About me
I am an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at the Cameron School of Business at University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Prior to joining UNCW in 2024, I worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston. I completed my Ph.D. in Operations Management from Washington State University in 2020, with a research emphasis on pricing in the presence of sudden shifts in customer willingness-to-pay distribution. My Primary research areas are pricing and revenue optimization and the application of machine learning in supply chain management. My main teaching areas are business statistics, business analytics, and operations management.
Get in touch
⟰ Cameron School of Business, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
4893 Price Dr, Wilmington, NC 28403
✉ kazemis@uncw.edu
Research Interests
Price Optimization and Revenue Management
Business Analytics and Machine Learning
Dynamic Programming, Markov Decision Process, and Reinforcement Learning
Research Publications
Kazemi, M. S., Fotopoulos, S. B., Wang, X. (2022). Minimizing Online Retailers' Revenue Loss Under a Time-Varying Willingness-To-Pay Distribution. International Journal of Production Economics, 257(108767)
Kazemi, M. S., Kazemi, K., Yaghoobi, M., and Bazargan, H. (2016). A hybrid method for estimating the process change point using support vector machine and fuzzy statistical clustering. Applied Soft Computing, 40:507–516.
Kazemi, M. S., Bazargan, H., and Yaghoobi, M. A. (2014). Estimating the drift time for processes subject to linear trend disturbance using fuzzy statistical clustering. International Journal of Production Research, 52(11):3317–3330.
Under Review & Work in Progress
Optimal Pricing Decisions for Port Operators and Shipping Lines with the Nested Logit Choice Model. (with Xinchang Wang, under review)
Optimal Pricing Decisions for Newly Launched Products with Temporally Changing Qualities in the Presence of Social Learning. (with Nikos Voulgarakis, under review)
An Unsupervised Method for Matching User Reviews and Product Descriptions on E-Commerce Platforms for Seller Insights. (with Gihan Edirisinghe)
Modeling Freight Demand with Logit Mixture Choice Models. (with Stergios Fotopoulos and Xinchang Wang)
Optimal Pricing Policies with Model-free Reinforcement Learning in the Presence of Social Learning.
Teaching
Pricing and Revenue Management. Graduate/Undergraduate Course. Fall 2020 -Spring 2024
⚬ Conrad N. Hilton College, University of Houston.
Business Analytics. Online MBA Program. Spring 2020 - Present
⚬ Carson College of Business, Washington State University.
Business Statistics. Undergraduate Core Course. Spring 2016 - Present
⚬ Carson College of Business, Washington State University.
Operations Management. Undergraduate Course. Spring 2018 - Summer 2019
⚬ Carson College of Business, Washington State University.