Fariba Farajbakhsh Mamaghani

Biography

Dr. Fariba Mamaghani is an Assistant Professor of Management Science at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and a member of the Tulane Energy Institute Advisory Board. Her research examines how data centers and the rapid growth of AI are reshaping electricity demand and prices, along with how households choose electricity contracts and how utilities should price and invest to stay affordable. Her work has been published in Operations Research, and several of her recent papers are under review at top journals in operations and management science. She recently received two Tulane research grants, a Data and AI Research Grant and a Committee on Research (COR) grant. She works closely with leading energy companies, and her approach combines optimization, game theory, and machine learning. She has presented at London Business School, Harvard, and UC Irvine, and her research has been featured in news media. She is the elected Cluster Chair of the INFORMS ENRE Environment and Sustainability Cluster and Vice President of Outreach and Awards for the POMS College of Sustainability. She teaches Business Statistics to MBA, Professional MBA, and Master of Management in Energy students. She joined Freeman's tenure-track faculty in 2023 after two years as a visiting assistant professor, and holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as a BS and MS in industrial engineering from Sharif University of Technology.