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Ali Makhdoumi

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
100 Fuqua Drive, Durham, NC 27708
100 Fuqua Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Ali Makhdoumi is an Associate Professor in the Decision Sciences area. His research interest are focused on optimization, game theory, networks, and learning theory with applications to social and technological systems. Ali Makhdoumi has been published in Journals such as Games and Economics Behaviors, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and IEEE Transactions in Information Theory. Professor Makhdoumi teaches Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Business Administration · 2022 - Present Fuqua School of Business
Associate Professor of Computer Science · 2024 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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Published December 4, 2023
How Companies Should Pay Users for Their Data

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Recent Publications


Optimal and Differentially Private Data Acquisition: Central and Local Mechanisms

Journal Article Operations Research · May 1, 2024 We consider a platform’s problem of collecting data from privacy sensitive users to estimate an underlying parameter of interest. We formulate this question as a Bayesian-optimal mechanism design problem, in which an individual can share their (verifiable) ... Full text Cite

Testing, Voluntary Social Distancing, and the Spread of an Infection

Journal Article Operations Research · March 1, 2024 We study the effects of testing policy on voluntary social distancing and the spread of an infection. Agents decide their social activity level, which determines a social network over which the virus spreads. Testing enables the isolation of infected indiv ... Full text Cite

Optimal Subscription Planning for Digital Goods

Journal Article Operations Research · November 1, 2023 We consider a media service provider that gives users access to digital goods through subscription. In our model, different types of users with heterogeneous usage rates repeatedly use a platform over a period of time. There are multiple item types on the ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2018 Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2013 M.S.
Sharif University of Technology (Iran) · 2011 B.S.