Hassaan Khalid
PhD Candidate
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About
5th year PhD candidate in Information and Decision Sciences specializing in optimization methods and transfer learning, with 5 years of industry experience in machine learning across diverse sectors. Seeking opportunities in data science, operations research, or quantitative research to leverage analytical skills, technical expertise, and practical insights to drive impactful solutions.
Selected Publications
Hassaan Khalid and Bradley Sturt, 2025,
Assortment Optimization and the Sample Average Approximation,
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00850, (also submitted to INFORMS Management Science)
Sid Mohasseb and Hassaan Khalid and Divya Sathyanarayanan, 2019,
Two Brothers, Two Methods: “Happiness Index” vs. “Data & Analytics”
Harvard Business School Publishing,
https://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/product/SCM102-PDF-ENG
Notable Honors
2016-2017, Fulbright Scholar, USEFP
Education
Bachelors in Business Administration, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (2014)
Masters in Business Analytics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2017)
Doctorate in Business Administration (Information and Decision Sciences), University of Illinois at Chicago, (2021-Ongoing)
Research Currently in Progress
"Transfer Learning for Product Utility Estimation"