Süleyman Kerimov

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Virani Undergraduate School of Business

Jones Graduate School of Business

Rice University

Email: kerimov@rice.edu

Phone: (713) 348-4467

Office: Virani Hall 389

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

I was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. I grew up in Ankara, Türkiye.

I received my B.S. in Mathematics from Bilkent University, and my Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University.

I work on market design and applied probability.

Papers

6. Coordinating Markets via Perturbed Prices, with Pengyu Qian, submitted. [pdf]

5. Availability Is All You Need: Achieving Optimal Regret with Minimal Information for Dynamic Matching, with Pengyu Qian, Mingwei Yang, and Sophie H. Yu. Major Revision at Management Science. [pdf]

4. Online Selection with Uncertain Disruption, with Yihua Xu and Sebastian Perez-Salazar, Operations Research (2026+). [pdf] [journal]

3. The Power of Two in Token Systems, with Itai Ashlagi, Omer Tamuz, and Geng Zhao, Management Science (2026+). [pdf] [journal] [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] [Rice Business Wisdom]

Teaching

BUSI 374: Operations Management, S23, S24, S25, S26

BUSI 573: Stochastic Models in Operations Management, S26, S27

BUSI 731: Foundations of Operations Management, S23, S24

MGMT 602: Business Basics in Healthcare Management, SU26