Sebastien Martin
Assistant Professor of Operations
Sebastien Martin is an Assistant Professor of Operations at Kellogg. He received his Ph.D. in operations research from MIT and an M.Sc. in applied mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique. Before joining Kellogg, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the ridesharing company Lyft. He is a twice Edelman Award Laureate (2019 and 2023) and has received the George Dantzig and TLS Society dissertation awards.
His research examines the interface between humans and algorithms in public sector operations and online platforms, focusing on prescriptive analytics and motivated by real-world impact. He designed Lyft's dispatch algorithm, increasing drivers' yearly revenue by tens of millions. He also optimized the school transportation systems of Boston and San Francisco, enabling millions of dollars to be reinvested every year in children's education while increasing fairness.
- Sebastien Martin joined the faculty of the Operations group at Kellogg in 2020. He received his Ph.D. in operations research from MIT and an MSc in applied mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique. Before joining Kellogg
- he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the ridesharing company Lyft.Sebastien's research is at the interface of optimization
- transportation
- and policy. His work focuses on designing scalable algorithms and decision-making tools in the age of the sharing economy to enable efficient and equitable transportation systems. He is a Franz Edelman Award laureate. His research also directly led to many impactful applications: he partnered with Boston Public Schools to redesign the district bus routes and save millions of dollars. He also partnered with the San Francisco public school district to change the school's start and end times
- leading to more efficient student transportation and improving social equity. He also worked with Lyft
- Inc. to change their online matching algorithm
- savings tens of millions of dollars every year.
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Franz Edelman Award Laureate, INFORMS
George Dantzig Best Dissertation Award, INFORMS
TLS Society Best Dissertation Award, INFORMS
Franz Edelman Award Laureate, INFORMS -
Referee, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), 2019
Referee, European Journal of Operations Research, 2019
Referee, Operations Research, 2019
Referee, Management Science, 2019
MBAi Operations Management (OPNS-435-0)
Operations Management (OPNS-430-0)
1Ys: This course is typically waived through the admissions process or the equivalent course Operations Management (Turbo) (OPNS-438A) was completed during the Summer term. MMMs: This course is equivalent to the MMM core course Designing and Managing Business Processes (OPNS-440) Operations management is the management of business processes--that is, the management of the recurring activities of a firm. This course aims to familiarize students with the problems and issues confronting operations managers, and to provide the language, concepts, insights and tools to deal with these issues to gain competitive advantage through operations. We examine how different business strategies require different business processes and how different operational capabilities allow and support different strategies to gain competitive advantage. A process view of operations is used to analyze different key operational dimensions such as capacity management, cycle time management, supply chain and logistics management, and quality management. Finally, we connect to recent developments such as lean or world-class manufacturing, just-in-time operations, time-based competition and business re-engineering.
