Saurabh Amin
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Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant ProfessorMIT, Civil & Environmental Engineering |
Hamsa Balakrishnan
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Associate Department Head; Associate ProfessorMIT, Aeronautics & Astronautics |
Cynthia Barnhart
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Chancellor; Ford Foundation Professor of EngineeringMIT, Civil & Environmental Engineering |
Cynthia Barnhart is MIT’s Chancellor and the Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering. At MIT, she previously served as Associate and Acting Dean for the School of Engineering and co-directed the Operations Research Center and the Center for Transportation and Logistics. Her research focuses on building mathematical programming models and large-scale optimization approaches for transportation and logistics systems. Barnhart is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served as the President of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and in editorial roles for the flagship journals in her discipline.
Dimitris Bertsimas
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Boeing Professor of Operations Research; Codirector, Operations Research CenterMIT, Sloan Schoool of Management |
Dimitris Bertsimas is currently the Boeing Professor of Operations Research and the Co-director of the Operations Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1985, a MS in Operations Research at MIT in 1987, and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research at MIT in 1988. Since 1988, he has been with the MIT faculty. Since the 1990s he has started several successful companies in the areas of financial services, asset management, health care, publishing, analytics and aviation.
Daniel Bienstock
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ProfessorColumbia University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research |
Daniel Bienstock is a Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, where he has been since 1989, with joint affiliation in the departments of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering. He received the PhD at ORC in 1985 working with Tom Magnanti. His research focuses on nonconvex optimization, and on applications of mathematics and computing to power grid problems. He is an Informs Fellow and is the editor-in-chief of Mathematical Programming Computation.
Jonathan Caulkins
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H. Guyford Stever University Professor Of Operations Research And Public PolicyCarnegie Mellon University, Heinz College |
Jonathan Caulkins is the Stever University Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Jon specializes in systems analysis of problems pertaining to illicit and irregular markets including drugs, terror, violence, and their prevention – work that won the David Kershaw Award from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, a Robert Wood Johnson Health Investigator Award, and the INFORMS President’s Award. Issues surrounding marijuana legalization have been a particular focus in recent years, and his most recent book is Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know.
He has been affiliated with RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center for over 25 years, including serving as co-director from 1994 – 1996. Dr. Caulkins received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Systems Engineering from Washington University, and a masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from M.I.T.
Adam Elmachtoub
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Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchColumbia University |
Adam Elmachtoub is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, where he is also a member of the Data Science Institute. In 2014-2015, he spent one year at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center working in the area of Smarter Commerce. He previously received his B.S. degree from Cornell ORIE in 2009, and his Ph.D. from MIT ORC in 2014. In 2016, he received an IBM Faculty Award and was named Forbes 30 under 30 in science.
Dan Iancu
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Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
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Dan Iancu is an Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. A native of Romania, Prof. Iancu holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University, an S.M. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT. Prior to joining Stanford, he spent one year as a Goldstine Fellow in the Risk Analytics Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Edward Kaplan
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William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research
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Edward H. Kaplan is the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research, Public Health, and Engineering at Yale University’s School of Management. An expert in operations research, mathematical modeling and statistics, Kaplan was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine). His research in HIV prevention and counterterrorism has been recognized with the Edelman Award, Lanchester Prize, Centers for Disease Control’s Charles C. Shepard Science Award, INFORMS President’s Award, three Koopman Prizes, and numerous other awards. Kaplan was the Lady Davis Visiting Professor of medicine and of statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and also served as a visiting professor to the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Survey Research Center at UC Berkeley, Columbia’s Graduate School of Business, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. In 2014, Kaplan was elected to a three year term as INFORMS President-Elect (2015), President (2016), and Past-President (2017). For more information about Kaplan and his research, visit http://faculty.som.yale.edu/EdKaplan/.
Ilan Lobel
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Associate Professor
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Ilan Lobel is an Associate Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is interested in questions of pricing, learning and contract design in dynamic and networked markets. He serves as an Associate Editor for the journals Management Science and Operations Research. He is currently the chair-elect of the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section, and is one of the co-organizers of the annual Workshop on Marketplace Innovation. He earned his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from PUC-Rio University in Brazil and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Philip Ma
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Senior Executive & Biotechnology Entrepreneur
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Philip Ma is the Chief Business Officer and President for Seer Biosciences. Previously, he was Vice-President for Digital Health Technologies and Data Sciences at Biogen, a group that he established in 2015 to discover insights and create value for Biogen, and its patients. Prior to joining Biogen, Philip was Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he served global leaders in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, leading the West Coast Healthcare Practice and global Personalized Medicine practice for the Firm. Active in community affairs, Philip also serves on the Board of Committee of 100, a group of Chinese-American business and community leaders focused on U.S.-China relations and the Asia-American experience. Before McKinsey, Philip was a macromolecular crystallographer in the lab of Dr. Carl O. Pabo at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in Biology. Philip also has degrees in Biochemistry (A.B. from Harvard College) and in Economics (MPhil from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar).
