Alexandre Belloni is an Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006) and a M.Sc. in Mathematical Economics from IMPA (2002). He deferred the offer to join the faculty at Duke University to accept the IBM Herman Goldstein Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-2007). Professor Belloni’s research interests are on optimization and statistics and on their applications to Economics and Business. His current research focuses on developing and analyzing methods for model selection in Econometric problems, and for solving Mechanism Design problems. He received the 2007 Young Researchers Competition in Continuous Optimization Award and the second prize at the INFORMS 2006 George Nicholson Student Paper Award.

 

His research papers have appeared in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, and Annals of Statistics. He has received a grant from the National Science Foundation and has held visiting appointments in other prestigious institutes. He has consulted with the electrical energy industry in Brazil. His recent teaching has been on statistics.