Jacob Bien and Adel Javanmard have a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series B (JRSSB) titled, “Prediction Sets for High-Dimensional Mixture of Experts Models.”

Andrew Daw was invited to become an associate editor for Operations Research (OR).

Yingying Fan was elected a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).

Zijun Gao had two papers accepted by the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS): “Trustworthy Assessment of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimator” and “Bridging Multiple Worlds: Multi-marginal Optimal Transport for Causal Partial-identification Problem.”

Adel Javanmard had a paper accepted by the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025) titled, “Robust Feature Learning for Multi-Index Models in High Dimensions.”

Mladen Kolar has a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Machine Learning Research titled, “Adaptive Client Sampling in Federated Learning via Online Learning with Bandit Feedback.”

Gourab Mukherjee has a paper forthcoming in the Journal of American Statistical Association titled, “Using Penalized Synthetic Controls on Truncated Data: A Case Study on Effect of Marijuana Legalization on Direct Payments to Physicians by Opioid Manufacturers.” He was also elected as the Chair-elect of American Statistical Association’s Marketing section starting this month.

Georgios Petropoulos has a paper forthcoming to be presented at the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-58) Conference Proceedings titled, “Resale Royalties for Digital Goods.”

Matteo Sesia and Xin Tong have a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series B titled, “Adaptive Conformal Classification with Noisy Labels.”

Dennis Shen has a paper forthcoming in Scientific Reports titled, “Obtaining Personalized Predictions from a Randomized Controlled Trial on Alzheimer’s Disease.”

Somya Singhvi has a paper forthcoming in Operations Research titled, “Online Learning with Sample Selection Bias.”

Waverly Wei has a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series B (JRSSB) titled, “Adaptive Experiments Toward Learning Treatment Effect Heterogeneity.”

Yanfei Zhou PhD will receive the prestigious 2025 University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award; her contributions will be recognized at the 44th Annual USC Academic Honors Convocation in April.

Bobby Carnes has a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting titled, “Mandated Public Disclosure and Trade Credit Payment Practices.”

Daniel Fehder has a paper forthcoming in the Strategic Management Journal titled, “Spillover Effects of Startup Accelerator Programs: Evidence from Venture-Backed Startup Activity.”

Nan Jia will speak on the “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Strategic Management” panel, held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this month.

Shantanu Dutta and Nikhil Malik presented “AI Data and Technology Policy: Lessons from India” during the USC-IIMB Mini Conference held at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Shantanu Dutta and Somya Singhvi (DSO) have a paper forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management titled, “Buying Cheap: Brand Switching During Economic Distress and Its Disparate Impact on Consumers.”

Deborah J. MacInnis (with Mark Thomson and C. Whan Park) received the inaugural Long-Term Contribution Award by the Journal of Consumer Psychology for the paper titled, “The Ties That Bind: Measuring the Strength of Consumers’ Emotional Attachments to Brands.”

Nikhil Malik had a paper published in Information Systems Research (Vol. 35, No. 4) titled, “When Does Beauty Pay? A Large-Scale Image-Based Appearance Analysis on Career Transitions.”

Ike Silver has a paper forthcoming in Psychological Science titled, “Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions.”

Stephanie Tully has a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing titled, “Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity.”

Sha Yang was elected as the vice president of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science for the 2025–2026 term. Her paper, “A Representative Sampling Method for Peer Encouragement Designs in Network Experiments,” was selected as one of the five finalists for the 2025 ASA Marketing Doctoral Dissertation Research Award.