Ph.D. in Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003.

B.S.E. summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 1996.

MBA715, Data Analytics & Decision-Making. MBA course on analytics and machine learning.

      -- Taught (2024-2025) as elective course in the full-time MBA program.

MBA706A, Thinking and Communicating with Data. Elective MBA course on data visualization, Tableau, and critical thinking with data.

      -- Co-taught with Patty Harms in the full-time MBA program, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2024.

MBA716A, Analytics & Machine Learning for Managerial Decisions. Elective MBA course on descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.

      -- Co-designed and co-taught with Seyed Emadi and Vinayak Deshpande, Spring 2023

Business Foundations: Business Statistics. Asynchronous skills preparation course on probability, statisitcs, and data analysis for incoming MBA students

      -- Designed and recorded 2022

      -- Deployed 2022--present

MBA714, Business Statistics and Analytics & MBA700, Analytical Tools. Core MBA statistics and decision modeling courses.

      -- Last taught Fall 2017 in the full-time MBA program.

      -- Last taught Spring 2023 in the Weekend Executive MBA program.

      -- Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in MBA Teaching, 2011 & 2017.

      -- Award for Teaching Excellence, from Weekend Executive MBA classes of 2018 and 2014.

      -- Distinguished Core Faculty Award for Outstanding Instruction, from MBA Classes of 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, and 2009.

      -- Distinguished Core Faculty Award for Outstanding Dedication, from MBA Class of 2010.

MBA700, Analytical Tools. Core statistics and decision modeling course in the MBA@UNC online MBA program.

      -- Developer and lead professor with Alan Neebe, 2011-2019.

MBA703, Operations Management. Core MBA course on process analysis, inventory, and supply chain management.

      -- Last taught Summer 2011 in the Evening Executive MBA program.

MBA706, Data Analytics: Tools and Opportunities. Elective MBA course on data modeling and analytics strategy.

      -- Last taught Spring 2015 in the full-time MBA program.

MBA706, Data Analytics. Elective course on data modeling and analytics for MBA@UNC online MBA program.

      -- Developer and lead professor with Tarun Kushwaha, 2015-2020.

Nicole DeHoratius, Andreas Holzapfel, Heinrich Kuhn, Adam J. Mersereau, and Michael Sternbeck. 2023. Evaluating Count Prioritization Procedures for Improving Inventory Accuracy in Retail Stores. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 25 (1) 288--306

Oğuz Çetin, Adam J. Mersereau, and Ali Parlakturk. 2020. Management and Effects of In-Store Promotional Displays. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 22 (3) 481--494

Gah-Yi Ban, Jérémie Gallien, and Adam J. Mersereau. 2019. Dynamic Procurement of New Products with Covariate Information: The Residual Tree Method. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 21 (4) 798--815

Li Chen, Adam J. Mersereau, and Zhe Wang. 2017. Optimal Merchandise Testing with Limited Inventory. Operations Research. 65 (4) 968--991.

Zhe Wang and Adam J. Mersereau. 2017. Bayesian Inventory Management with Potential Change-Points in Demand. Production and Operations Management 26 (2) 341-359.

Jérémie Gallien, Adam J. Mersereau, Andres Garro, Alberte Dapena Mora, and Martin Nóvoa Vidal. 2015. Initial Shipment Decisions for New Products at Zara. Operations Research. 63 (2) 269-286.

      -- Featured in UNC Kenan-Flagler's ROI Magazine, Fall 2014.

Adam J. Mersereau. 2015. Demand Estimation from Censored Observations with Inventory Record Inaccuracy. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 17 (3) 335-349.

Li Chen and Adam J. Mersereau. 2015. Analytics for Operational Visibility in the Retail Store: The Cases of Censored Demand and Inventory Record Inaccuracy. N. Agrawal and S. Smith (editors). Retail Supply Chain Management (2nd edition). Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 79-112.

Dan Adelman and Adam J. Mersereau. 2013. Dynamic Capacity Allocation to Customers Who Remember Past Service. Management Science 59 (3) 592-612.

Adam J. Mersereau. 2013. Information-Sensitive Replenishment when Records Are Inaccurate. Production and Operations Management 22 (4) 792-810.

Adam J. Mersereau and Dan Zhang. 2012. Markdown Pricing with Unknown Fraction of Strategic Customers. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 14 (3) 355-370.

Adam J. Mersereau, Paat Rusmevichientong, and John N. Tsitsiklis. 2009. A Structured Multiarmed Bandit Problem and the Greedy Policy. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 54 (12) 2787-2802.

      -- Earlier, abbreviated version in Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC08).

Nicole DeHoratius, Adam J. Mersereau, and Linus Schrage. 2008. Retail Inventory Management When Records Are Inaccurate. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 10 (2) 257-277.

      -- Winner, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Best Paper Award, 2009.

      -- Featured in UNC Kenan-Flagler's ROI Magazine, Spring 2010.

Dan Adelman and Adam J. Mersereau. 2008. Relaxations of Weakly Coupled Stochastic Dynamic Programs. Operations Research 56 (3) 712-727.

Dimitris Bertsimas and Adam J. Mersereau. 2007. A Learning Approach for Interactive Marketing to a Customer Segment. Operations Research 55 (6) 1120-1135.

Dimitris Bertsimas, Adam J. Mersereau, and Nitin Patel. 2003. Dynamic Classification of Online Customers. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM03) 107-118.

Fernando Bernstein, Bora Keskin, Adam J. Mersereau, Morgan Wood, Serhan Ziya. 2024. Data-Driven Population Tracking in Large Service Systems.

Zahra Ziaei, Adam J. Mersereau, Seyed Emadi, and Vidyaranya Gargeya. 2023. Inferring Consideration Sets from Heatmap Data.

Fernando Bernstein, Bora Keskin, Adam J. Mersereau, Morgan Wood, Serhan Ziya. 2024. Show-Up Profiles for Scheduled Services: Estimation and Applications.

Dan Adelman, Adam J. Mersereau, and Parshan Pakiman. 2024. Dynamic Assignment of Jobs to Workers with Learning Curves.

Oğuz Çetin, Adam J. Mersereau, and Ali Parlakturk. 2023. Retailer and Manufacturer Perspectives on Trade Deals Involving In-Store Promotional Displays.

Karthik V. Natarajan, Dimitris Kostamis, and Adam J. Mersereau. Strategic Demand Information Sharing Between Competitors. (Version 26 July 2012)