Will Ma

Roderick H. Cushman Associate Professor
Decision, Risk, and Operations, Graduate School of Business
and Data Science Institute
Columbia University

Email: wm2428 (at) gsb (dot) columbia (dot) edu
Office: Kravis 951

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Research

Teaching & Students (I am unable to respond to most inquiries regarding openings for Ph.D. positions, as admissions are handled at the departmental level.)

Service

  • Associate Editor for journals: Operations Research, Management Science
  • Program Committee for conferences: EC 2025 (senior), EC 2024 (senior), WINE 2023 (senior), EC 2023, WINE 2022, EC 2022, WINE 2021, EC 2021
  • Co-organizer of conferences: RMP 2025 (INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing section conference), DSL70 (workshop in honor of David Simchi-Levi's 70th birthday) in 2025, NYC Ops Day 2024, NYC Ops Day 2023, RMP cluster at INFORMS 2022

Miscellaneous

  I play piano at Sid Gold's karaoke bar in Manhattan! next event Wed Oct 30 7-9pm // mailing list // song list

I used to be a poker player and taught a poker course that is on MIT OpenCourseWare

I co-founded video game start-up Lunarch Studios and designed the strategy game Prismata


Some summary writings about problems I work on:

Working Papers/Under Revision (reverse chronological order of last update)

Publications (in [J] ournals and [C] onferences)