Jad Salem

About me

I'm an Assistant Professor of mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy. I'm interested in education, discrete mathematics, operations research, and the intersection of algorithms and society.

My CV.

News

12/2022: I will be presenting at WINE 2022.
Algorithmic Challenges in Ensuring Fairness at the Time of Decision (joint work with Swati Gupta and Vijay Kamble)
10/2022: I will be presenting at INFORMS 2022.
Online Selection Subject to Ordinal Fairness (joint work with Swati Gupta)
8/2022: We received a minor revision from Management Science.
Secretary Problems with Biased Evaluations using Partial Ordinal Information (joint work with Swati Gupta)
6/2022: I will be speaking at FAccT 2022.
Don't let Ricci v. DeStefano Hold You Back: A Bias-Aware Legal Solution to the Hiring Paradox (joint work with Swati Gupta and Deven Desai)
10/2021: I will be speaking at INFORMS 2021.
Taming Wild Price Fluctuations: Monotone Algorithms for Stochastic Convex Optimization with Bandit Feedback (joint work with Swati Gupta and Vijay Kamble)
10/2021: I spoke at the Cornell ORIE Young Researchers Workshop 2021.
Fairness in Online Selection (joint work with Swati Gupta)
9/2021: This semester, I became a co-organizer of the ACO Student Seminar.
6/2021: This summer, I am excited to be a research assistant at Oracle Labs.
Bias, Fairness, and Hiring
6/2021: I will be speaking at MSOM 2021.
Taming Wild Price Fluctuations: Monotone Stochastic Convex Optimization with Bandit Feedback (joint work with Swati Gupta and Vijay Kamble)
6/2021: I will be speaking at PLSC 2021.
Hiring Practices: Biased Data, Fairer Algorithms, and Discrimination Law (joint work with Swati Gupta and Deven Desai)
6/2021: I will be speaking at CORS 2021.
Secretary Problems with Combinatorial Constraints and Partial Ordinal Information (joint work with Swati Gupta)
4/2021: After COVID-related postponement, we finally hosted Georgia Tech's High School Math Competition.
3/2021: I led a workshop at Georgia Tech's 9th Annual GoSTEM Latino College & STEM Fair.
12/2020: We received a major revision from Management Science.
Closing the GAP: Group-Aware Parallelization for the Secretary Problem with Biased Evaluations (joint work with Swati Gupta)
12/2020: I presented at WINE 2020.
Closing the Gap: Mitigating Bias in Online Résumé-Filtering (joint work with Swati Gupta)
11/2020: I spoke in the Fairness in Operations Research session at INFORMS 2020.
Individual Fairness in Pricing (joint work with Swati Gupta and Vijay Kamble)
10/2020: Swati Gupta, Deven Desai, and I spoke at the University of San Diego School of Law.
Hiring Practices: Biased Data, Fairer Algorithms, and Discrimination Law (joint work with Swati Gupta and Deven Desai)
9/2020: I spoke at the ACO Student Seminar Series.
Online Selection with Cardinality Constraints under Bias (joint work with Swati Gupta)
6/2020: I spoke at the Canadian Operations Research Society 2020 annual conference.
Secretary Problems with Combinatorial Constraints and Partial Ordinal Information (joint work with Swati Gupta)
—cancelled due to COVID-19
3/2020: I spoke at INFORMS Optimization Society 2020.
Secretary Problems with Partial Ordinal Information (joint work with Swati Gupta)
—cancelled due to COVID-19
2020: I'm on the organizing committee for Georgia Tech's High School Math Competition.
—cancelled due to COVID-19