Yaron Shaposhnik

Yaron Shaposhnik is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. His research focuses on stochastic dynamic optimization, machine learning applications, and business analytics. He holds degrees from MIT (Operations Research) and the Technion–IIT (Industrial Engineering and Information Systems Engineering).

Education:

• PhD in Operations Research, MIT
• MS in Industrial Engineering, Technion–IIT
• BS in Information Systems Engineering, Technion–IIT

Research interests include developing decision support tools leveraging analytics to improve operations, with a focus on healthcare systems, financial lending, and scheduling algorithms. His work bridges optimization theory and practical applications, emphasizing interpretable machine learning models.

Teaching includes predictive analytics using Python, PhD-level optimization courses, and seminars on data analytics in operations management. He advises PhD students and has industry experience as a research intern at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and software engineer at Mind CTI.