Operations Research2023
Scheduling Advertising on Cable Television
First prize, INFORMS RM&P 2022With S. Seshadri and S. Subramanian. 71(6), 2217–2231.
https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.2430Sebastián Souyris
Sebastián Souyris
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Analytics
Lally School of Management,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
My research addresses challenges and the means of achieving environmental and human sustainability, combining data-driven optimization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. I have developed analytic solutions for sustainability, energy, healthcare, logistics, media, and sports, with work published in Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, the European Journal of Operational Research, and the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics.
I am an INFORMS Franz Edelman Laureate, a finalist of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award and of the INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award, and a prizewinner of the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award.
Selected publications
Production and Operations Management2023
Informational value of visual nudges during crises: Improving public health outcomes through social media engagement amid COVID-19
With A. Ivanov, Z. Tacheva, A. Alzaidan and A. C. England. 32, 2400–2419.
https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13982INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics2017
Operations Research Transforms the Scheduling of Chilean Soccer Leagues and South American World Cup Qualifiers
Edelman finalist 2016With F. Alarcón, G. Durán, M. Guajardo and others. 47, 52–69.
https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2016.0861European Journal of Operational Research2014
Branch-and-Price and Constraint Programming for Solving a Real-Life Technician Dispatching Problem
With C. E. Cortés, M. Gendreau, L. M. Rousseau and A. Weintraub. 238(1), 300–312.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.03.006Current research and working papers
2026FCAT · PI
Closing the retirement-savings gap
Behavioural heterogeneity meets conversational AI: a personalized agent for retirement-savings decisions. Fidelity Center for Applied Technology University Research Award.
2025CRAFT · PI
Drivers of volatility in energy commodity markets
Identifying what moves volatility in energy commodities, with the Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies at Stevens and RPI.
Major revisionM&SOM
Accelerating residential solar adoption
A dynamic structural model of the household adoption decision, used to compare rebate designs. A rebate offered for a limited period generates more adoption than a prolonged, costlier one.