Kasra Ganjizadeh Tari

Job Market Candidate · 2026–27

Kasra Ganjizadeh Tari

Ph.D. candidate in Business Analytics and Operations at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.

kag339@pitt.eduOffice: 241 Mervis HallDownload CV
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About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Business Analytics and Operations at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. My research lies at the intersection of operations management and economics, focusing on pricing and revenue management, marketplace design and platform operations, and product development. My work combines game-theoretic modeling with applied operations research and data analytics.

Before Pittsburgh, I trained as a mechanical engineer, earning my M.S. from Politecnico di Milano and my B.S. from Sharif University of Technology. I have passed CFA Level II and speak English, Persian, and Italian.

Education

  • University of Pittsburgh2022 – expected 2027

    Ph.D. in Business Analytics and Operations (minor: Information Science). Graduate coursework in finance equivalent to an MS in finance (30 credits).

  • Politecnico di Milano2022

    M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

  • Sharif University of Technology2019

    B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Honors & Awards

  • Doris & Douglas Bernstein Doctoral Student Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh2025
  • Sheth PhD Fellowship Award, University of Pittsburgh2025
  • Rockwell Foundation Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh2022–2026
  • Joseph M. Katz Doctoral Program Fellowship & Dean’s Merit Award, University of Pittsburgh2022
  • CFA Program Student Scholarship, CFA Institute2025–2026
  • DSU Scholarship, Politecnico di Milano2020–2021

Research

Research Interests

Revenue Management & PricingDigital EconomicsMarketplace Design & Platform OperationsProduct DevelopmentApplied Operations Research & Data Analytics

Working Papers

Author ordering is alphabetical, as is convention in OR/MS.

  1. 1.Unit-Demand Pricing for Min-Buying Customers

    Submitted to Operations Research

    Titing Cui, Kasra Ganjizadeh Tari, Michael L. Hamilton, Jourdain Lamperski

  2. 2.Selling Roses on Online Dating Platforms

    Working paper

    Arian Aflaki, Kasra Ganjizadeh Tari, Michael L. Hamilton, Enfeng Xing

Work in Progress

  1. 1.Rating-Driven Product Development

    Kasra Ganjizadeh Tari, Michael L. Hamilton, Qian Zhang

  2. 2.Release Scheduling for Licensed Media

    Mike Gordon, Kasra Ganjizadeh Tari, Michael L. Hamilton, Jennifer Shang

Selected Presentations

  1. Rating-Driven Product Development

    INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2026, upcoming); POMS Annual Conference, Reno, NV (2026, presented by coauthor).

  2. Selling Roses on Online Dating Platforms

    MSOM Annual Conference (2026); INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (2025); Philadelphia Operations Day, Philadelphia, PA (2025).

  3. Unit-Demand Pricing for Min-Buying Customers

    INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Houston, TX (2024, presented by coauthor); INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (2024, presented by coauthor); NY Operations Day (2024).

  4. Release Scheduling for Licensed Media

    POMS Annual Conference (2024).

Teaching

I have led undergraduate and master's courses in business analytics and data mining, and supported MBA and EMBA instruction in statistics — recognized with the Bernstein Doctoral Student Teaching Award at Pitt.

My teaching website

Instructor & Course Lead — University of Pittsburgh

  • Business Analytics 1 (BUSQOM 0101, undergraduate)Summer 2026 · Evaluation: 4.2/5.0
  • Data Mining (BQOM 2578, master's)Spring 2025 · Evaluation: 4.7/5.0

Teaching Assistant — University of Pittsburgh

  • Statistical Analysis: Uncertainty, Prediction, and Quality Improvement (MBA & EMBA)2023, 2024
  • Data Mining (undergraduate)Fall 2024

Grader / Teaching Assistant — Sharif University of Technology

  • Thermodynamics II (undergraduate)
  • Strength of Materials I / Mechanics of Materials I (undergraduate)

CV

Curriculum Vitae

Latest updated September 2026. References available upon request.

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ProgrammingPython, R, MATLAB, LaTeX
LanguagesEnglish, Persian, Italian
MembershipsINFORMS, POMS, MSOM
VolunteeringACM EAAMO (2025)

Papers

  1. Unit-Demand Pricing for Min-Buying Customers

    Submitted to Operations Research

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  2. Selling Roses on Online Dating Platforms

    Working paper

    Preliminary draft — work in progress; please do not cite or circulate.

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  3. Rating-Driven Product Development

    Work in progress

    Preliminary draft — work in progress; available upon request. Please do not cite or circulate.

    Available upon request