Süleyman Kerimov

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Jones Graduate School of Business

Rice University

Email: kerimov@rice.edu

Phone: (713) 348-4467

Office: McNair Hall 244

Curriculum vitae

Bio

I was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. I grew up in Ankara, Türkiye. I received my Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University in 2022, under the supervision of Itai Ashlagi and Itai Gurvich. I received my B.S. in Mathematics from Bilkent University in 2016. I am interested in market design, matching markets, online platforms, and applied probability.

Papers

5. Achieving Constant Regret for Dynamic Matching via State-Independent Policies, with Pengyu Qian, Mingwei Yang, and Sophie H. Yu, working paper. [arXiv]

4. Online Selection with Uncertain Disruption, with Sebastian Perez-Salazar and Yihua Xu. Major Revision at Operations Research. [pdf] [arXiv]

Accepted for presentation at 2025 Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW).

3. The Power of Two in Token Systems, with Itai Ashlagi, Omer Tamuz, and Geng Zhao. Major Revision at Management Science, resubmitted. [pdf] [SSRN] [arXiv]

Recipient of the MATCH-UP 2024 best paper award.

Accepted for presentation at 2024 Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW).

An earlier version appeared as an extended abstract in WINE 2019.

2. On the Optimality of Greedy Policies in Dynamic Matching, with Itai Ashlagi and Itai Gurvich, Operations Research (2025), 73(1):560-582. [pdf] [SSRN] [journal] [talk]

Appeared as an extended abstract in EC 2022.

1. Dynamic Matching: Characterizing and Achieving Constant Regret, with Itai Ashlagi and Itai Gurvich, Management Science (2024), 70(5):2799-2822.
[pdf] [SSRN] [journal] [talk] [Rice Business Wisdom]

Teaching

BUSI 374: Operations Management (Spring 2026)
BUSI 573: Stochastic Models in Operations Management (Spring 2026)