Ilan Lobel

Biography

Ilan Lobel is a Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at New York University's Stern School of Business.

He is interested in questions related to pricing, learning, networks, and market and mechanism design. He is a recipient of the 2018 MSOM Young Scholar Prize, the 2021 INFORMS TIMES Award, and the 2014 and 2024 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize. He currently serves as an area editor for Operations Research and as an associate editor for Management Science.

Professor Lobel has taught classes on decision modeling and analytics in a variety of different programs at Stern, including the BS, MBA, EMBA, MSBA, and MSQM programs. His teaching has been recognized by the 2017 Poets & Quants Top 40 MBA Professors Under 40 list and by the 2018 Stern Distinguished Teaching Award.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT in 2009. Before joining NYU Stern, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Microsoft Research New England Lab.

Research Interests

• Pricing and Revenue Management
• Online Markets
• Social Networks

Courses Taught

• Decision Models & Analytics

Academic Background

Ph.D., Operations Research, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, 2004
Pontificia Universidade Catolica of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Selected Publications

O. Besbes and I. Lobel (2015)
Intertemporal Price Discrimination: Structure and Computation of Optimal Policies
Management Science, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 92-110, 2015

S. Kakade, I. Lobel and H. Nazerzadeh (2013)
Optimal Dynamic Mechanism Design and the Virtual Pivot Mechanism
Operations Research, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 837-854

D. Acemoglu, M. Dahleh, I. Lobel and A. Ozdaglar (2011)
Bayesian Learning in Social Networks
Review of Economic Studies, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 1201-1236