My research interests are primarily in mathematical programming, nonlinear dynamic optimization, robust optimization, fluid models, game theory and equilibria, and control problems. I am interested in mathematically modeling decision-making problems that arise not only in revenue management and pricing, but also in health care and medical applications such as influenza pandemic response planning or in other areas where mathematical anlysis and optimization can have a significant impact.
Efficiency and Coordination in a Supply Chain with Competing Manufacturers and Retailers (with V. DeMiguel), 2009. Submitted for publication.
Teaching:
Fall 2009: Instructor, IE 576 Nonlinear Optimization at UIC.
Course for graduate students. Convex analysis, line search techniques, unconstrained
and constrained optimization, optimality conditions, duality, convex and nonconvex optimization, large-scale optimization, and real-world applications.
Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009: Instructor, IE 201 Financial Engineering at UIC.
Course for undergraduate students. Principles and techniques of economic analysis in engineering and management science. Basic probability theory and
decision problems under risk and uncertainty. The current syllabus can be found here.
Fall 2008: Instructor, IE 471 Operations Research I at UIC.
Course for undergraduate and Masters students. Introduction to operations research, formulation of linear programming problems, simplex methods, duality theory,
sensitivity analysis, network models, and integer linear programming. The current syllabus can be found here.
Fall 2006, Spring 2007: Instructor, IE 342 Probability and Statistics for Engineers at UIC.
Introductory course for undergraduate students with Engineering majors. Probability, random variables, mathematical expectation, discrete and continuous
distributions, estimation theory, test of hypothesis, and introduction to standard experimental designs. The current syllabus can be found
here.
Fall 2004: Teaching Assistant,
15.060 Data, Models, and Decisions at MIT Sloan School of Management, section taught by Robert Freund.
Core curriculum course on the fundamental techniques of using data to make informed management decisions for first year MBA students, including the basics
of decision analysis, probability, statistics, regression, and optimization. Some of the teaching is done via case studies.
Seminar Presentations:
Game Theoretical Models Applied to Supply Chain Management and Healthcare Management. University
of California at Irvine, The Paul Merage School of Business Seminar,
April 2009, Irvine, CA.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control: Robust vs. Stochastic Uncertainty Models. University
of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Operations Management/Management Science Workshop,
November 2007, Chicago, IL.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control: Robust vs. Stochastic Uncertainty Models. Purdue University,
Biomedical Engineering Seminar, September 2007, West Lafayette, IN.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control: Robust vs. Stochastic Uncertainty Models.
Northwestern University, Kellogg/McCormick Joint Operations Seminar Series, April 2007, Chicago, IL.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorders; Uncertainty and Competition. University of Illinois at Chicago, February 2006,
Chicago IL.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorders; Uncertainty and Competition. Olin School of Business, Washington University in
St Louis, February 2006, St Louis MO.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorders; Uncertainty and Competition. University of Texas at Dallas School of Management,
January 2006, Dallas TX.
A Robust Nonlinear Fluid Model of Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorder. IBM Research T.J. Watson Labs, July 2004,
Hawthorne NY.
Conference Presentations:
Efficiency and Coordination in a Supply Chain with Competing Manufacturers and Retailers.
20th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, August 2009, Chicago, IL.
Hospital Stockpiling for Influenza Pandemics with Pre-Determined Response Levels. IEEE International Conference on Service Operations, Logistics and Informatics (SOLI), July 2009, Chicago,IL.
Efficiency and Coordination in a Supply Chain with Competing Manufacturers and Retailers.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Annual Conference, June 2009, Cambridge, MA.
Efficiency and Coordination in a Supply Chain with Competing Manufacturers and Retailers. Optimization Applications in Engineering
& Applied Sciences (OptimA) Conference (Session Chair), March 2009, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
The Strategic Role of Capacity in a Joint Inventory Management and Pricing Game. INFORMS
Annual Meeting (Session Chair), October 2008, Washington, DC.
A Game Theoretical Approach for Hospital Stockpile in Preparation for Pandemics (presented by co-author). INFORMS
Annual Meeting, October 2008, Washington, DC.
A Game Theoretical Approach for Hospital Stockpile in Preparation for Pandemics (presented by co-author). IIE Annual Conference, May 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
A Game Theoretical Approach for Hospital Stockpile in Preparation for Pandemics (presented by co-author). Poster presented at Healthcare Engineering Symposium on
the Interface of Health Services Research and Healthcare Engineering, April 2008, Research Triangle Park, NC.
The Strategic Role of Capacity in a Joint Inventory Management and Pricing Game. INFORMS
Annual Meeting (Session Chair), November 2007, Seattle, WA.
A Game Theoretical Approach for Hospital Stockpile in Preparation for Pandemics (presented by co-author). INFORMS
Annual Meeting, November 2007, Seattle, WA.
The Strategic Role of Capacity in a Joint Inventory Management and Pricing Game. INFORMS Midwest Regional Conference, August 2007,
Evanston, IL.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control under Uncertainty. Second International Conference on
Continuous Optimization / Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (Session Chair),
August 2007, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control under Uncertainty. 22nd European Conference on Operational Research, EURO XXII (Session Chair),
July 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
The Strategic Role of Capacity in a Joint Inventory Management and Pricing Game. Sixth
Annual INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference, June 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control under Uncertainty. INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control; Uncertainty and Competition through Robust Optimization and Quasi Variational Inequalities. 19th
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, August 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control under Uncertainty. Fifth Annual INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference, June 2006,
New York NY.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorders; Uncertainty and Competition. INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2005, San Francisco
CA.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorders; Uncertainty and Competition. IFORS Triennial, July 2005, Honolulu HI.
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorders; Uncertainty and Competition. Fourth Annual INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing
Section Conference, June 2005, Cambridge MA.
A Robust Nonlinear Fluid Model of Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorder. INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2004, Denver CO.
A Robust Nonlinear Fluid Model of Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with no Backorder. Third Annual INFORMS Revenue Management and
Pricing Section Conference, June 2004, Cambridge MA.
A Nonlinear Fluid Model for Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control. INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2003, Atlanta GA.
Elodie Adida (Goodman) Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (M/C 251)
University of Illinois at Chicago
3025 Engineering Research Facility
842 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Phone: (312) 996-8777
Email: elodie@uic.edu
Web page last updated on July 3rd, 2009.
