Research

Ongoing

Too Many Papers to Review: When Less Is More Rigel Galgana, Farrell Wu.

Private and Social Interview Design Rigel Galgana, Sivakorn Sanguanmoo, Sitta Tantikul, Farrell Wu.

Unwinnable Auctions: Convergence of Mean Based Learning Dynamics Rigel Galgana, Tao Lin, Weiqiang Zheng.

Moneyless Resource Allocation with Heterogeneous Durations Rigel Galgana, Negin Golrezaei, Yifeng Teng. Soon to be submitted to Operations Research

Under Review

Robust Multi-Item Demand Autobidding Auctions Rigel Galgana, Negin Golrezaei, Yifeng Teng. Job Market Paper (Under Review at Management Science)

Gap-Based Learning in Multi-Unit Markets
Rigel Galgana, Negin Golrezaei. Under Review at Operations Research

Weak Mean Based Algorithms
Rigel Galgana, Zezheng Lyu. Under Review at AIStats

Best Response Convergence Rigel Galgana. Under Review at ICLR

Learning Augmented Budget Constrained First-Price Auctions Rigel Galgana, Sourav Sahoo. Under Review at WebConf

Publications

The Risk and Rewards of User Expressiveness in Revenue-Driven Recommendation Yeganeh Alimohammadi, Rigel Galgana, Negin Golrezaei. NeurIPS MLxOR Workshop 2026

Learning in Repeated Multi-unit Pay-as-Bid Auctions Rigel Galgana, Negin Golrezaei. Published in _Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2024_

Computing Boundary Crossing Probabilities of General Empirical Processes
Rigel Galgana, Amy Greenwald, Takehiro Oyakawa. Published in _SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA23)_

A Dynamic Program for Computing the Joint Cumulative Distribution Function of Order Statistics
Rigel Galgana, Amy Greenwald, Takehiro Oyakawa, Cengke Shi.
Published in _SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA21)_

Other

Calibrating the Search: Valid Inference for LLM-Driven Alpha Mining
Rigel Galgana, Zezheng Lyu. Under Review at AIStats

Exact Expressions of Entropy for Classical Non-interacting Many-body Systems Rigel Galgana, Henrik Heelweg, Yuheng Wu. Pre-print

Efficient Algorithms to Sample from Order Statistic Distributions
Cyrus Cousins, Rigel Galgana, Shamay Samuel. Pre-print

Optimal Reserve Price Estimation in the Generalized First and Second Price Auctions with Best Response Dynamics
Completed 2020-05-22. Rigel Galgana, Amy Greenwald (Thesis Advisor). Undergraduate Thesis