BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Georgia Perakis

Georgia Perakis is an Associate Professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She received an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research from Brown University. After graduating she was a visiting assistant professor both at the Sloan School of Management at MIT and at the Applied Math Department at Brown University. Since the summer of 1998 she joined the faculty at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, where she is currently an Associate Professor.

Georgia Perakis' research interests include revenue management, dynamic pricing, the study of auctions and competitive supply chain management. Furthermore, she studies transportation, in particular, the study of traffic in dynamic settings and as well as more generally the study of optimization and its applications in both dynamic and static settings.*

*She has received a number of awards for her research, including the CAREER/PECASE award through the National Science Foundation which is awarded by the office of the President of the United States on Science and Technology to 59 early career researchers across all fields. In the year 2002, she was the recipient of the Graduate Teaching Award for the Sloan School of Management for excellence in teaching. In the Fall of 2002, she received the Sloan Career Development Chair. Perakis has been an Associate Editor for the journal /Management Science (1998-2002), as well as for the special issue of/ Management Science /in Auctions and is currently an Area Editor in the area of Supply Chain Management and Services for the journal /Networks and Spatial Economics /and the editor in Chief for the journal of/ Pricing and Revenue Management./ Perakis was a member of the Informs Council and the chair of the /Pricing and Revenue Management Section/ of the Informs society.