About me

I am an assistant professor at NYU Stern in the Department of Technology, Operations and Statistics. Prior to this, I was a research fellow in the Simons Institute at UC Berkeley, and I obtained my PhD in Operations Research from MIT, advised by Prof. Vivek Farias.

My research focuses on human-centered data-driven algorithms. I study the societal impact of AI systems, and I develop data-driven and AI-based methods for decision-making and human-AI collaboration.

Email: baek (at) stern (dot) nyu (dot) edu
Office: Kaufman Management Center, 8-77
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Selected Papers

Data-Driven and Agentic Decision-Making

• AI Agents for Inventory Control: Human-LLM-OR Complementarity
  with Yaopeng Fu, Will Ma, Tianyi Peng
  Accepted to EC 2026
• LLM-SAA: LLM-persona Generated Distributions for Decision-making
  with Yunhan Chen, Ziyu Chi, Will Ma
• Optimal Exploration of New Products under Assortment Decisions
  with Atanas Dinev, Thodoris Lykouris
• Policy Optimization for Personalized Interventions in Behavioral Health
  with Justin Boutilier, Vivek Farias, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Erez Yoeli
  M&SOM, 2025; Winner, Pierskalla Best Paper Award 2024

Societal Impact of AI Systems

• Misspecified Estimate-then-Optimize Leads to Supra-Competitive Prices
  with Vivek Farias, Farrell Wu
• The Feedback Loop of Statistical Discrimination
  with Ali Makhdoumi
  Major Revision, Management Science; EAAMO 2025
• Strategic Hiring under Algorithmic Monoculture
  with Hamsa Bastani, Shihan Chen
• Fair Exploration via Axiomatic Bargaining
  with Vivek Farias
  Management Science, 2024; NeurIPS 2021 (Spotlight)

See Research for all papers.