Professor Gui Liberali co-editor of special section Management Science on Prescriptive Analytics
Management Science recently published a special section on Prescriptive Analytics, including a total of 20 fantastic papers, resulting from handling more than 200 submissions. Readers will find some familiar authors in there, including the recent Nobel winner Guido Imbens (Stanford University).
The special section covers a very broad list of topics and applications, including clinical trials, coupon personalization, personalized pricing, website optimization at Amazon, algorithm fairness, diffusion theory, and a lot more. Many papers in this issue are using bandits (a subset of Reinforcement Learning) and online learning.
Gui Liberali, Professor of Digital Marketing at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam is one of the co-editors of the special section. Gui will teach a summer course in Reinforcement Learning as part of the Business Data Science summer school 2022. Applications open. This course will also be offered as an elective field course in 2022-2023 and open for external participants.
It is now live as the current issue here: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4296.
Direct link to some of the papers:
Paper by Guido Imbens
Paper by RSM’s Sebastian Gabel on personalized couponing (he joined Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2022).
Paper by Dean Eckles on seeding strategies in networks
Paper on algorithm fairness
Paper on product assortment
Paper on clinical trials
Article Citation
Kay Giesecke, Gui Liberali, Hamid Nazerzadeh, J. George Shanthikumar, and Chung Piaw Teo ed., Management Science, “Introduction to the Special Section on Data-Driven Prescriptive Analytics", Volume 68, Issue 3, March 2022, Pages 1591-2376, iv-v.
Summer School with Gui Liberali on Reinforcement Learning, August 22-26, 2022
Sharpen your machine learning skillls (more specifically, in multi-armed bandits and reinforcement learning) this summer at Campus Woudestein, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Gui Liberali, Professor of Digital Marketing at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam will be running a one-week hands-on Summer course on the fundamentals and applications of multi-armed bandits. Open to and designed for students and professionals working in areas such as, but not limited to: A/B testing, online advertising, pricing, website optimization, targeting, coupons, personalization, and any sequential decision-making problems or learning algorithms.
Learn more about this course and apply.