Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo

I am a fifth-year PhD student in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. I am advised by Kris Johnson Ferreira.

My research focuses on helping human-AI collaborations translate sandbox performance into success in practice.

I am on the 2025 job market. This fall, I will attend the Wharton Empirical Operations Management Workshop (9/25-9/26), the AI in Business Conference in Columbus (10/2-10/3) and the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta (10/26-10/29).

Research

• Accuracy Obsession: Humans Prioritize Immaterial AI Accuracy Over Their Own Compensation — Unless We Educate Them
  With Kris Johnson Ferreira.
  
  
• Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration in the Presence of Outliers
  With Kris Johnson Ferreira, Maya Balakrishnan and Jordan Tong. Accepted at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
  Winner, 2024 Production and Operations Management College of Behavioral Operations Management Junior Scholar Paper Competition (INFORMS)
  
  
• Teaching AI to Handle Exceptions: Supervised Fine-Tuning with Human-Aligned Judgment
  With Harang Ju and Sinan Aral. In revision at PNAS Nexus.
  
  
• Evaluations Amid Measurement Error: Determining the Optimal Timing for Workplace Interventions
  With Iavor Bojinov and Fiammetta Menchetti. Submitted to the American Journal of Evaluation.
  
  

Works in Progress

• The Worth of Experts and Expertise in the Age of Generative Artifical Intelligence
  With Iavor Bojinov, Annika Hildebrandt, Edward McFowland III and Luca Vendraminelli.
  

Teaching

Harvard Business School

• Data Science for Managers — Required Curriculum, Fall 2023
• Data Science for Managers — First Year Elective, Fall 2022

Harvard University

• Introduction to Probability — Fall 2023, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
• Introduction to Stochastic Processes — Spring 2017
• Introduction to Statistical Inference — Spring 2016
• Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Economics — Spring 2015, Fall 2014

Awards

Certificate of Special Recognition from the Harvard Undergraduate Association (Fall 2023),
Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (6× winner, Fall 2014–Spring 2017),
2016 David Pickard Teaching Fellow in the Harvard Statistics Department.

Full reviews can be found here.

Selected Student Reviews

"Legitimately the most effective and enthusiastic teaching fellow I have ever experienced at Harvard. Funny, helpful, and dedicated, Matt is one of those people whose sheer quality will outshine the overall memory of the class. Any class with Matt as a TF is a safe choice for me."

"Matt was a critical addition to this course and left behind a really powerful legacy. I hope someone will come into this course with the same enthusiasm and care that he committed. When I started going to his sections, the material was 100% illuminated. He clearly cared about our success, and I appreciated everything he did to help us."

"Without a doubt the best section leader I have ever had. His instruction was what helped me understand difficult concepts and his materials are incredibly impressive. He's incredibly personal and accessible and phenomenal overall."

"Matt is the best TF I've ever had. Period. He works incredibly hard to do the homeworks before students, hold useful sections, and make material seem understandable. He is also fun to talk to and approachable. I really look up to Matt as a TF and as a student. He represents some of the best that Harvard has to offer."