Nikos Trichakis

Nikolaos Trichakis and co-authors won the 2021 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management Best Paper Award (First Prize) for the paper "On the Financing Benefits of Supply Chain Transparency and Blockchain Adoption." Published in Management Science, the paper's co-authors were Jiri Chod (University of Rochester), Gerry Tsoukalas (University of Pennsylvania & Boston University), Henry Aspegren (MIT), and Mark Weber (IBM Research; MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab).

Nikos Trichakis won the INFORMS 2018 MSOM (Manufacturing and Service Operations Management) iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management) SIG (Special Interest Group) Best Paper Award. His winning paper, co-authored with Dan A. Iancu (Stanford) and Gerry Tsoukalas (Wharton), is entitled, “Is Operating Flexibility Harmful Under Debt?” (Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 6 (June 2017): 1657-2048).

Nikolaos Trichakis has won the 2020 INFORMS Koopman Prize. Along with co-authors David Simchi-Levi (MIT) and Peter Yun Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University), Trichakis was honored for the paper, “Designing Response Supply Chain Against Bioattacks.” The Koopman Prize is given for the outstanding publication in military operations research of the previous year.

Nikos Trichakis won third place for the 2018 INFORMS TIMES (Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section) Best Working Paper Award, for “Blockchain and the Value of Operational Transparency for Supply Chain Finance,” co-authored with Jiri Chod (Boston College), Gerry Tsoukalas (Wharton), Henry Aspegren (MIT MEng grad; Tsinghua University), and Mark Weber (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab).

Nikolaos Trichakis, Andrew Lo, Miro Kazakoff, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, Arathi Mehrotra, Adrien Verdelhan, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices.

The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.  

Nikos Trichakis won the 2018 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize. This award recognizes one or more outstanding paper(s) in optimization published by, or forthcoming in a refereed journal within the previous four years, authored by a young scholar (having obtained their last degree within the past eight years).  Trichakis’s winning paper, co-authored with Dan A. Iancu (Stanford), is entitled, “Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization” (Management Science, Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2014): 130-147).

Nikos Trichakis won second prize for the 2018 POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) HOCM (Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management) Best Paper Award, for “Designing Response Supply Chain Against Bioattacks,” co-authored with David Simchi-Levi and Peter Yun Zhang (both at MIT).