Faidra Monachou

Faidra Monachou is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Yale School of Management and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY).

She is interested in market design—both its theoretical foundations and applications to public policy—with a focus on education operations. Her research draws on operations research and economics to model and design operational, technological, and policy interventions that optimally balance efficiency and fairness in settings of public interest. Several of her ongoing projects are motivated by collaborations with public school systems in the U.S. and Greece and focus on how AI shapes student learning and advising for high-stakes educational decisions such as college applications. Her work has received the Best Paper with a Student Presenter Award at the ACM EAAMO conference and first place in the inaugural INFORMS DEI Best Student Paper competition.

Before joining Yale, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece.

At Yale, she teaches Operations Management (Public Education) and Policy Modeling.

PhD, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
MSc, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens