Omar Besbes Faculty Profile

Omar Besbes
Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management

PhD, Columbia University, 2008; MSc, Stanford University, 2000; Ing., École Polytechnique, France, 1999

Research Areas
Dynamic pricing & revenue management; data-driven decision-making; performance analysis and control of stochastic systems

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2007-present

Other Positions
Project Management, Siemens Transportation Systems, 2000-2003

Representative Publications
(with A. Zeevi)
"Dynamic Pricing without knowing the demand function: Risk bounds and near optimal algorithms." To appear in Operations Research

(with C. Maglaras)
"Revenue optimization for a make-to-order queue in an uncertain market environment." To appear in Operations Research

(with A. Zeevi)
"On the Minimax Complexity of Pricing in a Changing Environment." (submitted for publication)

(with A. Zeevi)
"Testing the Validity of a Demand Model: An Operations Perspective." (submitted for publication)

(with S. Savin)
"Going Bunkers: Joint Route Selection and Refueling Problem." (submitted for publication)