I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Yale School of Management. I am also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY).
I study market design and operations for public policy, with a particular focus on education operations. I use mathematical tools from operations research, economics, and data science to design operational, technological, and policy interventions that optimally balance efficiency and fairness.
Before joining Yale, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. I received my Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. I hold an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens in Greece.
For more information, please see my CV.
Contact: You can contact me at faidra.monachou@yale.edu. Feel free to reach out if you would like to collaborate or chat!
September 2025: Yale Insights and YaleNews cover our latest Brookings report in a new Q&A titled "Why Is Enrollment Plunging in the Public Schools?"
August 2025: Our new analysis, "Declining Public School Enrollment", has been published by the Brookings Institution. The research builds on Dylan Council’s undergraduate thesis project.
August 2025: Congratulations to Hemanshu Das on winning a 2025 Duolingo Dissertation Research Grant! Learn more about the project in this Yale SOM news article.
July 2025: Presented our paper "Why the Rooney Rule Fumbles: Limitations of Interview-stage Diversity Interventions in Labor Markets" at ACM EC 2025, RMP 2025, and Universite Toulouse Capitole, GAIMMS'25.
May 2025: Presented our paper "Why Students Reject AI for Human Counselors in College Applications: A Field Experiment" at the Nokia Bell Labs Responsible AI seminar and the University of Michigan Ross Workshop on Unstructured Data and Language Models.
May 2025: Our paper "Why the Rooney Rule Fumbles: Limitations of Interview-stage Diversity Interventions in Labor Markets" was accepted to ACM EC 2025.