Philipp Afèche

Biography

Philipp Afèche is visiting from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where he is Professor of Operations Management and Statistics. His research is at the interface of operations and marketing/economics. He studies revenue, operations and supply chain management issues, focusing on pricing, service design and resource allocation problems that arise in congestion-prone services such as on-demand transportation or healthcare delivery systems.

Afèche publishes in leading journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Operations Research. He won the 2014 Best Paper Award for one of his papers published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Afèche serves as Associate Editor for Management Science and Operations Research and served as expert reviewer for the national funding agencies in Canada, Hong Kong, Israel and the United States. He is a past chair of the Service Management Special Interest Group of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.

Afèche's teaching includes courses in statistics, operations and supply chain management, revenue management and matching markets. In 2018 he won the Roger Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Afèche holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from University of St. Gallen.  He earned an MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Operations, Information and Technology both from Stanford University.

Academic Areas

• Operations Management