CV

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Name Ignacio Rios
Professional Title Assistant Professor
Email ignacio.riosuribe@utdallas.edu
Location 800 W Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080

Professional Summary

Assistant Professor at UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management. Research interests include operations research, matching markets, school choice, college admissions, and behavioral operations.

Academic Appointments

Education

  • 2015 - 2020

    Stanford, CA

    PhD
    Stanford University
    Operations, Information and Technology
  • 2015 - 2020

    Stanford, CA

    Master
    Stanford University
    Economics
  • 2013 - 2014

    Santiago, Chile

    Master
    University of Chile
    Operations Management
  • 2011 - 2013

    Santiago, Chile

    Industrial Engineering
    University of Chile
    Industrial Engineering
  • 2007 - 2011

    Santiago, Chile

    BS
    University of Chile
    Industrial Engineering

Research

  2. 2026
    Capacity Planning in Stable Matching: An Application to School Choice
    Bobbio, Federico and Carvalho, Margarida and Lodi, Andrea and Torrico, Alfredo and Rios, Ignacio
    Operations Research
    forthcoming
    Second Place, CORS Student Paper Competition, 2023
  4. 2026
    Behavioral Externalities of Process Automation in Sequential Tasks
    Beer, Ruth and Qi, Anyan and Rios, Ignacio
    Management Science
    forthcoming
  6. 2024
    Competition in Sequential Search
    Ghosh, Pramit and Rios, Ignacio
    Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(6), 2256–2273
    First Place, Best Working Paper - Behavioral Operations, 2023
  8. 2023
    Improving Match Rates in Dating Markets through Assortment Optimization
    Saban, Daniela and Zheng, Fanyin and Rios, Ignacio
    Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25(4), 1304–1323
    Second Place, M&SOM Practice Based Competition, 2021
  10. 2022
    School Choice in Chile
    Correa, José and Epstein, Natalie and Espstein, Rafael and Escobar, Juan and Bahamondes, Beatrice and Bonet, Carlos and Aramayo, Natalie and Castillo, Martín and Cristi, Andrés and Epstein, Boris and Subiabre, Francisco and Rios, Ignacio
    Operations Research, 70(2), 1066–1087
    Finalist, Euro Excellence in Operations Award, 2019
    Finalist, IFORS Prize for OR in Development, 2020
  12. 2021
    Improving the Chilean College Admissions System
    Larroucau, Tomás and Parra, Giorgio and Cominetti, Roberto and Rios, Ignacio
    Operations Research, 69(4), 1015–1348
    First Place, Doing Good with Good OR, 2018
  14. 2021
    Increased Transparency in Procurement: the Role of Peer-Effects
    Beer, Ruth and Saban, Daniela and Rios, Ignacio
    Management Science, 67(12), 7291–7950
    Second Place, Best Working Paper - Behavioral Operations, 2018
  16. 2016
    Building a stochastic programming model from scratch: A harvesting management example
    Weintraub, Andrés and Wets, Roger J-B and Rios, Ignacio
    Quantitative Finance, 16(2), 189–199
  18. 2015
    Multi-period forecasting and scenario generation with limited data
    Wets, Roger J-B and Woodruff, David and Rios, Ignacio
    Computational Management Science, 12(2), 267–295
  20. 2015
    Modeling and estimating commodity prices
    Wets, Roger J-B and Rios, Ignacio
    Mathematics and Financial Economics, 9(4), 247–270
  22. 2015
    Toward Scalable Stochastic Unit Commitment - Part 1: Load Scenario Generation
    Feng, Yonghan and Ryan, Sarah and Spürkel, Karsten and Watson, Jean-Paul and Wets, Roger J and Woodruff, David and Rios, Ignacio
    Energy Systems, 6(3), 309–329
  24. 2015
    Effect of Including High-School Grades in the Admission Process to Chilean Universities
    Mizala, Alejandra and Larroucau, Tomás and Rios, Ignacio
    Pensamiento Educativo, 52(1), 95–118
  26. 2013
    Stochastic Unit Commitment at ISO Scale
    Cheung, Kevin and Feng, Yonghan and Gade, Dinakar and Lee, Yongjia and Monroy, Carlos and Rüdel, Florian and Watson, Jean-Paul and Wets, Roger J and Woodruff, David and Rios, Ignacio
    Proceedings of the IEEE Power & Energy Society
  2. 2024
    Platform Design in Curated Dating Markets
    Torrico, Alfredo and Rios, Ignacio
    Conditionally Accepted at M&SOM
  4. 2024
    College Application Mistakes and the Design of Information Policies at Scale
    Larroucau, Tomás and Fabre, Anais and Nielson, Christopher and Rios, Ignacio
    Minor Revision at Journal of Political Economy
  6. 2024
    Designing Effective Fundraising Campaigns
    Ghosh, Pramit and Qi, Anyan and Rios, Ignacio
    Major revision at M&SOM
  8. 2024
    Stable Matching with Contingent Priorities
    Bobbio, Federico and Carvalho, Margarida and Torrico, Alfredo and Rios, Ignacio
    Reject & Resubmit at Management Science (resubmitted)
  10. 2024
    Dynamic College Admissions
    Larroucau, Tomás and Rios, Ignacio
    Reject & Resubmit at Econometrica (resubmitted)
  12. 2024
    Team Building and Incentive Schemes in Collaborative Projects
    Beer, Ruth and Qi, Anyan and Rios, Ignacio
    Reject & Resubmit at M&SOM
  2. 2025
    Strategic Behavior in the Chilean College Admissions Problem
    Larroucau, Tomás and Campos, Cristian and Lee, Richard and Rios, Ignacio
  4. 2025
    Designing Effective Fundraising Campaigns: Behavioral Insights
    Ghosh, Pramit and Qi, Anyan and Rios, Ignacio
  6. 2025
    Incentive Design for Long-Term Retention of New Gig Workers
    Epstein, Natalie and Rios, Ignacio
  2. 2026
    Platform Complexities and their Implications for Application Mistakes
    Larroucau, Tomás and Martinez, Marcelo and Nielson, Christopher and Rios, Ignacio
  4. 2026
    Optimal Design of Search Platforms: Behavioral Insights
    Rios, Ignacio
  6. 2026
    Counterfactual Explanations for Resource Allocation Problems
    Chua, Jonathan and Zhu, Iris and Rios, Ignacio
  8. 2026
    Market Design for Residential Dark Warehousing
    Frazelle, Andrew and Ghosal, Shayak and Rios, Ignacio
  10. 2026
    Designing Fair Admissions Policies under Exam Retaking
    Sharma, Rahul and Rios, Ignacio
  12. 2026
    Designing Admission Requirements: Balancing Access, Competition, and Student Outcomes
    Marar, Abhijit and Rios, Ignacio

Teaching

2020-2022, 2025
Operations Management
University of Texas at Dallas
Undergraduate
2022-2025
Spreadsheet Modeling
University of Texas at Dallas
Graduate
2016-2018
Optimization, Simulation and Modelling (Teaching Assistant)
Stanford University
MBA Core
2018
Online Marketplaces (Teaching Assistant)
Stanford University
MBA Elective
2012
Optimization (Teaching Assistant)
Universidad de Chile
Undergraduate
2011
Economics I (Teaching Assistant)
Universidad de Chile
Undergraduate
2011-2012
Stochastic Processes (Teaching Assistant)
Universidad de Chile
Undergraduate
2012
Operations Management I (Teaching Assistant)
Universidad de Chile
Undergraduate

Doctoral Advisement

  • 2023 - Present
    Pramit Ghosh
    PhD Student (Primary Advisor)
    UTD
  • 2025 - Present
    Abhijit Marar
    PhD Student (Primary Advisor)
    UTD
  • 2025 - Present
    Shayak Ghosal
    PhD Student (Co-Advisor)
    UTD
  • 2025 - Present
    Rahul Sharma
    PhD Student (Primary Advisor)
    UTD
  • 2025 - Present
    Shenghui Zhai
    PhD Student (Primary Advisor)
    UTD

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    Management Science Meritorious Service Award
  • 2025
    Naveen Jindal School of Management Outstanding Graduate Teacher of the Year
  • 2025
    40 Under 40, Best Business School Professors, Poets & Quants
  • 2025
    Nominee, President's Teaching Excellence Award in Graduate/Professional Instruction
  • 2024
    Winner, Owlie Best Graduate Teaching Award
  • 2023
    First Place, BOM Best Working Paper Competition
  • 2023
    Second Place (Hon. Mention), CORS Student Paper Competition
  • 2021
    Second Place (runner-up), IFORS Prize for OR in Development
  • 2021
    Second Place (Hon. Mention), M&SOM Practice Based Competition
  • 2021
    Finalist, Owlie Best Undergraduate Teaching Award
  • 2019
    Finalist, Excellence in Practice Award, EURO
  • 2018
    First Place, Doing Good with Good OR Competition
  • 2018
    Second Place, BOM Best Working Paper Competition
  • 2018
    Community Impact Award, Stanford University
  • 2015
    Jaedicke Award, Stanford GSB
  • 2013
    Best Teaching Assistant, University of Chile
  • 2011
    Community Award, University of Chile
  • 2007
    Outstanding Student Award, University of Chile

Fellowships and Grants

Presentations

Service and Organizations

Skills

Programming: Python, Julia
Data Analysis: Stata, R, SQL
Writing Tools: LaTeX, Office

Languages

Spanish : Native speaker
English : Fluent
French : Conversational

Patents