Assistant Professor of Business Analytics
Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Fulton Hall 350C
140 Commonwealth Ave
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
dizdarer@bc.edu

About

I am an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. My research investigates how emerging technologies and regulatory frameworks influence the design and implementation of gig economy policies and practices. Through my research, I aim to advance our understanding of how to give gig workers more security while retaining the economic viability of contractor-based business models.

I received my Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where I was advised by Gérard Cachon and Gerry Tsoukalas.

Research

Pricing Control and Regulation on Online Service Platforms (with Gérard P. Cachon, Gerry Tsoukalas), under review at Management Science [Paper]

Multi-homing Across Platforms: Friend or Foe (with Gérard P. Cachon, Gerry Tsoukalas), working paper

Deblurring Text Images Using Kernel Dictionaries (with Mustafa Ç. Pınar), Ninth International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications 2019, IEEE Xplore [Paper]

Conference Presentations

Pricing Control and Regulation on Online Service Platforms (Previous title: Decentralized or Centralized Control of Online Service Platforms: Who Should Set Prices?)

  • Informs Annual Meeting, 2020&2021&2022

  • Supply Chain Finance & Risk Management Workshop, 2022

  • POMS Annual Conference, 2021&2022

  • ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2021

  • M&SOM Annual Conference, 2021

  • Market Innovation Workshop, 2021

Multi-homing Across Platforms: Friend or Foe?

  • Platform Strategy Research Symposium, 2023

  • Informs Annual Meeting, 2022

  • M&SOM Annual Conference, 2022

Optimization for a Semi-Automated Warehouse

  • European Conference on Operational Research, 2016

Teaching

PhD Program Teaching

  • Wharton Math Camp, The Wharton School (2020-2022)

MBA Program Teaching Assistant

  • OIDD 612, Business Analytics, The Wharton School (2020-2021)

Undergraduate Program Teaching Assistant

  • IE324, Simulation, Bilkent University (2018)

  • IE303, Modelling and Methods in Optimization, Bilkent University (2017)

  • IE202, Introduction to Modeling and Optimization, Bilkent University (2017)

Grants and Awards

  • The Marjorie Weiler Prize for Excellence in Writing, The Wharton School

  • Mack Institute Ph.D. Fellowship, The Wharton School

  • Blockchain Research Initiative Fund, Ripple Foundation

  • Wharton Doctoral Fellowship, The Wharton School

  • University-Industry Collaboration Grant Program, TUBITAK

  • Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award, Bilkent University

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