Currently based in NYC.
Jessica Shi

hi i'm jessica đź‘‹

I’m a first-year PhD Student in Operations Management at New York University Stern School of Business. Currently, I work with Professor Divya Singhvi and Professor Somya Singhvi on LLM-assisted decision-making. I graduated from Columbia University in 2024 with a degree in operations research.

email: jjs9997 at stern.nyu.edu

CV

-research-

Working Papers

Density and Affinity Dependent Social Segregation and Arbitrage Equilibrium in a Multi-Class Schelling Game
- with Venkat Venkatasubrmanian, Leo Goldman, Arun Sankar E.M., Abhishek Sivaram
Urban design for active mobility: The impact of transportation network geographic density on children’s trips to school
- with Brady Bushover, Sarah Forrest, Ariana N. Gobaud, Christina A. Mehranbod, Leah E. Roberts, Christopher N. Morrison

-awards-

  • The Stephen D. Guarino Memorial Award in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2024
  • Senior Marshal, Columbia University, 2024
  • Second Place at Startup Columbia Technology Track, 2024
  • Amazon SCOT INFORMS Scholarship Recipient, 2023
  • Tau Beta Pi Junior Inductee, 2023
  • Generation Google Scholarship for Supply Chain and Fulfillment, 2022

    • -teaching-

    Teaching Assistantship

  • Simulation Modeling & Analysis, Columbia University, Spring 2024
  • Introduction to Econometrics, Columbia University, Fall 2023
  • Intermediate Microeconomics, Columbia University, Spring 2023
  • Principles of Economics, Columbia University, Fall 2022

    • -other experience-

  • Software Engineering Intern @ Asana, Summer 2023
  • Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft Maps, Summer 2022
  • Software Engineering Intern @ US Census Bureau, Summer 2021