Biography

Santiago Balseiro is an Associate Professor in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He teaches the core MBA class Business Analytics and the core Ph.D. class Foundations of Optimization.

His primary research interests are in the area of dynamic optimization, stochastic systems and game theory with applications in revenue management and internet advertising. His recent work studies the design and operation of display advertising exchanges. His research has been recognized by the 2014 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, an honorable mention in the 2017 Junior Faculty Interest Group Best Paper Award, an honorable mention in the 2014 George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, the 2015 Google Faculty Research Award, the 2012 Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications Institute Summer Grant, the 2011 Deming Doctoral Fellowship, and the 2010 Google Engineering Scholarship.

Professor Balseiro is a graduate of University of Buenos Aires and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business in 2013. Before joining Columbia, he was on the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.