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 am interested in market design—both its theoretical foundations and applications to public policy—with a focus on education operations. My research draws on operations research, economics, and data science to study and design operational, technological, and policy interventions that balance efficiency and fairness, particularly in educational systems.
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!
April 2026: "Does Eliminating a Testing Requirement Make College Admissions More Inclusive?" in Yale Insights discusses our paper "Dropping Standardized Testing for Admissions Trades Off Information and Access", forthcoming in Management Science.
December 2025: New working paper: "Offsetting Carbon with Lemons: Adverse Selection and Certification in the Voluntary Carbon Market".
Fall 2025: Recent and upcoming talks at New America (Educational Policy), INFORMS 2025, ACM EAAMO 2025, EdukCircle.
September 2025: Yale Insights, YaleNews, The Hechinger Report, and Business Insider cover our latest Brookings report.
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.