Faculty Directory

Professor of Marketing

Michael G. Foster Endowed Fellow

Education

PhD Carnegie Mellon University (2012)

MS Carnegie Mellon University (2009)

BE Sharif University of Technology (2007)

Academic Expertise

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 2014

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Kenan-Flagler Business School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012-present

Research Intern at Microsoft, 2010-2010

Research Intern at Yahoo!, 2009-2009

Selected Publications

1. “Learning in Online Advertising“

   Journal Article:J. Choi and Amin Sayedi, (2019). Marketing Science, Vol. 38(4), pp. 584-608.
2. “Exclusivity in Online Advertising“

   Journal Article:Sayedi, Amin, K. Jerath and M Baghaie, (2018). Marketing Science, Vol. 37 (6), pp. 970-986.
3. “Real-time Bidding in Online Display Advertising“

   Journal Article:Sayedi, Amin, (2018). Marketing Science, Vol. 37(4), pp. 553-568.
4. “Expertise in Online Markets“

   Journal Article:Despotakis, S., I. Hafalir, R. Ravi and Amin Sayedi, (2017). Management Science, Vol. 63(11), pp. 3895-3910.
5. “Strategic Compliments in Sales“

   Journal Article:Sayedi, A. & Shulman, J., (2017). Quantitative Marketing & Economics, Vol. 15(1), pp. 57-84.
6. “Keyword Management Costs and `Broad Match’ in Sponsored Search Advertising“

   Journal Article: (2016). Marketing Science, Vol. 35(2), pp. 259-274.
7. “Game-theoretic Models of Information Overload in Social Networks“

   Journal Article:Borgs, C., Chayes, J., Karrer B., Meeder, B., Ravi, R., Reagans, R., & Sayedi, A., (2012). Seventh Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph: WAW'10.,
8. “We Know Who You Followed Last Summer: Inferring Social Link Creation Times in Twitter“

   Journal Article:Meeder, B., Karrer, B., Sayedi, A., Ravi, R., Borgs, C., & Chayes, J., (2011). Twentieth International World Wide Web Conference: WWW'11, pp. 517-526.
9. “A Near Pareto Optimal Auction with Budget Constraints“

   Journal Article:Hafalir, I.E., Ravi, R., & Sayedi, A., (2011). Games and Economic Behavior,
10. “Minimizing Movement“

    Journal Article:Demaine, E.D., Hajiaghayi, M., Mahini, H., Sayedi, A., Oveisgharan, S., & Zadimoghaddam, M., (2009). Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms: SoDA'07 and ACM Transaction on Algorithms,
11. “Mechanism Design for Complexity-constrained Bidders“

    Journal Article:Kumar, R., Mahdian, M., & Sayedi, A., (2009). The Fifth Workshop on Internet and Network Economics: WINE'09, pp. 513-520.
12. “Spanning Trees with Minimum Weighted Degrees“

    Journal Article:Ghodsi, M., Mahini, H., Mirjalali, K., Gharan, S.O., Sayedi, A.S., & Zadimoghaddam, M., (2007). Information Processing Letters, Vol. 10(3), pp. 113-116.
13. “Scheduling to Minimize Gaps and Power Consumption“

    Journal Article:Demaine, E.D., Mohammad, G., Hajiaghayi, M., Sayedi, A., & Zadimoghaddam, M., (2007). Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: SPAA'07, pp. 46-54.

Honors and Awards

William W. Cooper Award for Best Dissertation in Management Science, 2012

MSI Research Award for "Challenges of Communications and Branding in Digital Era" joint with K. Jerath, 2011

Egon Bales Award for Best Student Paper in Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008

William L. Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007

2nd Team in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Region Tehran, 2005