Operations and Information Management Department

Jacomo Corbo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Jacomo Corbo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Operations and Information Management Department at the The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Jacomo's current research includes how consumers choose media and products, how consumers' decisions are impacted on by information filters like search engines and recommender systems, and how firms can influence the process using Internet advertising and by pricing their goods appropriately. In this vein, Jacomo's work addresses how to price digital goods, how network structure and rationality affect adoption and dynamic pricing in markets with network effects, how to distribute media using P2P and other Internet overlay structures.

Jacomo is also interested in how network effects, whether construed as information flow or market structure constraints, affect strategic choices by firms and the overall systemic efficiency of markets. His research in this area centers on R&D collaboration agreements, R&D portfolio investment and project resource allocation problems, and the design of algorithms, policies, and contracts to help improve firms' decision-making.

Jacomo served as the Chief Race Strategist for the ING Renault F1 Team Ltd. between 2006 and 2008, where he led the design and development of the algorithms and computational platform driving the team's real-time race strategic analysis. He also helped devise R&D portfolio investment strategies to deal with very high uncertainty and a very competitive market landscape.

Jacomo holds a PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University, an SM in Applied Mathematics from the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a BEng in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.