Professor of Operations Research, Associate Dean of Business Analytics and Director of the Graduate Program in Business Analytics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dimitris Bertsimas has been teaching at MIT since 1988 and is currently the Boeing Professor of Operations Research, Associate Dean of Business Analytics and Director of the Business Analytics Graduate Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research interests include optimisation, stochastic systems, machine learning and their applications, and he has worked particularly in the fields of statistics, health care, transportation and finance.
He is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, was recipient of the INFORMS President Award, the John von Neumann theory Prize and the Frederick W. Lanchester Award, among many other research and teaching awards.
He is co-author of seven books, supervisor of 92 completed and 25 current doctoral dissertations, and co-founder of ten business analytics companies and two non-profit foundations.
He received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1985) and continued his studies at MIT with an MS in Operations Research (1997) and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research (1998).
In 1997 he received the Bodossaki Foundation’s Scientific Award in the field of Social Sciences.
