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Danny Segev

Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences
Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University
Email: segevdanny@tauex.tau.ac.il

Research Interests

  • Mathematical aspects of optimization: Stochastic, dynamic, combinatorial. 

  • Computational/analytical revenue management: Assortment planning, inventory control, dynamic pricing, resource allocation. 

Some Recent Publications

Appeared / Accepted (2025+)

  • Danny Segev. Improved approximation guarantees for joint replenishment in continuous time. Mathematics of Operations Research (forthcoming).

  • Theo Barre, Omar El Housni, Marouane Ibn Brahim, Andrea Lodi, and Danny Segev. Assortment optimization with visibility constraints. Mathematical Programming (forthcoming).

  • Omar El Housni, Marouane Ibn Brahim, and Danny Segev. Maximum load assortment optimization: Approximation algorithms and adaptivity gaps. Operations Research (forthcoming). 

  • Guillermo Gallego and Danny Segev. A constructive prophet inequality approach to the adaptive ProbeMax problem. Mathematical Programming (forthcoming).

  • Danny Segev. Near-optimal adaptive policies for serving stochastically departing customers. Operations Research (forthcoming).

  • Ali Aouad, Jacob Feldman, Danny Segev, and Dennis Zhang. Click-based MNL: Algorithmic frameworks for modeling click data in assortment optimization. Management Science, 71(8):6943-6960, 2025. 

  • Jacob Feldman and Danny Segev. Dynamic pricing with menu costs: Approximation schemes and applications to grocery retail. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27(4):1087–1106, 2025.

  • Danny Segev. The continuous-time joint replenishment problem: ε-optimal policies via pairwise alignment. Management Science, 71(5):4183-4197, 2025.

In review / Working papers

  • Danny Segev and Gidi Steinberg. Improved approximation guarantees and hardness results for MNL-driven product ranking. Working paper.

  • Xingxing Chen, Levi DeValve, Jacob Feldman, Yukai Huang, and Danny Segev. Approximation schemes for dynamic pricing with opaque products. Working paper.

  • Danny Segev. Near-optimal dynamic policies for joint replenishment in continuous/discrete time. Working paper.

  • Noga Alon and Danny Segev. New approximation guarantees for the inventory staggering problem. Working paper.

  • Danny Segev. New approximation guarantees for the economic warehouse lot scheduling problem. Working paper.

  • Dan Nissim, Danny Segev, and Alfredo Torrico. Revenue maximization in choice-based matching markets. Working paper.

  • Aviya Goldstein Feder and Danny Segev. Dynamic assortment optimization of horizontally-differentiated products: Improved approximations and universal constructions. Submitted to Operations Research.

  • Danny Segev and Sahil Singla. Efficient approximation schemes for stochastic probing and selection-stopping problems. Submitted to Mathematics of Operations Research.

Particularly interesting topics

  • Yicheng Bai, Jacob Feldman, Danny Segev, Huseyin Topaloglu, and Laura Wagner. Assortment optimization under the multi-purchase Multinomial Logit choice model. Operations Research, 72(6):2631-2664, 2024.

  • Alon Rieger and Danny Segev. Quasi-polynomial time approximation schemes for assortment optimization under Mallows-based rankings. Mathematical Programming, 208:111-171, 2024.

  • Ali Aouad and Danny Segev. An approximate dynamic programming approach to the incremental knapsack problem. Operations Research, 71(4):1414-1433, 2023.

  • Ali Aouad, Jacob Feldman, and Danny Segev. The Exponomial choice model for assortment optimization: An alternative to the MNL model? Management Science, 69(5):2814-2832, 2023.

  • Ali Aouad and Danny Segev. The stability of MNL-based demand under dynamic customer substitution and its algorithmic implications. Operations Research, 71(4):1216-1249, 2023.

  • Yuri Faenza, Danny Segev, and Lingyi Zhang. Approximation algorithms for the generalized incremental knapsack problem. Mathematical Programming, 198:27-83, 2023.

  • Danny Segev. Approximation schemes for capacity-constrained assortment optimization under the Nested Logit model. Operations Research, 70(5):2820-2836, 2022.

  • Jacob Feldman and Danny Segev. The Multinomial Logit model with sequential offerings: Algorithmic frameworks for product recommendation displays. Operations Research, 70(4):2162-2184, 2022.

  • Danny Segev and Yaron Shaposhnik. A polynomial-time approximation scheme for sequential batch-testing of series systems. Operations Research, 70(2):1153-1165, 2022.

  • Antoine Desir, Vineet Goyal, Srikanth Jagabathula, and Danny Segev. Mallows-smoothed distribution over rankings approach for modeling choice. Operations Research, 69(4):1206-1227, 2021.

  • Ali Aouad and Danny Segev. Display optimization for vertically differentiated locations under multinomial logit choice preferences. Management Science, 67(6): 3519-3550, 2020.

  • Antoine Desir, Vineet Goyal, Danny Segev, and Chun Ye. Capacity constrained assortment optimization under the Markov chain based choice model. Management Science, 66(2):698-721, 2020.

Current Editorial Positions

  • Associate editor, Operations Research (Optimization area)

  • Associate editor, Management Science (Market Design, Platform, and Demand Analytics department)

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