Thomas Magnanti is one of fourteen Institute Professors at MIT and former Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. He has devoted much of his professional career to education that combines engineering and management and to teaching and research in applied and theoretical aspects of large-scale optimization. As Dean, he focused on educational innovation, industrial and international partnerships, technology-based entrepreneurship, diversity, and innovation in emerging domains such as bioengineering, tiny technologies, information engineering, and engineering systems. He was previously president of three professional societies and editor of a leading technical journal in his field. He has received numerous educational and research awards and honorary degrees and currently serves on several corporate and university boards. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to Directing SMART, he is currently leading an initiative to develop an extension of MIT’s OpenCourseWare tailored for high schools.
