Faculty Directory | Ilan Lobel

Ilan Lobel is the Fauvelais Family Professor of Data-Driven Operations and a Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics at New York University's Stern School of Business. Professor Lobel is also the Academic Director of the Andre Koo Technology and Entrepreneurship MBA Program.

He is interested in questions related to pricing, learning, networks, and market and mechanism design. He is a recipient of the 2018 MSOM Young Scholar Prize, the 2021 INFORMS TIMES Award, and the 2014 and 2024 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize. He currently serves as an area editor for Operations Research and as an associate editor for Management Science.

Professor Lobel has taught classes on decision modeling and analytics in a variety of different programs at Stern, including the BS, MBA, EMBA, MSBA, and MSQM programs. His teaching has been recognized by the 2017 Poets & Quants Top 40 MBA Professors Under 40 list and by the 2018 Stern Distinguished Teaching Award.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT in 2009. Before joining NYU Stern, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Microsoft Research New England Lab.