2025 MDAL Grant Research Roundtable
Schedule
Tue Mar 24 2026 at 10:00 am to 01:45 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Rotman School of Management | Toronto, ON
About this Event
In 2025, the TD MDAL lab awarded funds to the successful projects listed below.
The research roundtables help the Rotman community understand how data analytics is being deployed and how it is relevant across a wide range of areas. The lab is proud to support our faculty and PhD students from all areas of the Graduate Department of Management with their research using data analytics and machine learning.
Join us to learn about the research being conducted across the school!
AGENDA
March 24, 2026 — RM1065
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ryan Webb, Academic Director, Management Data and Analytics Lab (MDAL)
10:05 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.
Daniel Goetz — Faculty, Marketing
Occupational Licensing and Psychologist Supply
10:25 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Xu Zhenghang — PhD Student, Operations Management & Statistics
Dynamic Pricing in Congested Service Systems
10:45 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Craig Fernandes — PhD Student, Operations Management & Statistics
Data-Driven B2B Pricing
11:05 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.
Zhang (Ken) Xingjian — PhD Student, Strategic Management
When Do Audiences Trust AI?
11:25 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Nicolas Harvie — PhD Student, Finance
Who Wins on Polymarket?
12:20 p.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Clark Shu — PhD Student, Accounting
Geopolitical Risk Communication
12:40 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Break
1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Parvin Malekzadeh — Researcher, Operations Management & Statistics
RL for Patient Routing
1:20 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Yanuo Zhou — PhD Student, Strategic Management
Estimating the Accuracy-Harmlessness Trade-off in GenAI
1:40 p.m.
Adjourn
AGENDA
April 2, 2026 — RM1065
10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ryan Webb, Academic Director, Management Data and Analytics Lab (MDAL)
10:05 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.
Seyedeh Parisa Moosavi — PhD Student, Operations Management & Statistics
Data Efficiency in Coupled Dynamic Systems
10:25 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Ming Hu — Faculty, Operations Management & Statistics
LLM Collusion
10:45 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Goutham Gopalakrishna — Faculty, Finance
Financial Market Segmentation
11:05 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
Maximiliano Goncalves — PhD Student, Economics
Monopsony Power in Publishing
11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Kristina McElheran — Faculty, Strategic Management
Team Composition & Discovery
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Irene Yi — Faculty, Finance
Voting Rationales
1:20 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Giulia Sargiacomo — PhD Student, Accounting
Climate-Change Disclosure
1:40 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Samsun Knight — Faculty, Marketing
Retailer Agglomeration & Consumer Traffic Patterns
2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Sijie Lin — PhD Student, Economics
Generative AI & Creativity
2:20 p.m.
Adjourn
2026 MDAL Grant Research Roundtable
April 7, 2026 — RM147
10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ryan Webb, Academic Director, Management Data and Analytics Lab (MDAL)
10:05 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.
Divyesh Shah — PhD Student, Accounting
Political Information for Stakeholders
10:25 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Ting Xu — Faculty, Finance
Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work
10:45 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Grusha Agarwal — PhD Student, OBHRM
Gender Bias in Workplace Complaints
11:05 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.
Lulin Song — PhD Student, Accounting
Price Transparency in Healthcare
11:25 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Manuela Collis — PhD Student, Strategic Management
Sexual Misconduct & Scientific Production
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Lunch Break
12:15 p.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Jincheng Tong — Faculty, Finance
Macroeconomic Effects of AI
12:35 p.m. – 12:55 p.m.
Bo Lin — Researcher, Operations Management & Statistics
Prescriptive Analytics
12:55 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Zhiyang Luo — PhD Student, Finance
Option Returns & Information
1:15 p.m. – 1:35 p.m.
Zigang Li — PhD Student, Finance
Data Acquisition in the Age of AI
1:35 p.m.
Adjourn
Where is it happening?
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