👋 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 centers on socially responsible operations—how operational decision-making affects society and the people it serves. In particular, I design and analyze online algorithms and mechanisms for human-centric decision-making in the operations of platforms and nonprofit organizations, with applications ranging from algorithmic hiring and dynamic resource allocation to crowdfunding for education.
📄 Papers
Published/Accepted Papers
- Online Job Selection: Reward Rate vs. Remaining Value — Forthcoming in Management Science — with Will Ma (Columbia GSB) and Linwei Xin (Cornell)
- Featured in Chicago Booth Review: At the E-Commerce Warehouse, a Distribution Dilemma; and How E-commerce Platforms Should Deal with Your Multiple Orders
- Markovian Search with Ex-Ante Constraints: Theory and Applications to Socially Aware Algorithmic Hiring — Forthcoming in Management Science, Appeared in EAAMO 2024 — with Vahideh Manshadi (Yale SOM) and Rad Niazadeh (Chicago Booth)
- Featured in Chicago Booth Review: Algorithms and AI Can Make Hiring More Diverse
- Third Place, IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award — INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023
Working Papers
- Fundraising for Education: Optimizing Crowdfunding Platforms (Job Market Paper) — with Rad Niazadeh (Chicago Booth). PDF available upon request.
- Optimal Bayesian Online Allocation of Reusable Resources — with Rad Niazadeh (Chicago Booth) and Pranav Nuti (Chicago Booth)
- Stationary Online Contention Resolution Schemes — Major Revision at Operations Research, Appeared in EC 2026 — with Rad Niazadeh (Chicago Booth) and Pranav Nuti (Chicago Booth)
- Finalist, Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize — INFORMS Auctions and Market Design (AMD) Section (Entrant: Pranav Nuti)
Workshop Notes
- Magicians Don’t Move: An Easy Peasy OCRS — with Rad Niazadeh (Chicago Booth) and Pranav Nuti (Chicago Booth)
- A Match Made by Entropy — with Rad Niazadeh (Chicago Booth) and Pranav Nuti (Chicago Booth)
Abstracts, and my research overview and vision, are on the Research 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 in the top menu, along with more ways to connect in the sidebar.