people on the other end of the decision, not just optimize a number.

I study online decision-making under uncertainty in settings where algorithmic choices shape access, fairness, opportunity, and long-term social value. My work focuses on socially responsible and behaviorally aware algorithms for operations, with applications in hiring, education, nonprofit operations, platform design, and other human-centric systems.

Methodologically, I develop models, policies, and insights, drawing on online algorithms, stochastic optimization, mechanism and information design, learning, and game theory to inform the design of efficient, adaptive, and human-centered operational systems.

Paper-level details, working papers, and workshop notes are on the Research page.

💡 Research Vision: AI and the Future of Education

As AI increasingly absorbs content delivery and personalized instruction, what should schools shift their focus to? Some of what students need most remains deeply human: belonging and teamwork, aspiration and motivation, the freedom to discover their own interests, and the cultivation of independent, analytical thinking.

To me, this is also an operations problem: if AI can absorb more of the routine work, schools can better allocate teachers’ and mentors’ limited time to the students and moments where human judgment and connection matter most.

📰 News

Recent Acceptances

• Management Science — Online Job Selection: Reward Rate vs. Remaining Value, accepted for publication.
• EC 2026 — Stationary Online Contention Resolution Schemes, accepted for publication.
• Management Science — Markovian Search with Ex-Ante Constraints: Theory and Applications to Socially Aware Algorithmic Hiring, accepted for publication.

Upcoming Talks

If you’re curious about our recent work, you are welcome to attend the following presentations by me or my wonderful coauthors:

• RMP 2026, July 22, 2026 — Fundraising for Education: Mitigating Project Starvation via Dynamic Assortment and OCRS, presented by me (Day 2, Block 3, 1:50–3:10 PM, Room R1240).
• RMP 2026, July 22, 2026 — Stationary Online Contention Resolution for Reusable Resource Allocation, presented by my coauthor Pranav Nuti (Day 2, Block 4, 3:30–5:10 PM, Room R1230).
• MSOM 2026, July 13, 2026 — Fundraising for Education: Mitigating Project Starvation via Dynamic Assortment and Online Contention Resolution, presented by me (Day 1, Session MA3, Aldrich 208, 8:30–10:00 AM).
• MSOM 2026 (poster) — Stationary Online Contention Resolution for Reusable Resource Allocation, presented by my coauthor Pranav Nuti.
• EC 2026, July 8, 2026 — Stationary Online Contention Resolution Schemes, presented by my advisor, Rad Niazadeh (Room B, 14:00–15:30).

For the full list of talks, including past ones, see the Presentations page.

📬 Contact

Email: MAminian [at] ChicagoBooth [dot] edu

Feel free to reach out—I look forward to hearing from you! You’ll also find my CV, Google Scholar, and other links in the sidebar.