Faculty & Research

Retsef Levi

Associate Professor of Operations Management

Biography | Publications

Retsef Levi's current research is focused on the design and the performance analysis of efficient algorithms for fundamental stochastic and deterministic optimization models, arising in the context of supply chains, revenue management, logistics and health care. These fundamental, multistage stochastic models are typically very hard to solve optimally, both theoretically and in practice. Hence, it is important to develop efficient heuristics that provide provably near-optimal policies for these hard models.

Levi has special interest in Cost-Balancing techniques, data-driven (sampling-based) algorithms, and modern Linear-Programming-based approximation techniques applied to models in the above domains. In addition, he is interested in stochastic and combinatorial optimization and mathematical programming in their broad definition, and especially in their intersection with problems that arise in the context of real-life applications.

Prof. Levi is affiliated with MIT's Master of Science Program in Computation for Design and Optimization.

Retsef Levi was born March 7, 1971 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He served about 12 years as an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces. In 2005, he received the Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences awarded by the Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.

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