Message from the Section Chair
Dear RMP Section Members,
It is a privilege to step into the role of Section Chair for 2026. The RMP Section has been a cornerstone of my professional journey, and I am eager to give back to a community that has provided me with so much support over the years.
We find ourselves at an exciting juncture where Revenue Management and Pricing is driving substantial value in both academic literature and industrial application. This momentum is a direct result of our members' dedication. I am deeply grateful to our immediate past chair, Huseyin Topaloglu, for his exceptional stewardship; he hands over a section that is in excellent health. I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to our departing officers—Vivek Farias (past chair), Kris Ferreira (board member), and Ali Aouad (treasurer/secretary)—for their committed service. Simultaneously, I am thrilled to welcome our incoming team: Zizhuo Wang as Chair-Elect, Zhe Liu as Treasurer/Secretary, and Wil Ma as our newest Board Member. We are also fortunate to retain the talents of George Chen (newsletter), Sophia Huang (social media), and Sami Najafi (webmaster), whose behind-the-scenes work keeps us connected.
In this newsletter, Huseyin provides a recap of the Section's current state. You will also find details on active initiatives and, importantly, a call for proposals to host the RMP Annual Conference.
I hope to maintain an open line of communication with you all. Please do not hesitate to contact me with suggestions for new programs or general feedback. Finally, let’s continue to grow our network. Please encourage your PhD students and colleagues to officially join the RMP Section (instructions included below).
Best wishes,
Stef
Annual State of the Section Address
In 2025, the RMP section has remained strong in all fronts including membership, finance and activities. In what follows, I would like to provide a brief summary of the state of the RMP Section and introduce the new members of the board.
Membership:
As of October 2025, our membership reached 654 members.
In terms of demographics, our section has a composition that is similar to the overall composition of INFORMS with a predominantly male population. This is an area where we see an opportunity to grow and moving forward we need to keep working on expanding the diversity of our membership.
Finance:
Our finances remain healthy with a balance of $106,616.
Activities:
I) Conferences
- Annual RMP Conference: The annual 2025 section conference was successfully hosted by Columbia business school last July. The conference included 3 plenary sessions and 156 talks. I want to take this opportunity to thank the organizing committee of the RMP conference Santiago Balseiro and Will Ma for putting together a fantastic and stimulating conference.
Mark your calendars! The 2026 RMP conference will be hosted by Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (July 21-23, 2026)
The 2027 RMP conference will be held at University of Colorado Leeds School of Business.
- INFORMS Conference: The RMP Cluster at the 2025 INFORMS was organized by Junyu Cao (UT Austin), Yifan Feng (NUS), and Shreyas Sekar (Toronto). The cluster included 53 sessions and 235 talks. A big thank you goes to Junyu, Yifan and Shreyas for their effort in running a very successful cluster.
II) Competitions and Awards:
- 2025 RMP Practice Award
- Winners: Wei Sun, Shiva Subramanian, Youssef Drissi, Zack Xue, Markus Ettl (all IBM). Counterfactual Optimization Action Tree for Airline Ancillary Pricing.
- Runner-ups: Ali Aouad (MIT), Abhi Deshmane (Georgia Tech), Victor Martinez-de-Albeniz (IESE), Rianne van Dam (Van Gogh Museum). Museum Analytics: From Service Curation to Retail.
- Committee:
- Joline Uichanco (NYU) - Chair
- Santiago Balseiro (Columbia)
- Roger Lederman (Amazon)
- Vahideh Manshadi (Yale)
Left to right: Joline Uichanco (committee chair), Santiago Balseiro (committee member) Wei Sun (winner, IBM), Roger Lederman (committee member), Vahideh Manshadi (committee member)
Left to right: Joline Uichanco (committee chair), Santiago Balseiro (committee member) Wei Sun (winner, IBM), Roger Lederman (committee member), Vahideh Manshadi (committee member)
- 2025 RMP Section Award
- Winners: Maxime Cohen (McGill), Adam Elmachtoub (Columbia), Xiao Lei (Columbia), for their paper “Price Discrimination with Fairness Constraints”.
- The paper addresses a timely and relevant topic. Traditionally, pricing models have focused primarily on profit maximization without explicitly considering societal or ethical implications. This paper closes that gap by systematically incorporating into revenue management different measures of fairness—namely, price fairness, demand fairness, consumer surplus fairness, and no-purchase valuation fairness. First, the paper shows that achieving multiple fairness measures simultaneously is inherently impossible due to fundamental trade-offs. Second, it shows that a small amount of price fairness increases social welfare. In contrast, imposing demand or consumer surplus fairness is always detrimental to social welfare, whereas imposing no-purchase valuation fairness is always beneficial. These findings allow for a deeper understanding of how firms can align economic objectives with socially responsible practices. The paper has inspired many follow-up studies on fairness considerations in revenue management and pricing.
- Committee:
- Felipe Caro (UCLA) – Co-chair
- Ozge Sahin (JHU) – Co-chair
- Ningyuan Chen (Toronto)
- Mihalis Markakis (IESE)
- Joline Uichanco (NYU)
Left to right: Huseyin Topaloglu (section chair), Xiao Lei (winner, Columbia) and Adam Elmachtoub (winner, Columbia) and (on the iPad) Maxime Cohen (winner, McGill)
- Jeff McGill RMP Student Paper Prize
- First-place Winner:
- Sourav Sahoo (MIT). “Learning Safe Strategies for Value Maximizing Buyers in Uniform Price Auctions”, co-authored with Negin Golrezaei
- Second-place Winners:
- Eneko Ciro Clemente (Zurich). “Saving Kermit: Dynamic Assortment Planning in a Boiling Market” co-authored with Oleg Prokopyev and Denis Saure
- Sadegh Shirani (Stanford). “Validating Counterfactual Estimations Under General Network Interference” co-authored with Yuwei Luo, William Overman, Ruoxuan Xiong, and Mohsen Bayati
- Committee:
- Negin Golrezai (co-chair), MIT
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Victor Martinez de Albeniz (co-chair), IESE
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Can Küçükgül, Rutgers University
- Antoine Désir, INSEAD
- Bora Keskin, Duke
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Danny Segev, Tel-Aviv
- Gah-Yi Ban, Imperial
- Jinglong Zhao, Boston University
- Lennart Baardman, University of Michigan
- Mihalis Markakis, IESE
- Ozge Sahin, JHU
- Philip Zhang, CUHK
- Rad Niazadeh, Chicago
- Raghav Singal, Dartmouth
- Sebastien Martin, Northwestern
- Velibor Misic, UCLA
- Yao Cui, Cornell
- Yiangos Papanastasiou, Rice
- Yifan Feng, NUS
- Yini Gao, SMU
- Zhe Liu, Imperial
III) RMP Practice Webinar Series: (Connect practitioner with academics)
- Committee:
- Robert Phillips (Amazon)
- Vahab Mirrokni (Google)
- Nicolas Stier-Moses (Facebook)
- Tara Mardan (Amazon)
- Joe Cooprider (Amazon)
Board Members and Elections:
I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank to all the members of RMP section board 2024-2025:
- Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Stefanus Jasin (Michigan)
- Past Chair: Vivek Farias (MIT)
- Secretary/Treasurer: Ali Aouad (MIT/LBS)
- Board Members
- 2023-2025: Kris Ferreira (Harvard)
- 2024-2026: Antoine Desir (INSEAD)
- Collaborators
- Webmaster: Sami Najafi-Asadolahi (Santa Clara)
- Newsletter Editor: George Chen (LBS)
- Social Media Coordinator: Sophia Huang (Vistex)
We have the following newly elected board members:
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- Vice-chair/chair-elect: Zizhuo Wang (CUHK Shenzhen)
- Treasurer/Secretary: Zhe Liu (Imperial)
- Board Member: Will Ma (Columbia)
The continuing board members are Stefanus Jasin (Chair), Huseyin Topaloglu (past chair), and Antoine Desir (board member).
In closing, I want to thank all of you for having given me the opportunity to serve as chair of the RMP Section during 2025. It has been a great honor. I look forward to keep on serving the RMP Section another year as past chair and to a successful year under Stefanus’ leadership.
All the best for 2026!
Huseyin Topaloglu
Call for Proposal to host RMP Annual Conference
INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section invites proposals to host the Section's annual conference in 2028. The conference typically takes place in June or July and lasts for two days.
The RMP section annual conferences in 2026 and 2027 will be held at:
- RMP 2026, Date TBD at University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, MI
- Organizers: Izak Duenyas, Hyun Soo Ahn, Jun Li, Stefanus Jasin, Joline Uichanco, Mohamed Mostagir, and Lennart Baardman
- RMP 2027, Date TBD at University of Colorado Leeds School of Business, Boulder, CO
- Organizers: Övünç Yılmaz and Dan Zhang
The Section Chair manages the process of selecting the host in conjunction with the Section Board. The winning proposal will be decided by a majority vote of the Section Board under the rules governing the selection process. Please send your proposal to Stefanus Jasin (Chair, sjasin@umich.edu) by March 1st, 2026.
Practice Webinar Series
We launched the RMP practice webinar series in 2020 to better facilitate dialogues between academics and practitioners. We plan to run the webinar series as a regular event. So far, we have successfully hosted four webinars:
- The first webinar took place on October 7, 2020. Robert Phillips (Amazon) talked about “Pricing and Analytics - Challenges and Research Opportunities”.
- The second webinar took place on February 10, 2021. Vahab Mirrokni (Google) talked about “Recent Trends in Online Ad Markets: Robustness, Learning, and Automation”.
- The third webinar took place on May 12, 2021. Nicolas Stier-Moses (Facebook) talked about “Operations Management Research at Facebook”.
- The fourth webinar took place on April 7, 2022. Tara Mardan (Amazon) and Joe Cooprider (Amazon) talked about “Science of Pricing Experimentation at Amazon”.
The video recordings are available on INFORMS site at here. Please stay tuned for the upcoming seminars!
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Student Live Paper Series and Spotlight Paper Presentations
We launched the RMP student live paper series on YouTube to promote works by RMP Section’s student members. This RMP student live paper series is an ongoing effort, and we will keep adding new presentations to the list. We also showcase recordings of RMP Section Conference Spotlight Paper Presentations in section’s YouTube channel. You can access the recordings through our YouTube channel at here. If you are interested contributing to the live student paper series, please send an email to the section chair.
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RMP Section – How to Join
To become a member of the Revenue Management and Pricing Section, it is the easiest (but not necessary) just to add it to the regular INFORMS membership. Those who’d rather focus exclusively on the Section’s activities can become members only of the Section by calling 1-800-446-3676. More information can be found here.
Benefits of Membership
As a member of the Section, you will receive benefits such as our newsletter, registration fee discount to annual section conference, 50% off the subscription rate to the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, and listserver announcements. More information can be found here.
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