Dimitris Bertsimas is currently the Boeing Professor of Operations Research at the Sloan School of Management and 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 MIT's Sloan School of Management.

His main research interests include discrete optimization, stochastic and dynamic optimization, analysis and control of stochastic systems, computational statistics and applications of Operations Research in finance and e-commerce. He has published widely and he is currently the area editor of Operations Research in Financial Engineering. He has co-authored (with John Tsitsiklis) graduate level textbooks ``Introduction to Linear Optimization'' (Athena Scientific, 1997), and (with Robert Freund) Data, Models, and Decisions: The Fundamendals of Management Science'' (Southwestern College Publishing, 2000).

His awards include the Erlang prize (1996), the SIAM prize in optimization (1996), the Bodossaki prize (1998), being a finalist for the Edelman award (1998), the Presidential Young Investigator award (1991-1996), and the Nicholson prize (1988).