Dr Ali Aouad's research revolves around the design and analysis of algorithms, with applications to operations management. He is broadly interested in choice modelling, revenue management and matching platforms. His work ranges from analyzing the fundamental properties of algorithms to driving their implementation in the practice.

He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MS and BS in Applied Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). He has research articles published in Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research and Mathematical Programming. Dr Aouad was awarded the Best Student Paper Prize by the Operations Research Center at MIT in 2015, and was a finalist in the INFORMS Nicholson Prize competition in 2016.

Alongside academia, Dr Aouad has worked and consulted for various technology firms. Before joining LBS, he spent a year at Uber’s Marketplace Data Science (San Francisco), where he contributed to the design and implementation of new algorithms that improved the efficiency of the matching platform.