Prior applied research · Digital commerce

Decision systems for e-commerce

Research and prototyping at the intersection of learning, allocation, and optimization for digital marketplace decisions.

2022–2023Contextual bandits · deep RLPricing · selection · logistics

Scope

My work covered several decision problems in e-commerce where a platform must choose among actions, observe uncertain outcomes, and adapt over time.

Selected problem families

  • Dynamic pricing and seller selection.
  • Advertiser or winner selection in marketplace allocation.
  • Contextual bandit and reinforcement-learning formulations.
  • Delivery, supplier allocation, and routing optimization.

What I learned

These projects strengthened a principle that continues to shape my work: an ML model should be judged by the decision process it supports. Reward design, constraints, delayed feedback, and operational feasibility matter as much as predictive accuracy.

Teaching connection

During the same period, I taught reinforcement learning, mathematical optimization, and mathematics for AI, using practical examples and Python implementation to connect formal methods with decisions.