Data Mining, Information Technology Modeling, Supply Chain Management

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Paat Rusmevichientong received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997, his M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford in 1999 and 2003 respectively. He joined the Cornell faculty in 2004 after having worked as a Software Engineer for Amazon.com in Seattle, WA. Professor Rusmevichientong was the first prize recipient of the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award in 2003. The award is given for the dissertation that is the most innovative and relevant to the practice of operations research and the management sciences.

His research interests include dynamic programming, decentralized decision making, probalistic inference and data mining. With advances in database technology and widespread access to the internet, companies now have access to large amount of data such as web logs and point-of-sale information. His research interests focus on identifying opportunities for using these data to help companies and organizations make better decisions. The research involves developing mathematical models and identifying efficient algorithms for handling large datasets.

Select Publications

“Opportunities and Challenges in Using Online Preference Data for Vehicle Pricing: A Case Study at General Motors''. Submitted to Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management. (With J. A. Salisbury, L. T. Truss, B. Van Roy, and P. W. Glynn)

“A Non-Parametric Approach to Multi-Product `Pricing''. To appear in Operations Research. (With B. Van Roy, and P. W. Glynn)

“Solitaire: Man Versus Machine''. To appear in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17, MIT Press (2005). (With X. Yan, P. Diaconis and B. Van Roy)

“Identifying Early Buyers Using Purchase Data''. Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference (August 2004). (With S. Zhu, and D. Selinger)

“Decentralized Decision-Making in a Large Team with Local Information''. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 43, No. 2,. 266 - 295. (2003). (With B. Van Roy)

“A Tractable POMDP for a Class of Sequencing Problems''. Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (2001). (With B. Van Roy)

Awards and Recognition

First prize recipient of the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2003

Stanford Graduate Fellowship

UC Berkeley Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize in Mathematics