OM in Niche Markets

• 9. Peer Review Market Design: Effort-Based Matching and Admission Control

  with James Siderius and Raghav Singal
  Working paper, 2025
  

• 8. Handicapping Strategies for Maximizing Engagement in Amateur Darts Tournaments

  with Timothy Chan and Rachael Walker
  Working paper, 2025
      First Place, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (Oral) 2024 [video]
      Finalist, CORS Student Paper Competition (UG Category) 2023 [Awarded to Rachael]
  

• 7. Income pools for Superstar Markets

  with Timothy Chan and Ningyuan Chen
  Management Science, 2024 (Forthcoming)
  

• 6. Points gained in football: Using Markov process-based value functions to assess team performance

  with Timothy Chan and Martin Puterman
  Operations Research, 2021
     Media Coverage: INFORMS Analytics Magazine
  

Analytics Education

• 5. Moneyball for Murderball: Using analytics to construct lineups in wheelchair rugby

  with Timothy Chan, Albert Loa and Nathan Sandholtz
  INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2023
       First Place, INFORMS Case Competition 2022
      Media Coverage: ORMS Today
  

• 4. Advising student-driven analytics projects: A summary of experiences and lessons learned

  with Aaron Babier and Ian Zhu
  INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2023
      Media Coverage: ORMS Today
  

Sports Analytics

• 3. Equity, diversity, and inclusion in sports analytics

  with Timothy Chan et al.
  Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2023
  

• 2. A Markov approach to untangling intention versus execution in tennis

  with Timothy Chan, Doug Fearing and Stephanie Kovalchik
  Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2022
      Finalist, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (Poster) 2022
  

• 1. Predicting plays in the National Football League

  with Timothy Chan et al.
  Journal of Sports Analytics, 2020
  

• Course Instructor
  MIE368: Analytics in Action Fall 2023

• Teaching Assistant
  MIE263: Stochastic Operations Research Winter 2023, 2024, 2025

  MIE368: Analytics in Action Fall 2020, 2021, 2022

  MIE Individual Teaching Assistant Award (2022)

  MIE Group Teaching Assistant Award (2020)

• INFORMS Annual Meeting 2022, 2023, 2024

• MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2022, 2024

• INFORMS RMP 2023

• INFORMS MSOM 2023

• CORS Annual Meeting 2018, 2021, 2022

• New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports 2017, 2021, 2023

• Paul Cadario Fellowship in Global Engineering ($8,900) 2025

• NSERC CGS MSFSS ($6,000) 2024

• Mitacs Globalink Research Award ($6,000) 2024

• TD MDAL Research Grant ($4,000) 2023

• NSERC Vanier CGS ($150,000) 2023 - 2025

• NSERC CGS D ($105,000) [Declined] 2023 - 2025

• Wallberg Research Fellowship ($7,500) 2022

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000) 2021

• NSERC CGS M ($17,500) 2020