Welcome to my webpage! My name is Atanas Dinev and I am third-year Ph.D. student at the Operations Research Center at MIT where I am advised by Prof. Thodoris Lykouris.

My research interests broadly lie in sequential decision-making, machine learning, online algorithms, game theory and their applications to online marketplaces and platforms. I am also generally interested in revenue management and applied modelling.

Prior to joining MIT, I graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with Bacherlor’s degree in Mathematics. While at Princeton, I worked with Prof. Matt Weinberg on projects in Algorithmic Game Theory and Algorithms Under Uncertainty. Here is my CV.

In my free time, I enjoy playing table tennis, basketball, and running outdoors.

Publications

Social Learning with Limited Attention: Negative Reviews Persist under Newest First
with Jackie Baek and Thodoris Lykouris
Major Revision Operations Research

• 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2024)
• INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference SIG Day (MSOM SIG 2025)
• INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference (RMP 2024)

Simple and Optimal Online Contention Resolution Schemes for k-uniform matroids
with S. Matthew Weinberg

• 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024)

Tight bounds on 3-team manipulations in Randomized Death Match
with S. Matthew Weinberg

• 18th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2022)

Talks

Social Learning with Limited Attention: Negative Reviews Persist under Newest First

• INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference SIG Day (MSOM SIG 2025)
• Marketplace Innovation Workshop (MIW 2025)
• INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA (INFORMS 2024)
• INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference (RMP 2024)
• 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2024)
• INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference (MSOM 2024)

Simple and Optimal Online Contention Resolution Schemes for k-uniform matroids

• 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, Berkeley (ITCS 2024)

Tight bounds on 3-team manipulations in Randomized Death Match

• 18th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2022)
• Combinatorics-related Open Problems Seminar (CROPS), Rutgers University, September 2022

Teaching Experience

Data, Models, and Decisions (15.060), Graduate (MBA Core), Fall 2024, MIT, Teaching Assistant

The Analytics Edge (15.071), Graduate (MBA), Spring 2024, MIT, Head Teaching Assistant

Economics and Computation (COS 445), Undergraduate, Spring 2022, Princeton University

Academic Serivce

Seminar Coordinator, MIT Operations Research Center Seminar Spring 2025

Reviewer for ICML 2025