I am an Assistant Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management at the Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business.
Using optimization, data science, and mathematical modeling, my research studies the design of platforms and policy interventions for tackling societal challenges, with the goal of enhancing the social impact of nonprofit and public-sector organizations and providing broader insights for policymakers. My work thus far has spanned refugee resettlement, online food rescue platforms, and diversity policies in labor markets, often in close collaboration with mission-driven organizations such as Feeding America’s MealConnect and a major U.S. refugee resettlement agency. My research has been recognized by several awards, including the MSOM Best Student Paper Prize, the Auctions and Market Design Rothkopf Prize, the George Nicholson Student Paper Prize (honorable mention), and the Service Science Best Student Paper Award (finalist).
I hold a Ph.D. in Operations from Yale School of Management, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Vahideh Manshadi. Prior to Yale, I earned a B.B.A. and a B.S. in Applied Statistics, followed by an M.S. in Management Science from Yonsei University.
You can find my CV here.
Email: sl3883 ‘at’ cornell ‘dot’ edu
Papers
- Dynamic Matching with Post-Allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement, with Kirk Bansak, Vahideh Manshadi, Rad Niazadeh, and Elisabeth Paulson, Management Science, Accepted, 2025.
- Honorable Mention, George Nicholson Best Student Paper Competition, 2025
- Finalist, Service Science Best Student Paper Award, 2025
- Winner, MSOM Best Student Paper Competition, 2024
- Winner, Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize (awarded by INFORMS Auctions and Market Design Section), 2024
- Accepted to The NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, 2024
- Conference version accepted to The 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2024
- Oral presentation at The fourth ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), 2024
- Media: “Using Operations Research to Improve the Refugee Resettlement Process.” Yale Insights
- Why the Rooney Rule Fumbles: Limitations of Interview-stage Diversity Interventions in Labor Markets, with Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Vahideh Manshadi, and Faidra Monachou, Major Revision at Operations Research, 2025.
- Selected for MSOM Sustainable Operations SIG Day, 2026
- Conference version accepted to The 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2025
- Conference version accepted at The 5th ACM Conference on Equity & Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, & Optimization (EAAMO), 2025
Who to Offer, and When: Redesigning Feeding America’s Real-Time Donation Tool, with Vahideh Manshadi and Daniela Saban, Working Paper, 2025.
Portfolio Evaluation with the Vector Distance Based on Portfolio Composition, with Heonbae Jeon, Hongseon Kim, Seung Bum Soh, and Seongmoon Kim, Mathematics, 2023.
- Improving Portfolio Investment Performance with Distance-Based Portfolio Combining Algorithms, with Hongseon Kim, Seungbum Soh, and Seongmoon Kim, Journal of Financial Research, 2022.