Süleyman Kerimov

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Jones Graduate School of Business
Rice University

Research interests: market design, applied probability

Email: kerimov@rice.edu

Phone: (713) 348-4467

Office: McNair Hall 244

Bio

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Grew up in Ankara, Türkiye.

Ph.D. in Operations Research, Stanford University, 2022.

B.S. in Mathematics, Bilkent University, 2016.

Curriculum Vitae

Papers

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

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

3. The Power of Two in Token Systems, with Itai Ashlagi, Omer Tamuz, and Geng Zhao, Management Science (2025+). [pdf] [MATCH-UP 2024 best paper award]

2. On the Optimality of Greedy Policies in Dynamic Matching, with Itai Ashlagi and Itai Gurvich, Operations Research (2025). [pdf] [journal]

1. Dynamic Matching: Characterizing and Achieving Constant Regret, with Itai Ashlagi and Itai Gurvich, Management Science (2024). [pdf] [journal]

Teaching

BUSI 374: Operations Management (Spring 2026), T/Th 1pm-3:45pm, OH: M 1pm-2pm. [syllabus]

BUSI 573: Stochastic Models in Operations Management (Spring 2026), T 4:30pm-7:30pm, OH: by appointment. [syllabus]