Will Ma
Assistant Professor
Decision, Risk, and Operations
BS, University of Waterloo, 2010; PhD, MIT, 2018
Joined CBS in 2019
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Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Will Ma is an Assistant Professor of Decision, Risk, and Operations at Columbia Business School. During 2018-2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Google. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 from the MIT Operations Research Center, advised by David Simchi-Levi. His research is primarily focused on Revenue Management, building data-driven models to help e-tailers coordinate their product recommendation decisions with their supply chain constraints.
Previously, Will has been a co-founder of Lunarch Studios, the start-up that launched the strategy game Prismata. He is also a former professional poker player, and designed the poker class which is taught yearly at MIT.