Majid Karimi
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Waterloo
Office: Carl Pollock Hall (CPH) 4351
I am a 4th year Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo. I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Stanko Dimitrov. I have done my Undergraduate and Masters studies in Mathematics and Statistics. During my undergraduate and graduate studies, I worked on: optimization, game theory, and mathematical modelling. My current research falls under the umbrella of business analytics and decision analysis. I am fascinated by the phenomenon of prediction and forecasting. As such, I am very interested in predictive analytics. Predictive analytics is an integral part of business analytics which is used to make predictions/estimations about future events.
Research
| Research Expertise: Prediction Markets, Predictive Analytics, Business Analytics, Decision Analysis, Optimization, Mathematical Modelling, Game Theory. | |
| Submitted Articles: - Majid Karimi, Stanko Dimitrov. Making Science of "Art": Risk Bias in Market Scoring Rules. Decision Analysis. Submitted September 2016. Working Papers: - Majid Karimi, Stanko Dimitrov. To Subsidize or not to unsubsidize: A Causality Analysis of Prediction Market Mechanisms - Majid Karimi, Stanko Dimitrov. Prediction Markets and Risk Averse Traders: Effect of Risk Bias on Prediction Market Accuracy. Other: - Majid Karimi, Root Finding In Graphs. MSC Thesis. Brock University. 2013. | |
| Contributed Talks: Making Science of "Art": Risk Bias in Market Scoring Rules, CORS Annual Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada. | June 2016 |
| On Agents' Risk Bias in Deterministic Market Scoring Rules, INOFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. | November 2015 |
| On the On-line Key Word Auctions and Search Engines Advertisement Network, Brock University. | May 2013 |
| Graph Power and Graph Root(s), Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, Fields Instituted, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | May 2012 |
Current Professional Activities
| Session Chair, Decision Analysis Society (DAS), INFORMS 2016, Information Elicitation Session. | November 2016 |
| Vice President, Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS), Waterloo Chapter, | Since May 2016 |
Education
| PhD Candidate, Management Sciences Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo Supervisor: Dr. Stan Dimitrov Topic: Prediction Markets | 2017 (expected) |
| MASc, Mathematics and Statistics Department of Mathematics, Brock University Supervisor: Dr. Babak Farzad Thesis: Root Finding in Graphs | 2013 |
| BASc, Mathematics and Statistics Department of Mathematical Sciences, Isfahan University of Technology | 2010 |
Teaching
| Instructor Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo | Spring 2015 |
| Teaching Assistant Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo | Fall 2013 - present |
| Instructor Department of Mathematics, Brock University | Winter 2013 |
| Teaching Assistant Department of Mathematics, Brock University | Winter 2011 - Fall 2012 |