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Duygu Sili PhD Candidate About Me I studied my Ph.D. in economics at Koç University. My interested area is on microeconomics, market design, mechanism design, school choice, matching theory and its applications. I am the Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design program. She earned a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.A. in economics from Bilkent University before earning a Ph.D. in economics in Koç University, where she then worked as a postdoctoral scholar and an instructor last year. Her research interests center around the theoretical and practical aspects of market design, particularly highlighting its application within matching markets. Her research has focused on three main areas: dynamic kidney exchange models, realization of school choice mechanisms in real-world settings, and the evaluation of matching models along with the development of centralized pricing mechanisms for matching customers with service providers for freight transportation (funded by the European Research Council via the Good Mobility Lab at Koç University. The Viterbi postdoctoral fellowship is funded by a generous endowment from Dr. Andrew Viterbi, well known as the co-inventor of Code Division Multiple Access based digital cellular technology and the Viterbi decoding algorithm, used in many digital communication systems.

dsili15@ku.edu.tr Koç University, Rumeli Feneri Campus, Sarıyer, Istanbul, Turkey 34450 www.linkedin.com/in/duygu-sili Duygu Sili Research Interests Microeconomics, market design, mechanism design, matching theory and its application Education 2015 - 2022, Koç University PhD in Economics Dissertation: Three Essays on Matching Theory and Application of School Choice Problems 2013 - 2015, Bilkent University MA in Economics,Turkey 2006 - 2012, Bilkent University BS in Mathematics Postdoctoral Scholar August-January 2024 Viterbi Endowed Postdoctoral Fellowship, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath, formerly MSRI), Market and Mechanism Design Program, Berkeley, California. Working Papers D.Sili, Barıs Yıldız, A Centralized Mechanism for Optimal Customer-Service Provider Matching. January 2023We design a centralized two sided iterative pricing algorithm to match customers with service providers. It can be used in freight transportation. D.Sili,Ö.Yılmaz, How to Incentivize Hospitals in Dynamic Kidney Exchange. in preparation, 2024 Jobmarket Paper We study a multi-hospital dynamic kidney exchange setting: there are two hospitals at which incompatible patient-donor pairs arrive under Poisson process. First, we consider full centralization where hospitals’ pairs are pooled and matched through a centralized mechanism. We show that, unlike the static exchange model (where centralization always yields an increase in the exchange surplus), under this dynamic setting, pooling might have the adverse effect of decreasing the total exchange surplus compared to decentralization, where hospitals match their own pairs separately. Second, we propose a hybrid design where hospitals utilize inter-hospital exchanges only when certain conditions are met. We then show that this hybrid design (with partial centralization) is incentive compatible for hospitals and improves the exchange surplus upon full centralization benchmark. D.Sili, An Empirical Study of Common Enrollment in School Choice: A School Assignment Problem. in preparation,2024 Empirical study of a school choice problem solved by providing a school with significant incentives to persuade it from evading the general student optimal mechanism and this make better off students. Simulations helps there to observe the real life applications of the theory D.Sili, An Empirical Study of Interdistrict School Choice: A School Assignment Problem. in preparation,2024 An application of a theory of student assignment problem, inter-district school choice where a student can be allotted to a school outside of her district is analyzed. The model is a matching with contracts between students and districts where a contract determines the specific school within the district that the student applies. Four policy goals are taken into account: individual rationality, improving student welfare, balanced exchange policy and student diversity in each district. The balanced exchange policy is that the number of students that each district admits from the other district must be equal to the number of students that it transfer to the others. We simulate the real life scenarios by embedding different positive coefficients into the utility functions of each student defined for each school and vice versa. D.Sili, K.Yıldız, Impact of An Additional Donor in Lung/Kidney Exchange 2014-2015 Master Thesis Work in Progress D.Sili, R.Ilkılıç, Project Proposal about Networks in Economic 2013 Networks in economics Work Experience 15 February-July 2024 Koç University, Turkey Postdoctoral Scholar at Department of Industrial Enginnering European Research Council (ERC) funded project in GoodMobility Lab at Koc University Turkey. It is related with the broad area of transportation science and logistics. 12 February-June 2024 Koç University,Turkey Instructor Engineering Economics August 21, 2023 - December 20, 2023 Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath, formerly MSRI) Berkeley, California Postdoctoral Scholar Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Program, Under the guidance of Peter Biro January-August 2023 Koç University, Turkey Postdoctoral Scholar at Department of Industrial Enginnering European Research Council (ERC) funded project in GoodMobility Lab at Koc University Turkey. It is related with the broad area of transportation science and logistics. February-June 2023 Koç University,Turkey Instructor Engineering Economics 2015 - 2022 Koç University,Turkey Teaching Assistant Microeconomics Theory for Graduate Students, Game Theory, Microeconomics Theory, Econometrics 2013 - 2015 Bilkent University,Turkey Teaching Assistant Microeconomics Theory, Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Introduction to Economics Projects ERC-FUNDED Research Project of Erdem Yörük at Koç University April,2021-January,2022 Research Assistant, “The Politics of Welfare in Emerging Market Economies” Senior Undergradute Projects Mathematics in Bilkent University, Turkey Senior Undergradute Projects Mathematics in Bilkent University 2011-2012 D.Sili, A.Kerimov, Graph Theory and Ramsey Coloring for Graphs, 2012 D.Sili, S.Sertöz, Infinite Iterated Exponential and Lambert W function, 2011 Fellowships 2013-2015, Full Merit M.A Scholarship, Bilkent University, Economics 2015-2021, Full Merit PhD Scholarship, Koç University, Economics 2023, Viterbi Endowed Postdoctoral Fellowship, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath, formerly MSRI), Market and Mechanism Design Program Workshops and Conferences EU-funded Training Workshops in Computational Social Sciences,Social ComQuant Project partners, GESIS – Leibniz Institute, December, 2021 Data Analysis and Scientific Programming with Python Workshop EC,2020 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation,2020 ASSA,2021 American Economic Association Annual Meeting ICE-TEA2022 Turkish Economic Association Connections Workshop: Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design Simon Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI 7-8 September 2023 Introductory Workshop: Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design Simon Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI 11-15 September 2023 Online and Matching-Based Market Design workshop, 26-27 October,2023 Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Algorithms, Approximation, and Learning in Market and Mechanism Design Simon Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (formerly MSRI 6-9 November 2023 ASSA 2024 American Economic Association Annual Meeting Qualifications Computer: Familiar OS : Foreign Languages : Soft Skills : Working knowledge of Mat lab,Latex,Python Windows,Java Turkish (native), English (Fluent), German (intermediate – still learning) Works well in team, good at problem solving Graduate Courses Taken Dynamic Programming, Advanced Microeconomics Theory, Networks Model Optimization Stochastic Models Applications, Economics of Information and Contracts Interpolation and Approximation,Experimental Economics, Financial Economics Advanced Macroeconomics Theory, Data science for Operational Research, Forecasting References Özgür Yılmaz Associate Professor of Economics Koç University +90 212 338 1627 ozyilmaz@ku.edu.tr PhD Thesis Advisor Muhammed Ali Yıldırım Associate Professor of Economics Senior Research Fellow at the Growth Lab, Center for International Development at Harvard University Koç University +90 212 338 15 16 mayildirim@ku.edu.tr yildirim@gmail.com Levent Koçkesen Professor of Economics Nazarbayev University Department of Economics lkockesen@gmail.com levent.kockesen@nu.edu.kz Lerzan Örmeci Professor of Industrial Engineering Koç University +90 (212) 338 1534 lormeci@ku.edu.tr

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Market DesignMechanism DesignModeling and SimulationSchool ChoiceFairnessEfficiencyPricing StrategyMatching TheoryKidney exchange