Regular biography
Yuri Resende Fonseca is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Operations and Technology Group at the UCL School of Management. His research focuses on online optimization, statistical learning, and decision-making in digital platforms and marketplaces, with work published in leading journals and presented at top conferences, including Operations Research, NeurIPS, COLT, and ACM EC. He earned his PhD in Decision, Risk & Operations at Columbia University under the mentorship of Omar Besbes, Ilan Lobel, and Fanyin Zheng. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University, collaborating with Daniela Saban and Vahideh Manshadi of Yale University.
Scholar-generated biography
Yuri Resende Fonseca is an Assistant Professor at UCL School of Management, specializing in online optimization, statistical learning, and revenue management. His research focuses on developing advanced methodologies for online learning, inverse optimization, and causal inference. He has contributed to the fields of statistical learning through nonparametric instrumental variable regression and stochastic gradient approaches. His work also includes the development of tools such as Arco and C-learner for counterfactual estimation and causal inference. Additionally, he explores the application of machine learning in digital platforms and revenue management, emphasizing the integration of statistical learning with practical business applications.