Negin Golrezaei

Timeline

1. 2007–2009

   Electrical engineering at Sharif

   She earns a BSc in electrical engineering in 2007 and an MSc in 2009 at Sharif University of Technology in Iran.

2. 2014–2017

   Assortment paper and USC PhD

   In 2014, she coauthors “Real-time Optimization of Personalized Assortments,” a Management Science paper. She completes a PhD in Operations Research at USC in 2017 and receives the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award. At USC Marshall, she works in the Data Sciences and Operations department under faculty advisor Hamid Nazerzadeh.

3. 2018

   Google Research and an MIT role

   In March 2018, she wins the Google Faculty Research Award in Algorithms and Optimization for a project titled “Pricing and Bidding in Supply Chain of Auctions.” After a postdoctoral year at Google Research in New York with the Market Algorithms team, she is expected to join MIT Sloan as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2018; by August 2018, she holds the title of Assistant Professor of Operations Management.

4. February 2020

   Robust pricing in contextual auctions

   In February 2020, she coauthors “Dynamic Incentive-aware Learning: Robust Pricing in Contextual Auctions” with Adel Javanmard and Vahab Mirrokni. The paper proposes Contextual Robust Pricing, a policy for learning reserve prices in repeated contextual second-price auctions while accounting for strategic buyers.

5. 2021

   An ONR Young Investigator Award

   In 2021, she receives the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award for a project titled “Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Utilizing Structures and Predictive Information in Online Optimization.” The project develops fast-learning methods for uncertain, time-varying combinatorial settings.

6. 2024

   Fairness in online optimization

   In 2024, she coauthors “Online Combinatorial Optimization with Group Fairness Constraints” with Rad Niazadeh, Kumar Kshitij Patel, and Fransisca Susan. The paper proposes a robust framework for adding group-fairness constraints to online combinatorial optimization, including product rankings, and wins a Distinguished Paper Award at IJCAI 2024.

7. 2025

   Product rankings with fake users

   In 2025, “Learning Product Rankings Robust to Fake Users,” coauthored with Vahideh Manshadi, Jon Schneider, and Shreyas Sekar, wins the Best Operations Management Paper in Operations Research Award from the INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society. The paper studies how fake users such as click farms can manipulate product rankings on digital platforms.

8. 2026

   Market design for generative AI

   In 2026, she coauthors the working paper “Market Design for Generative AI: Beyond the Copyright Binary,” accepted for presentation at the M&SOM Service Operations SIG.

9. As of October 2026

   AgentGora and AgoraX

   As of October 2026, she is Founder and President of AgentGora, whose merchant-side tools make product and offer decisions using shopper intent, merchant policy, and live commerce signals. She also serves on the advisory board of AgoraX.

10. As of October 2026

    Associate professor at MIT Sloan

    As of October 2026, she is the Theresa Seley Associate Professor in Management Science and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at MIT Sloan. She serves as Department Editor for Revenue Management and Marketplace Design at Naval Research Logistics and Associate Editor for Operations Research and Mathematics of Operations Research.