Portrait of Omid Rafieian
or83@cornell.edu
Cornell Tech, Bloomberg Center 471
2 West Loop Road
New York, NY 10044
Cornell University

Omid Rafieian

Assistant Professor of Marketing
Demir Sabanci Faculty Fellow of Marketing and Management
Cornell Tech and SC Johnson College of Business

I study digital marketing, mobile advertising, personalization, and privacy through two complementary lenses: how recent advances in machine learning can create value in digital marketplaces, and how theory-driven structural frameworks reveal the marketing and economic implications of those advances.

Publications

2021
Targeting and Privacy in Mobile Advertising
Omid Rafieian and Hema Yoganarasimhan
Marketing Science 40(2), 193–218 · Lead article
★ Winner, Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award, 2021
★ Finalist, John D.C. Little Best Paper Award, 2021

Chapters & Surveys

2023
AI and Personalization
Omid Rafieian and Hema Yoganarasimhan
Review of Marketing Research Vol. 20, pp. 77–102 · in Artificial Intelligence in Marketing

Working Papers

Work in Progress

Value of Perfect User Tracking in Ad Personalization
Sepehr Khadem and Omid Rafieian
Do Social Movements Have Lasting Effects? Evidence from Black Lives Matter and Healthcare Evaluations
Sepehr Khadem, Omid Rafieian, and Vrinda Kadiyali
Customer ‘Relationship’ Management: The Role of Match Quality in Online Dating
Meng Yang, Behnaz Bojd, and Omid Rafieian