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 research interests include optimization, stochastic systems,
data mining and their application. He has published widely and
he is area editor in Operations
Research and associate editor for Mathematics of Operations Research.
He has co-authored the following books:
``Introduction to Linear Optimization'' (with J. Tsitsiklis, Athena Scientific,
1997), ``Data, models and decisions'' (with R. Freund, Dynamic Ideas, 2004)
and ``Optimization over Integers'' (with R. Weismantel, Dynamic Ideas, 2005).
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and he
has received numerous research awards including the Erlang prize
(1996), the SIAM prize in optimization (1996), the Bodossaki prize
(1998) and the Presidential Young Investigator award (1991-1996).
