Binyamin Mantin, PEng

Binyamin (Benny) Mantin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

His research interests lie in the areas of Revenue Management and Pricing, Strategic Consumer Behaviour, Empirical Operations Management, Analytics, Retailing, and the Airline Industry. Professor Mantin has published several articles on topics such as price volatility and strategic consumer behavior in airline markets, Amazon’s dual-format retailing and other supply chain issues, airport privatization, and competitive portfolio investments.

• Operations management, Supply Chain Management, Dynamic pricing & Revenue management, Transportation economics, Airline industry, Application of Game theory, Marketing models, Strategic consumers

My work touches some of the multiple facets of pricing. A primary goal of my research is to to propose, from game-theoretic perspective, optimal pricing and dynamic pricing applications for firms, and to understand, by conducting empirical analysis, the actual dynamic pricing methods employed by the firms.

I am a member of INFORMS (MSOM, Marketing Science, Revenue Management and Pricing), POMS and CORS.

Reviewer for Management Science, Operations Research, European Journal of Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, Transportation Research Part E, and Flexible Services and Manufacturing. Also served as a textbook reviewer: the Canadian version of the operations management textbook "The Core", McGraw Hill.

I have been working with WestJet, a major Canadian airline. Using transacted data from the firm we have been looking into underlying patterns in consumer behavior.

• 2008, Doctorate Management Science, University of British Columbia, Canada

• 2001, Master's Management Sciences - Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel

• 1997, Bachelor's Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel

• 2001 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship

• 2003 Faculty of Graduate Studies Partial International Fee Scholarship

• 2003 Leslie G. J. Wong Memorial Scholarship

• 2005 E. D. MacPhee Memorial Fellowship

• 2006 INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium Participation

• 2006 SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Doctoral Fellowship