Prof. Guillermo GALLEGO Awarded the INFORMS 2021 Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize

Prof. Guillermo GALLEGO, Crown Worldwide Professor of Engineering and the department head of IEDA, received the 2021 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize. The awarded paper “A Markov Chain Approximation to Choice Modeling” was co-written with Prof. Jose BLANCHET, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and Prof. Vineet GOYAL, Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, and was published in Operations Research (Volume 64) in 2016. This prestigious award is presented to the best contribution to the science of pricing and revenue management published in English over the past five years. This is the second time that Prof. Gallego received this distinguished award (first time was in 2005).

 

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